In order to complete this project, we first had to take a picture of ourselves and give them to a fellow classmate. The pictures were taken with a projector to our right in order to ensure a sharp contrast of colors. We then held our pictures up to a window or other source of light, and put tracing paper over them, then we traced any shapes we saw Be it a shadow, or facial feature, we had to trace as many shapes as we possibly could. We then did the process of transferring our tracings on the tracing paper to our sketchbooks, retracing every line until we had the exact same drawing in our sketchbooks. Tracing all of the shapes allowed us to see where every shadow and color gradient started and stopped. We achieved a full range of different values in our portraits thanks to the positioning of the projector when we were first taking the photographs. This made the differences between the shades very harsh, and extremely noticeable. My execution of the drawing could have been better. I think I could have shaded darker, and maybe cleaned up the edges a little more. I'm still not happy with the way the eyes turned out, but I couldn't think of how I could have made them more like the actual person's. Then there are all the random smudges around the paper that come with rubbing the drawing with your fingers in order to have real looking shading. I had to overcome the obstacle of having never done a portrait of this nature, and using all new techniques, but overall I think the finished product was a success, and I had a fun time completing the portrait.
-Jack
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