PORTRAITS

PRACTICAL PROPORTION

• We want to learn how to draw a portrait (face)
• Our portraits must be in PROPORTION...(?)
• So...where are our eyes, nose, mouth and ears?
• Hold one hand on your head and one on your chin...
• Look at someone else's features

TRYING IT OUT

1 : FOLD

2 : FOLD AGAIN

3 : FOLD AGAIN!

DRAWING

• Draw the top of a circle from the top to the half way fold
• Draw an oval shape from there to the bottom
• Flatten it a little for the chin
• Measure five equal spaces across the horizontal half way fold
• Mark these with light pencil marks

DRAWING 2

• Mark in 2 almond shapes for the eyes between the 2nd and 4th space
• Draw in the pupils
• Draw a dotted line from the tear duct straight down
• Draw another from the centre of the pupil straight down
• This will give you the nose and mouth guide

DRAWING 3

• Use the dotted lines and folded lines to mark in the nose base and mouth
• Add eyebrows a little above the eyes
• Remember to leave enough room for the eye lid - look at your partner
• Add ears from the brow line to the base of the nose
• Show the neck from the base of the ears down

HOW DID WE DO?