Portrait Art

There's a reason portrait work is so hard to do well – you're not just capturing a subject, you're capturing a relationship. Between photographer and subject, between light and skin, between a person and the version of themselves they're willing to show.

This round of ArtHelper Selects is open to all mediums: photography, painting, drawing, digital, mixed media. If a person is the subject, it's in.

📌 HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR ART

Leave a comment on this thread with an image of your best piece for the category!

One image per person. If you submit more than one, the extras will be removed. Choose your best! 🙂

📌 HOW VOTING WORKS

Anyone can vote! Just hit the upvote button on the entries you love most. The image with the most votes when the contest closes wins.

End Date: April 15, 2026

📌 WHAT THE WINNER GETS

👑 A crown badge displayed next to their name in ArtHelper to show off the win!

🌟 The winning image shared on the ArtHelper Instagram! (22k+ followers)

Fun perks for the winner aside, ArtHelper Selects is really just about celebrating all the amazing work coming from our community. Let’s make this thread uplifting and supportive for everyone participating! 

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I painted this portrait several years ago. At that time, I only painted portraits. Then I decided to do floral paintings. From time to time, I do a portrait.

This woman, having a wealthy husband and everything that an ordinary woman needs for a quiet life - a house, a car, providing for children..., from the first days of the russists occupation became an operating surgery nurse at a stabilization point a few kilometers from the front line... Now she continues to actually live underground (the stabilization point is buried 6 meters so that enemy artillery does not interfere with continuous operations) to save the lives of heroic Ukrainian soldiers...

This is a detail from one of my late husband David Delamare's portraits.

"Ophelia was painting in oil on an 18x24-inch canvas.

I posted an essay in the "Creative Process" group that discusses what we sought in models and what it was like to work with this particular model/muse.

C’est un dessin que j’ai fait il y a plusieurs années . Je la trouve triste mais belle.

Does familiarity with your subject help or hurt the final result?

I don’t consider myself an experienced portrait artist, but I get requested for them a lot so I’ve been practicing. Doing portraits makes me really nervous, but I was really happy with how this one turned out. My favorite part is the Granny squares because I also like to crochet. I really liked how the jean shorts turned out to with the frayed edges.

Acrylic on canvas