Rulers of the World

The next few months, I’ll be doing the portraits of all the Rulers of the World – I’ll update this site with a link each time!

Here’s a list of what I think should be all countries of the world (242 in total). I got them from this site
If there’s one missing please tell me!

Who should I draw next? Please post any requests in the commentary-section below!

Afghanistan
Albania   358 Portrait of Bujar Nishani
Algeria
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola   374 Portrait of José Eduardo dos Santos
Anguilla
Antarctica
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba   333 Portrait of Mike Eman
Australia   349 Portrait of Tony Abbott (and the senator: 352 Portrait of Scott Ludlam )
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh   332 Portrait of Abdul Hamid
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium   386 Portrait of Charles Michel
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan   346 Portrait of Tshering Tobgay
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei Darussalam
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi   341 Portrait of Pierre Nkurunziza
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada     Canada
Cape Verde
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
Chad  367 Portrait of Idriss Déby
Chile
China
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Colombia   337 Portrait of Juan Manuel Santos
Comoros
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa)
Congo, Republic of (Brazzaville)
Cook Islands
Costa Rica    356 Portrait of Luis Guillermo Solís
Ivory Coast
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus 419 Portrait of Nicos Anastasiades
Czech Republic   364 Portrait of Miloš Zeman
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
East Timor (Timor-Leste)
Ecuador
Egypt   360 Portrait of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia    331 Portrait of Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Ethiopia
Falkland Islands
Faroe Islands
Fiji
Finland    357 Portrait of Sauli Niinistö
France
French Guiana
French Polynesia
French Southern Territories
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia   368 Portrait of Giorgi Margvelashvili
Germany   396 Portrait of Angela Merkel
Ghana
Gibraltar
Great Britain    326 Portrait of David Cameron
Greece     Grèce
Greenland
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guam   334 Portrait of Eddie Calvo
Guatemala
Guinea     Guinéee
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras   373 Portrait of Juan Orlando Hernández
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India   348 Portrait of Pranab Mukherjee
Indonesia   343 Portrait of Joko Widodo
Iran (Islamic Republic of)   376 Portrait of Hassan Rouhani
Iraq    359 Portrait of Muhammad Fuad Masum
Ireland   353 Portrait of Michael D. Higgins
Israel
Italy
Jamaica   377 Portrait of Portia Simpson-Miller
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati    327 Portrait of Anote Tong
Korea, Democratic People’s Rep. (North Korea)
Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Lao, People’s Democratic Republic
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho    328 Portrait of Tom Thabane
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macau   370 Portrait of Fernando Chui
Macedonia, Rep. of
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia    336 Portrait of Najib Razak
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Martinique
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mayotte   345 Portrait of Daniel Zaïdani
Mexico   350 Portrait of Enrique Peña Nieto
Micronesia, Federal States of
Moldova, Republic of
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Montserrat    366 Portrait of Donaldson Romeo
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar, Burma
Namibia
Nauru   335 Portrait of Baron Waqa
Nepal
Netherlands   351 Portrait of Mark Rutte
Netherlands Antilles
New Caledonia
New Zealand    354 Portrait of John Key
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Niue   344 Portrait of Toke Talagi
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau   372 Portrait of Tommy Remengesau
Palestinian territories
Panama   424 Portrait of Juan Carlos Varela
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru    338 Portrait of Ollanta Humala
Philippines
Pitcairn Island
Poland     Pologne
Portugal   371 Portrait of Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Reunion Island
Romania   347 Portrait of Klaus Iohannis
Russian Federation 748 Portrait of Vladimir Putin
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines   387 Portrait of Ralph Gonsalves
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Scotland    330 Portrait of Nicola Sturgeon
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
Slovenia    340 Portrait of Borut Pahor
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Spain     Espagne
Sri Lanka
Sudan     Soudan
Suriname   342 Portrait of Dési Bouterse
Swaziland
Sweden   355 Portrait of Stefan Löfven
Switzerland
Syria, Syrian Arab Republic
Taiwan (Republic of China)
Tajikistan   380 Portrait of Emomalii Rahmon
Tanzania; officially the United Republic of Tanzania
Thailand
Tibet
Timor-Leste (East Timor)
Togo
Tokelau
Tonga   339 Portrait of ʻAkilisi Pohiva
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey 746 Portrait of Recep  Tayyip Erdogan
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu   365 Portrait of Enele Sopoaga
Uganda
Ukraine   388 Portrait of Petro Poroshenko
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States   329 Portrait of Barack Obama
Uruguay
Uzbekistan   392 Portrait of Islam Karimov
Vanuatu
Vatican City State (Holy See)
Venezuela
Vietnam   363 Portrait of Trương Tấn Sang
Virgin Islands (British)
Virgin Islands (U.S.)
Wallis and Futuna Islands
Western Sahara     Sahara Occidental
Yemen   362 Portrait of Mohammed Ali al-Houthi
Zambia
Zimbabwe

121 thoughts on “Rulers of the World”

  1. Your art is great. I came here from one of my beautiful blogger friends, dear Tom’s blog ( http://catsatthebar.org/ ) Nice to meet you Thomas. Good Luck for your artful days, and projects. This is one of them, should be, and made me excited now. I can see that you haven’t found anything yet for my country, Turkey! If you wish you can make a portrait of Ataturk, he is our Founder of Modern Turkey. … 19 May 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish army officer, reformist statesman, and the first President of Turkey. You can find his photographs on Google search. Thank you, with my love, nia

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    • Hi thanks a lot! I’ll think of making Ataturk’s portrait – But for this series i normally do the current president/prime minister. Maybe I’ll do both, for i know the significance that Ataturk has had to modern day Turkey

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  2. Your art is great. I came here from one of my beautiful blogger friends, dear Tom’s blog ( http://catsatthebar.org/ ) Nice to meet you Thomas. Good Luck for your artful days, and projects. This is one of them, should be, and made me excited now. I can see that you haven’t found anything yet for my country, Turkey! If you wish you can make a portrait of Ataturk, he is our Founder of Modern Turkey. … 19 May 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish army officer, reformist statesman, and the first President of Turkey. You can find his photographs on Google search. Thank you, with my love, nia

    Reply
    • Hi thanks a lot! I’ll think of making Ataturk’s portrait – But for this series i normally do the current president/prime minister. Maybe I’ll do both, for i know the significance that Ataturk has had to modern day Turkey

      Reply

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