November 15-19

Studio Projects: Charcoal Self-Portraits

• Monday: Introduce Self-portrait project, Demo on Measuring with the "perfect eye".
• Tuesday: HW: 5 socks due today. Mini-lab Assignment-Facial Features Due Today. Use measuring and proportion techniques to work on Charcoal Self-portraits.
• Wednesday: Work on Self-portraits-proper use of black and white charcoal on gray paper.
• Thursday: Work on Self-portraits.
  
• Friday: Finishing techniques for charcoal self-portraits.

Homework – Beginning on Tuesday November 16 your homework will be to draw 5 Modified Contour Self-portraits. You will need to look at yourself in the mirror because you should be drawing from observation! Use pen, record the beginning and ending time. Draw for 5 minutes uninterrupted. Remember this is modified contour drawing – all will be in line. Drawings due on Tuesday, November 23 .

Mini-lab Assignment – Cut-out parts of large parts of faces from magazines and paste in your journal (these should be as large or larger than life-size). You should cut-out eyes, nose, mouth, ears. You will then draw all of these in your journal on the same page as the pasted image as realistically as possible! Eyes, nose, and mouth should all be from a frontal view. You should have 2 ear drawings, 1 where you can see the whole ear, and another where the ear is partially covered by hair. Due on Tuesday, November 16.