Pretest: Here is my first drawing of my self. It was very interesting. I have never been good at drawing faces that look realistic. So when I heard we were doing this project I got really nervous because I knew how bad I was at drawing these types of features, but I was also very excited because I would now be learning how to do a good self portrait and have everything look realistic.
Facial Feature Challenge. Here is my facial feature challenge. I chose a few looks like I enjoyed and a few that just looked like they would be interesting to draw or different from the other features I had already chosen. I think the hardest two features on this page were the eyes on the very left that are really wide and open. I think these we a harder feature to draw because to draw eyes the pupils are usually al the way down to both top and bottom of the eye ball. (Hopefully that makes sense) So when I was drawing these I noticed they weren't quite like that. There was some white showing on both sides. I think you had said though that the eye balls go all the way down and up unless the person looks like they are in shock, so that is probably why. The next features that was the most challenging for me was the nose that is being shown from the side. The view was really interesting for me. I guess when you do a self portrait it is most of the time facing forward but I just thought it would be interesting to do a the perspective from the side so that is why I chose that cut out. I know we also talked about different types of self portraits and the very first portraits started out as being side views and they eventually changed over time. It was very hard to draw, I had to try a few different things until I sort of made it look like at least a nose. :) The facial feature challenge was very fun. My favorite ones to draw were the hair because it was so wavy and fun looking, and also the duck lip.
Final Selfie.
This was so much fun. I know I could do better the next time I do it since I have learned and experienced different techniques from doing this project. This project was very complicated, but once I got the hang of it and got all my grid lines in it was much easier to get the proportions right. I missed a few days so thats why it was also a little harder but with Mrs. Hein help I got caught uo and got everything figured out. I am not sure how much it actually looks like me though, I think I kind of struggled with that a lot.
This was so much fun. I know I could do better the next time I do it since I have learned and experienced different techniques from doing this project. This project was very complicated, but once I got the hang of it and got all my grid lines in it was much easier to get the proportions right. I missed a few days so thats why it was also a little harder but with Mrs. Hein help I got caught uo and got everything figured out. I am not sure how much it actually looks like me though, I think I kind of struggled with that a lot.