Here's something we should all totally get behind: strangers drawing strangers' Facebook profile pictures. Called Selfless Portraits, it's an incredible art project that allows random people to draw other random people's profile pics, and collects them all in a gallery of side-by-side portraits. Some of them are wonderful. Others are bonkers. All of them are awesome. Read More >>

At first glance, these portraits (part of a series called "Constellation") by New York-based artist Kumi Yamashita might appear to be black and white photographs, or pen-and-ink drawings, but they are in fact made of materials far less germane to the fine art of portraiture. Read More >>

I went through oral surgery more than a month ago and I still have nightmares featuring the cracks deep inside my skull as my dentist struggled to break a huge molar. Again. And again. And again. That's why these kids' before and after portraits make me cringe—but also laugh. Read More >>

This is a really great portrait photography trick that requires no special equipment: use a black marble to see how the light hits on the eyes of the person you want to photograph: Read More >>

Self-portraitist clickflashwhirr has been snapping shots of her mug every day for over a year — and that's nothing new on the net. But averaging 500 of those snaps into one artificial face? Beautifully creepy. Read More >>