FACIAL FEATURE REFRENCES

THE EYE!

NOSES!

MOUTH

THE SUMMATIVE ASSIGNMENT!

For your summative composition, you are to create an expressive / emotional self portrait that depicts a theme of your choice.
REQUIREMENTS
- artwork represents you beyond just your external self. Work includes at 2-3 objects of symbolism.
- Full range of colors and shadows. Layering pencils to get dark darks and light lights
- smooth transitions between colors
- appropriate proportions for your option
- space is defined by value rather than outlining everything (caricature is the exception)
- intentional background that adds to your selfie narrative - abstract space or intentional environment
​- Artist statement 
OPTION ONE: Master Artist Inspired Portrait
After researching a famous current or historical artist, appropriate one his or her works as inspiration and style to create your own self-portrait or portrait of someone you would like to portray.
​OPTION TWO: Emotional Portrait Selfie
Take a photo of yourself making an emotional expression or create your self portrait depicting an emotional scene.  ​Print out your photo on an 8 1/2  x 11 paper.   Use the grid method of transfer drawing.
OPTION THREE: Anthropomorphic Selfie
Think of yourself as an animal.  What is your "Spirit Animal" perhaps?  Find an image online of the animal you'd wish to combine with your own portrait.  Essentially, you will be printing out two different images to use for this drawing composition.  One of the animal and one of yourself.  You will then, on your drawing composition paper, combine the two photographs to create a new hybrid anthropomorphic creature self-portrait.
OPTION FOUR: Creating A Caricature of Yourself 
Once you start to understand the basics proportion rules you can use them to start breaking rules. A caricature is defined as  a drawing of (someone) in a simplified or exaggerated way. A good cartoonist is one who can extract the main details of an object or a human being and simplify in shapes so that a child can recognize and be attracted to what they're looking at. It was studying infant perception that masters like Walt Disney, Hanna & Barbera, Chuck Jones, Jim Henson, Walter Lantz and many others have enchanted the world with its magical and eternal characters.
The Process of gridding:
  1. After choosing your theme, you will need to decide whether to use the grid method or draw your portrait free hand. 
  2. If using the grid, use a photo of yourself (Snapchat, Facebook, Photobooth, etc) but consider pose and expression to depict your theme.
  3. Grid out your image using a 1 or 2 inch grid.  Then, lightly draw a grid on your drawing paper using cross multiplication to find the proportion of the enlarged grid from your photo.
  4. Begin drawing the contours of the photo from each square.  Focus on drawing only what you see from one square at a time.
  5. Lastly, follow the same process from step 4 when adding color and value.  Focus on only the values you see in one square at a time.  Assign one color per value / gray tone.