On portraits, check on the details like chin, mouth, ears and eyes, doubling often also occur on these areas.
The Tudors are great, but the Duke of Buckingham (George Villiers, the favorite of James I) is my favorite 'over the top portrait.' Check the picture below, but know it is nothing compared to seeing this huge portrait in person.
Take a look at some of Lassée's moving portraits below and check out the full series on her website here.
Check out Portrait of Colours below: .
For more incredible portraits by teen photographers, check out 18-year-old Brendon Burton's hauntingly beautiful self-portraits created each day of the year as part of his "365 Project" and Spanish photographer Christina Otero's whimsical self-portraits with fruit.
Her canvas is a small nugget of acrylic, and Annette Kirszrot will work on it for an hour, painting a portrait smaller than a dime, checking back and forth between her work and the person sitting a few feet away in her examining chair.
For guidance on topics such as camera handling, after-dark photography, portraits or experimental processes, check out the summer courses on offer at Shoot Experience (shootexperience.com) and Central Saint Martins (csm.arts.ac.uk) in London, Stills (stills.org/courses) in Edinburgh and ffotogallery (ffotogallery.org/courses) in Cardiff.
Check out portraits comprised of cabbage, raw meat, and spiders below.
Check with your school to see who is doing the Senior Portraits in town, and check them out.
In the making of my books, Switch and Queer Portraits 2006 2015, I checked in with everyone who appears in them, and for legal reasons, I have to use model releases for images being published.
After the narrator finishes her portrait, she steps back to check her work and is horrified to discover that the face she has painted is her own.
