The plastic artist, a member of the Culture and Arts Association in Al-Baha, Abeer Al-Ghamdi, explained that her love for portraiture began after watching artists who created drawings with great skill.

She pointed out that the camera was not available in the past to preserve for history those inspiring faces and legendary personalities, but there were skillful hands who were good at portraiture, embodying those features and details as they are in reality, but rather augmenting them with the beauty of expression appropriate to the scene and situation, and honesty in feeling.

Al-Ghamdi said in her interview with Al-Watan: "With the development of this art and its continuation to the present time, I was confident that I would fail to embark on the actual portrait drawing experience, as I was only able to draw simple sketches that often lack accuracy and detail."

And she confirms that because of that illusion, she put a barrier between her and that type of plastic art, saying, "Whenever I see a 'portrait' drawn by any artist, I attract the pen, but I quickly set it aside."

Al-Ghamdi indicated that portrait drawings became attractive to her, but she did not like to implement them deeply, rather they were just lost and fast features in free time only, and after a while she had a good artistic stock and a good visual culture - as she put it - as she changed the idea of inability to implement portraits into mastery with practice and will.

Abeer explains that she put herself in a challenge, and was able to succeed. The portrait of Maysoon, her younger sister, was the key to the way. After that, she executed a portrait of her father, and the results were satisfactory, but she did not continue, so she moved away from this art a little until one of her friends asked her to implement a "portrait" for her to present as a gift. Indeed, she did so, and it was an amazing result, after which she carried out many requests to draw the portrait.

She says, "During my undergraduate level and in my actual beginnings in the field of art, I was honored to draw a portrait of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques after his return to the homeland from the medical trip, and it was good and I won the second place award in the University Knights competition at Al-Baha University 2011, but I found high capabilities in portrait art when I was nominated to participate in the convoy of tomorrow's youth to meet Mecca 2012 and under the guidance of the Director of Al-Baha University, Dr. Makkah Al-Mukarramah Region Prince Khaled Al-Faisal for honoring the convoy party.

And she added, "At that time, I had the freedom of choice, so I did not find anything more beautiful than drawing a portrait of the prince, and I challenged myself to complete the work and make the image close to reality, so I chose a picture of him speaking on one occasion, and it was executed as required, and the result was excellent, thanks to God, as I consider it one of my most important and powerful works in the art of portraiture."

Abeer confirms that she truly loved this art and found it close to herself, as she found in it a beautiful and wonderful feeling when she conveys the features of a person with her simple tools, her high sense, and the expression she adds to the work.

She said, "The field is not limited to copying, but to what is more than that. The sight of that revolutionary woman and her tears that were spilled from the oppression of the tyrant and the oppression of the difficult circumstances in the Syrian revolution pained me, until I found her in moments of a sad scene embodied in charcoal pencils on that white paper."