Value Portrait

1. The first step to creating my value drawing was to trace the different shades of the picture I was given. Then I had to transfer the shading parts over to my sketch book. I then looked from my drawing to my sketch book and began to draw the face. I started out with the darkest shades and went to the lightest.

2. I found the different values in the portrait by first taping a piece of transferring paper to the front of the black and white picture of the boy. I then traced all of the different shades that I found on the picture. After I thought I found all the different shading I went back to double check and see if I missed any.

3. I think I did achieve a full range of different values in my portrait. I did this by first starting with his shirt which is the darkest shade. I then went to his face and shaded the whole thing lightly and went back and shaded the parts that needed to be shaded darker.

4. I would say my craftmanship for this project was pretty good. It turned out a lot better than I thought it was going to look. I think I executed this project and crafted it well.

5. During this project I did have some obstacles I had to overcome before I moved on to the next step. One obstacle I had was finding all of the different shades of color in his hair and face. Another obstacle I had was making the colors on his face really blend together.

Pastel Figures

This week we worked on drawing figures and giving them value. On this day we used pastels and blended them to make the figures shaded and give them  value. I like working with pastels, the colors are just so bright and exciting! I feel like this project was pretty successful, mine may not look just like the example we were shown, but it is my own original artwork. It was harder to do the 9 shades off of the value chart with pastels, but the pastels make the overall shape look better. From this piece I learned how to give shapes value, and how to blend the pastels. If I were doing this project over again, I would make more colors of pastels available to everyone.