“I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed“. This quote by the American writer Gertrude Stein has a lot to teach us. Looking at a portrait or a picture of someone or something always imparts us with more details than what even the best writers can’t supply through their writings. A picture gives you the “complete whole” of a thing and you can look for any detail that you like in it. A writer, due to limits of space, will always have to skimp on some things. True it is and always will be – A picture is worth a thousand words.

Colored portraits, pencil sketches, digital photographs, all have their own distinct qualities and different people prefer different photographic methods to suit their needs and requirements. Although in this time and age more and more people go for digital photography but hand made portraits and sketches still have their place. Perhaps the strongest reason is that portraits have been raised to the level of royalty because of the works of Leonardo da Vinci and Rafael. Portraits are considered more “classy” than digital pictures and perhaps this is the reason why people belonging to the royalty still prefer to get themselves portrayed.

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