Explain the process you went through to develop your drawing.
I decided I wanted to have a picture that didn't show any emotion that way I could learn to draw my features without any emotion. I decided to just look straight into the camera and take a picture with my hair in my face. I wanted to keep my hair because it kinda defines me and helps you realize that its me since its wavy/curly.
Explain how you found the different values in the portrait?
I found values by making my hair dark and the values around my neck were darker because in the picture they're pretty dark. Because we didn't have any major lighting there wasn't really any dramatic shading or lighting so I made the face as shaded and highlighted as i could without it being too much.
Did you achieve a full range of the different values within your portrait? How?
I think I did achieve a full range of values because I have the dark darks in the neck and I have the lights in the face, there's also lots of midtones in the face and hair, while at the same time the hair has darks and lights. I think some of the areas could have been darker but I got the charcoal as dark as I could. Overall I like the highlights and shadows I got in the face and the hair.
Describe your craftsmanship. Is the artwork executed and crafted neatly?How were you able to capture your look?
This was the second time I've done a self portrait but this is the first time I've done a drawing portrait, I think its crafted neatly for the first time drawing a self portrait. obviously practice makes perfect and my first drawing portrait isn't gonna be the best thing in the entire world. I was able to capture my look through making it as close to the picture as i could. I think something is still a little off with it but I cant exactly tell what it is.
Explain how you made sure you had correct facial feature placement.
I used the eye technique, so each feature is a certain amount of eyes down or up your face. I think this works well for a generic face but for your own face not everything is symmetrical like a generic portrait. I used the eye technique on the picture and marked where everything was based off my eye then transferred that to the actual drawing.
Explain the importance of learning how to draw all the features individually.
It's important to learn all the features individually because you learn the generic shape of each feature and then you edit the feature to fit you and your face. With learning the them individually it helps get the correct genetic shape so that its easier to edit them to your face.
What part of this unit was the most beneficial and why?
Learning each step separately and them combining them all together. I think this was the most beneficial because it helps you figure out what each feature is suppose to look like and then you take your own features and learn how to draw them individually and all the shading then when you combine it, it makes it so much easier because you know what it's suppose to look like.
List any obstacles you had to overcome and how you dealt with them.
Hair was an obstacle, we didn't learn to draw in individually we just went right into it so it was hard to figure out. The first section of hair i ended up erasing because it didn't look realistic or have the right movement.
I decided I wanted to have a picture that didn't show any emotion that way I could learn to draw my features without any emotion. I decided to just look straight into the camera and take a picture with my hair in my face. I wanted to keep my hair because it kinda defines me and helps you realize that its me since its wavy/curly.
Explain how you found the different values in the portrait?
I found values by making my hair dark and the values around my neck were darker because in the picture they're pretty dark. Because we didn't have any major lighting there wasn't really any dramatic shading or lighting so I made the face as shaded and highlighted as i could without it being too much.
Did you achieve a full range of the different values within your portrait? How?
I think I did achieve a full range of values because I have the dark darks in the neck and I have the lights in the face, there's also lots of midtones in the face and hair, while at the same time the hair has darks and lights. I think some of the areas could have been darker but I got the charcoal as dark as I could. Overall I like the highlights and shadows I got in the face and the hair.
Describe your craftsmanship. Is the artwork executed and crafted neatly?How were you able to capture your look?
This was the second time I've done a self portrait but this is the first time I've done a drawing portrait, I think its crafted neatly for the first time drawing a self portrait. obviously practice makes perfect and my first drawing portrait isn't gonna be the best thing in the entire world. I was able to capture my look through making it as close to the picture as i could. I think something is still a little off with it but I cant exactly tell what it is.
Explain how you made sure you had correct facial feature placement.
I used the eye technique, so each feature is a certain amount of eyes down or up your face. I think this works well for a generic face but for your own face not everything is symmetrical like a generic portrait. I used the eye technique on the picture and marked where everything was based off my eye then transferred that to the actual drawing.
Explain the importance of learning how to draw all the features individually.
It's important to learn all the features individually because you learn the generic shape of each feature and then you edit the feature to fit you and your face. With learning the them individually it helps get the correct genetic shape so that its easier to edit them to your face.
What part of this unit was the most beneficial and why?
Learning each step separately and them combining them all together. I think this was the most beneficial because it helps you figure out what each feature is suppose to look like and then you take your own features and learn how to draw them individually and all the shading then when you combine it, it makes it so much easier because you know what it's suppose to look like.
List any obstacles you had to overcome and how you dealt with them.
Hair was an obstacle, we didn't learn to draw in individually we just went right into it so it was hard to figure out. The first section of hair i ended up erasing because it didn't look realistic or have the right movement.