How much did you know about drawing portraits before we started? Before we started drawing ourselfs I have never tried tried to draw a person or portraits.
What process did you go through to produce this piece? First we took pictures of ourselves then traced the picture on a piece of cardboard, then used charcoal pencils to outline and and put in details we saw in our reference photo.
In what ways have you gotten better at this kind of work? In what ways can you improve? The way to get better at doing these portraits in to do more of them and I think the way I could improve is by putting in more and darker shadows because in the ones that I did put in I didn’t want to get to dark and mess it up.
How do you feel about this piece of work? What parts of it do you particularly like? Dislike? Why? What did/do you enjoy about this piece or work? I think I did well on my piece I just could have gone darker in some places. I like the way my left eye is and not my right just because it was harder to do that one because of the way the cardboard was. I also wish I went darker or more grey in the hood part of the sweatshirt. One part that I really think came out the way I wanted was my nose and my eye brows.
Did you do your work the way other people did theirs? In what ways did you do it differently? In what ways was your work or process similar? I think I ddi my very similar to other people; however, the thing that I did a little different was using the charcoal pencil to put in more fine lines instead of the stick of charcoal and putting in tons of black.
What’s the one thing that you have seen in your classmates’ work or process that you would like to try in your next piece? If I were to do this again after seeing my classmates I would focus more on filling things in with the black charcoal stick and also maybe try to make more of my skin color like some people chose to do.
How do artists create detailed portraits expressing the personality of the person that is drawn? They create them by using fine details in the face as well as facial expression with shadows in the right places.
