For this project, everything was left for us (the students) to choose. We had to choose the medium, technique, and subject of whatever we wanted to do. I decided to do a portrait, since I'd never really tried to draw faces before. Since this was my first real attempt at a portrait I stuck with graphite, a medium I was already familiar with. I also chose to do a picture of myself when I was a toddler to make it more personal. I think that for the first portrait I've seriously attempted, it turned out pretty well. It was really challenging to get all the different values to work, since the reference photo I used was pretty high contrast. The hair itself took me at least two class periods to get how I wanted it. I ended up altering some aspects of the reference picture to make the drawing look better, but it still ended up looking pretty close to the real photo. Overall, I'm really pleased with how it turned out, but I don't plan to draw another portrait for a while.
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sands
2/17/2016 05:03:44 am
Perfect! Your dedication really paid off. I also like that you used a personal image.
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A Lil InfoThis is all of my art from Art Three, which I took second semester of my second year of high school. In this class I had the most laid back art teacher I've ever had before, and I really took that opportunity to explore different styles, subjects, and mediums. When my teacher moved mid-semester and we got a substitute who has been through art school and worked as an illustrator, it was a really awesome learning experience, and I found myself growing as an artist even more. Archives
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