Project Description:
Using your graphite drawing pencil, draw a traditional self-portrait from a 3/4 angle (side of head, both eyes, side of nose, one ear showing)
The drawing must include your head, neck, and shoulder, and take up a full page of your sketchbook.
It must be from a mirror, not a photograph.
Spend time on realistic neck, collar, shirt/shoulders
Set yourself up in front of a mirror, with your face turned at a 3/4 angle to the mirror. With a light pencil line (using an HB or 2B pencil), rough out the general proportions of your head, neck and shoulders. Then, as you become more confident of your accuracy of the direction of line and the proportions, use a darker pencil and a heavier mark for some of your lines.
Medium:
Ebony pencil, or other graphite drawing pencils
Objectives:
Graded on:
To Start:
Using your graphite drawing pencil, draw a traditional self-portrait from a 3/4 angle (side of head, both eyes, side of nose, one ear showing)
The drawing must include your head, neck, and shoulder, and take up a full page of your sketchbook.
It must be from a mirror, not a photograph.
Spend time on realistic neck, collar, shirt/shoulders
Set yourself up in front of a mirror, with your face turned at a 3/4 angle to the mirror. With a light pencil line (using an HB or 2B pencil), rough out the general proportions of your head, neck and shoulders. Then, as you become more confident of your accuracy of the direction of line and the proportions, use a darker pencil and a heavier mark for some of your lines.
Medium:
Ebony pencil, or other graphite drawing pencils
Objectives:
- Accurately render facial structure and features
- Hone technical skills with the medium
Graded on:
- Likeness
- Accuracy of proportion,
- Accuracy of contour line;
- Quality of line (dark, light, thin, thick as necessary);
- Indication of form via value;
To Start:
- Study portraits by the following artists: Kathe Kollwitz, Vincent Van Gogh, and Rembrandt van Rijn.
- Study the human skull.
- Start with a light pencil line (using an HB or 2B pencil), rough out the general proportions of your head, neck and shoulders. Then, as you become more confident of your accuracy of the direction of line and the proportions, use a darker pencil and a heavier mark for some of your lines.