"This is habitual work, but if the expression is realistic, one feels the drawing has spirit." Ninety-three-year-old portrait master Huang Ching-shan of Tainan feels that portraiture should be painted in such a way that when the viewer stands in a position the subject should seem to be watching, but when the viewer shifts to another position, the subject should still be watching.
「這是工作習慣，不過眼神若是有像，感覺這張圖就有神了」，台南的九十三歲老畫師黃靜山覺得，畫像要畫到我走到這邊，畫中人在看我；我走到那邊，畫中人還是在看我，那才是一張傳神的畫像。