Portrait

Self Portrait Guided Practice

1. Explore and Practice Basics

Explore basic proportions of the face to be more successful with your portrait to look more natural.
Then use those proportions to draw the two works by Anguissola and Crosby in your sketchbook.
- Answer the questions on your own
  - What kinds of stories do you imagine from these works?
  - How did you get that story?
  - Label some of the clues in your drawings of each portrait.

2. Prepare and Practice for your main project. Complete the following tasks

Write or sketch some ideas in your sketchbook.
- Brainstorm what kinds of stories would you like to tell in YOUR self-portrait?
- How could you show that? What details would you need to include to make it easy for others to understand
Practice Drawing Yourself a few times (5-10 minutes each time) by looking into a mirror.
- Focus on proportions- where are your eyes compared to the top of your head? mouth? ears?
- Try making different facial expressions.
- How can you use your pose, environment, and facial expressions to tell us more about YOU through your self-portrait?

3. Create a final (best) Self Portrait and fill the page.

Pick your best practice drawing and make it bigger!
Spend at least 1 hour on it, more is better- it shows you are really looking at details and taking the time to capture details.
Draw from your reflection using a pencil. Be sure to capture the details that make you look like YOU!
Add shading with your pencil.
If you don’t like your first effort, try again. Label your best (finished) Self Portrait and include it in the
portfolio.
Add texture and color is a bonus- and add if you spent at least 1 hour just making the design. That's what we're really evaluating.

4. Add images of everything to the your template.

Then You Lost Me 2013
By Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Oil and acrylic on printed paper mounted on board

Self-Portrait 1554
By Sofonisba Anguissola
Oil-on-panel painting 1554