Illustration Project 1 (Abstract Portraits)

Objective:  Students will create a drawing of their head using objects that describe who they are.

Time: about two weeks

State Goals:

25- Language of the arts

25.A.5 Analyze and evaluate student and professional works for how aesthetic qualities are used to convey intent, expressive ideas and/or meaning. 

26- Through creating and performing, understand how works of art are produced

26.A.4e Visual Arts:
Analyze and evaluate how tools/technologies and processes combine to convey meaning. 

Materials:

-Pencil

-Drawing Paper

-Colored Pencils

(ink, watercolors, oil pastels optional)

Procedure:

Step 1-Learn proportions of a face and create a quick outline of your head lightly in pencil

Step 2-Start to fill in objects that represent you very lightly with little detail and color the drawing in colored pencil using the proper technique (circles, blending, multiple color layers)

Here are some of the completed projects!

 Watercolor as a torn paper collage in the background and an ink outline:

 Very detailed colored pencil work as well as ink outlines:

Oil pastels added in for a mixed media approach: