Draw your own facial features as accurately as possible. Draw each feature (eye, mouth, nose, ear) three times, from different angles and with different expressions. Draw from life (mirror), NOT photographs. Draw large, fitting two or three features on each page of your 11 x 14" sketchbook.
Objectives:
These are to be careful contour line drawings, not rough sketches. Where you feel it is needed to establish form/structure/three-dimensionality, you may use some tonal value ("shading"), but this is not a requirement.
Materials:
Objectives:
- Develop Observational Skills
- Accuracy of Line
- Accuracy of Proportion
- Good Likeness
These are to be careful contour line drawings, not rough sketches. Where you feel it is needed to establish form/structure/three-dimensionality, you may use some tonal value ("shading"), but this is not a requirement.
Materials:
- Mirror(s) - two mirrors will be helpful in getting different angles/viewpoints
- 11 x 14" sketchbook
- Drawing pencil (preferably Ebony pencil)
- Eraser