Goals:
1. Observational drawing fosters transferrable skills. Increase confidence in self-portraits and drawing the human figure.
2. Develop technical application of graphite through various mark-making and values.
Objective:
- Students will demonstrate the application of a range of graphite to depict particular values.
- Students will use a black and white photo to reference their drawings.
- Students will complete the composition by including other aspects of themselves.
- Students will use color to enhance their drawings.
- Anchor Standard 2: Investigate
VA:Cr 2.1.6a Demonstrate openness in trying new materials, methods, and approaches in making their art.
- Anchor Standard 9: Interpret
VA:Re 9.1.6a Develop and apply relevant criteria to evaluate a work of art
Rubric:
1. Composition: Have I purposely made choices to create balance in where I placed my photo, how I used a range of graphite pencils and placement of background drawings. I choice specific colored pencils to use for my background.
2. Craftmanship: Have I paid attention to how I used a range of pencils and the tortillon. I took my time with mark-making. I erased extra smudges of graphite. The background was considered just as important as the portrait.
3. Basic requirements: I follow the rubric to make the piece of artwork. At least 5 different graphite values, followed the checklist, looked for areas of improvement.
4. Classroom Community: Have I behaved maturely. I was respectful to peers, materials, and teachers. I helped pick up and clean materials at my table and in the classroom, even if I did not use them or make the mess.
5. Effort: I tried my hardest to make the best work possible. I demonstrated care about the process of making the art and the outcome of my work by staying on task and asking for help/advice from the teacher.
Assignment 1
Practice portrait graphite through values in pencil shading techniques
Assignment 2 :
Follow the Steps:
1) With your printed photo:
- Cut out your picture, so there is no background.
- Place your portrait at the bottom of the paper (so it meets the edge)
- Trace around your portrait.
- Use a pencil to draw a line through the middle of your portrait. It does not have to be straight! (Could be a zigzag, wavy, etc.)
- Cut along the line. Glue down one side (put the glue on the back of your picture) inside the tracing
- Save both pieces!
2) Use an H or HB pencil
Where your portrait is missing, draw LIGHT, straight lines across:
- Top of your forehead,
- At your eyebrows,
- Bottom of eyes,
- Bottom of the nose,
- Top and bottom of the mouth,
- Bottom of the chin.
- Begin sketching the DARKEST parts that you see in your portrait.
-Your hair
-Eyebrow and eye socket
-Around your nose
-Wrinkle on cheek from smiling
- Use a tortillion to blend and smooth out these lines
4)Look how your picture is much darker than the white of the paper-graphite needs to be everywhere!
- Sketch lightly over other areas with an HB pencil.
- BLEND and DRAW over these areas with the tortillion. TURN OVER
- Slowly build up the lines to create your features.
- You may use a darker pencil after (2B and 4B)
- Use 6B last
5) Besides drawing you, we want to draw what makes you, you!
- Fill the background with words, doodles, pictures and designs of what you like, what you believe in, and what makes you happy. (refer to your checklist you made)
- Use colored pencils to enhance your background (BUT leave your portrait in pencil!).
Check List
- Half of your picture is glued to your paper.
- You are still referencing the other half of your portrait photo while drawing your portrait.
- Your portrait drawing has a range of gray values from graphite- only leaving the whitest whites untouched!! The value should be close to that of the photograph.
- Use an eraser to pull out lighter values.
- Use a tortillion to blend graphite.
- Background can be started once the portrait is complete.
- Begin the background in a pencil.
- Vary the sizes of drawings in your background: Map out where things should go and lightly sketch the size of the drawings.
- Have a friend hold up your work and step back 5 big steps to check your portrait.
How to draw a nose:
How to draw a mouth:
