How to develop a professional portfolio
Having a strong and artistic portfolio can help you get your work and yourself noticed and help you move, you and your artistic career forward. Here are some interesting ways of presenting your work…
Giacomo Burattini
Giacomo Burattini: “I am an artist from Italy and I draw mostly portraits and urban landscapes. I use graphite pencils. My hyperrealist work begins by drawing from a photo but my work amplifies what is not normally seen, uncovering a hidden feeling or aspect making it almost diverse to the original photo.”
International Artists Competition Landscape
Be sure to enter this art competition of the International Artist if you like drawing and painting landscapes. Artists from all over the world can join in this art competition. You could win art awards, subscriptions to art magazines and be featured in the International Artist magazine.
Concord Prize
If you like listening to music while you create your art work, then perhaps you will be inspired by this art cometition – the Concord Prize. Select a piece of music from their music list and start creating… There is a great prize to win!
Chiamonwu Joy
Chiamonwu Joy from Lagos in Nigeria: “I love drawing or painting Humans. And I love to dress them up traditionally, to look like the African historical figures I want to portray in them. Because that has always been my focus and where my fascination lives.” see her work and read here art story…
3 Color Portrait Drawing
Ken Goshen, a popular artist from New York in the USA, specialises in realism. This workshop demonstrates the process of drawing a masterpiece portrait using the classical 3-color (“Tricolor”) dry media palette: charcoal, white chalk, and red chalk. Learn more about the online art course here…