PlanningWell, I am not one for taking pictures of myself let alone drawing or painting myself. I did not enjoy my self portrait from last year at all, and FUN FACT: Even though I did a portrait last year, I NEVER learned how to draw people. Besides that, I had like 20 pictures of me that I thought would be good to to use. Turns out I was wrong, Mrs. Rossi didn't like ANY of them! That just added on to the pile of hate this project was gonna be, I didn't want to go and take more pictures. After I took some new pictures I played around in Photoshop with the colors. The colors that looked the best were pinks, reds, purples, and yellows. Again adding to the pile of hate, I don't like pink and that would be the majority of the piece. ProgressSince I have never been taught how to draw a self portrait Mrs. Rossi suggested that I grid out my paper to keep the proportions correct. Once I grided out my paper and drew the line work, it was time to start coloring. I decided that it would be easier if I worked left to right and not start with the face or a specific feature. I know the kind of style that I have when using prismacolor pencils isn't quite the smoothest or completely blended look. When looking at the picture my face is rather smooth, so I was worried that I wouldn't get texture right. I'm glad the hair is what was draw first I love the way the hair came out. I like the way the transition of colors look, and the highlights in the hair. I give any of my talent of hair to Nicole from last year, she made it so easy to understand drawing hair. With the skin I decided to light layers of color blocking since the reference picture was pretty much color blocked. I liked the colors I used for the face, I just wish they blended better together. I don't like the lines you can see from the pencil strokes. I used the colorless blender to smooth some things out a bit more. Overall I like the piece a whole lot more than the one I did last year, but I still don't really love the texture of the piece.
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