Value Portraits

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1. Explain the process you went through to develop your drawing.

      First, Mrs. Rossi took a picture of me and printed it out for me to trace over where the light hit my face. Secondly, I put tracing paper over the picture to trace the values of my face. After I was done tracing the values of my face, I had to scribble on the back of the tracing paper in order to transfer my drawing into my sketch book. After I was done with that, I went back and traced over my face all over again to transfer it into the sketch book. Once everything was all transferred, I had to shade the values of my face.

 

2. Explain how you found the different values in the portrait?

     So basicly, I held the picture of my face up to the window with the tracing paper on top of it and I traced over the different values. I found the different values by tracing the values and then shading them in according to where the light hit my face.

3.  Did you achieve a full range of the different values within your portrait?  How?

    I achieved a full range of different values within my portrait by holding up my portable value chart to my original picture and I shaded accordingly. I learned that I liked having just regular pencils to draw rather than drawing pencils. Because, I felt that the leads of some of the drawing pencils were very soft and I just liked the regular pencils better for shading.

4. Describe your craftsmanship.  Is the artwork executed and crafted neatly?

   I personally think it wasn't that great and I think I could've done better. I think on some of the values they were a lot darker than they should've been. Overall, I felt it was pretty neat but could've been neater.

 

5. List any obstacles you had to overcome and how you dealt with them.
    One of the bigger issues I had to deal with was my mental outlook on my drawing because, I am a perfectionist and sometimes I have to step back and realize that everything I do won't be perfect. Honestly, I wasn't really expecting to turn out the way it did. Overall I think I did okay on this project.

   

Value Study Drawings

Along with the photos, please write about your experience working on each project. The following questions can be used as a guide. You don't need to answer all the questions...


1. Describe your overall thoughts on the final piece.
I think that I need to work on my color blending skills, but overall I think I did a pretty good job. :)

2. if this was a group project, what was your contribution?

3. How successful do you feel this piece is and why?
I feel pretty successful for the most part, but I think I have some work to do with my shading and drawing skills.

4. What worked about this project? What didn’t work?
This project worked because it was fun to experiment with the oil pastels. I don't think that there were many problems with the project. Overall it was really easy

5. If you were to do this project over again, what changes would you consider making?
I would've wanted more colors to choose from with the oil pastels, because there's only so many color schemes you can make.

6. What was the most difficult part about completing this piece and why?
I think it was hard to figure out where you were supposed to transition into a different color was because, on some of the shapes I drew, each space that I shaded seemed to be too large.
7. What did you learn from this piece?
I learned how to shade and blend colors.