Magazine Features!
(Part 1) Let's practice some features of the face! Cut out an eye, nose, mouth, and ear, and glue into your art book. In pencil, replicate them, doing your best to draw the features correctly and accurately, as well as the full shading.
(Part 2) To familiarize yourself with drawing a portrait, you will trace a portrait in three separate ways on tracing paper: First, you will contour the face without picking up drawing pencil. (5 min.) Second, you will contour the face only using straight lines created by a ruler. (5 min.) Third, you will only fill in the shapes using the value scale we just created. (5 min.) Use one piece of tracing paper for all 3.
Magazine Faces!
Now that you've become familiar with facial features, practice drawing faces from models in magazines. Follow the steps in your handout to create your drawing!
Value Portrait!
Learning to use a grid to transfer and/or enlarge images is one of the most useful tools I have ever personally learned. Using the grid method ensures that your proportions are as close to the originals as possible, and helps break down the image into smaller components, thus preventing the artist from getting overwhelmed and lost. The grid method allows the artist be meticulous and capture every component there is to an image, ensuring a more successful likeness to the original. If realism is your aim, use a grid! For this project, pick a photo (a portrait= shoulders up) of either yourself, family, friend, or even a celebrity that you want to draw. The photo MUST be 4X6.
Rubric:
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Be drawn from a black and white, 4X6 portrait (10 points)
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Properly enlarged using grid method resulting in correct facial proportions (25 points)
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Shading- definite darks, middles, lights (25 points)
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No white showing in the background, paper is not wrinkled, is clean, and well preserved (10 points)
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Appropriate use of class time, careful use of materials (10 points)
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Give appropriate and helpful feedback to classmates during critique
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Completion of thoughtful self-evaluation (10 points)
Total = 100 points