Art - Portrait

Art - Portraits:

Drawing faces.  We want to eventually draw a portrait. In order to prepare we need to learn the skills to sketching faces.  We will need the same style of pencil lines we used to create our flowers.  As well develop the skills to draw essential components of a portrait like eyes, nose, lips etc.

The focus today is how to draw a realistic eye (Tools; pencil, eraser, black pencil crayon):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ9Hpp8JygI

Today we are only going to work in our scrapbooks developing the skills to sketch a portrait.

A finished eye will be handed in next week.

Lets emphasize that we are not tracing. 

 

Here is an eye to sketch:

 

Your eye drawing is due Thursday December 22 

The Nose: 

The next item we want to practice drawing before our self portrait is the nose.  Check out this video and practice:

 

Notice the use of shading and building up the shape of the nose.  There is almost no solid pencil lines.  Rather 4 simple solid strokes and then shading.

The tools you will need are a pencil, eraser, and black pencil crayon.

1. Sketch and pratice sketching noses in your scrap book.  You can copy the nose from the video or use either one of the pictures.

2. Check in with teacher.

3. Begin good copy on card stock paper.

Due Monday January 16

The Lips and Mouth:

 

http://www.artyfactory.com/portraits/drawing_techniques/drawing_the_mouth.htm

The Ear:

http://www.ehow.com/video_4979369_draw-ear.html

 

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