Making Our Self-Portraits

The Process of Making our Self-Portraits
About two weeks ago our class decided to create self-portraits of ourselves. As artists we had to go through a large number of processes. First we had to fold the paper in to four equal spaces. Next we had to draw a really neat circle with an eraser and then we got to draw a circle with pencil really neat and light. After our teacher Michael taught us how to draw our eyes, nose, and mouth. We had mirrors to draw our hair. After we had to use sharpies to outline the parts that we wanted to so that it would stand out and when we are painting it would be like a coloring page. First we had to go and line up and get our paints. Than we had to get the colors red, orange, yellow and brown to mix our skin color. After we made our skin color we panted our face and neck. After two days later we got to paint our hair eyes and our shirt. Most of us found it was very difficult to get the color of their eyes. Some of us forgot to paint the neck so than we had to re-make the color of their neck, but our necks are usually lighter then our face. The process of doing our face was really hard, but still was not finished because we still had to do our backgrounds. Our instructions for background were to try to fill up all the spaces; you didn’t have to, but we tried to.

Writing by: J & C

OUR SELF-PORTRAITS

About two weeks ago our class decided that we wanted to make self portraits. As young artists, we had to go through a large number of processes. First we had to draw our faces roughly and plan where we wanted everything to go, such as the mouth, nose, eyes, and hair.
We had to learn how to draw the eyes, mouth, and nose after we planned our faces. Then we had to make our faces neater and erase the extra lines. The entire project was to learn about mixing paint, so our teacher taught us how to make skin color out of red, orange, yellow, white, and brown. We mixed it all to make skin color; it was very, very difficult because when you added too much of one color it could make your face look like it was sun burned or even like you had a bad rash. One strategy that I came up with was to dip your paint brush and stroke it against your face to see if the paint was a close enough match.
Once we were done the skin, we drew our eyes and mouths, painted them, and outlined them with sharpie. Then we did the hair, painted it, and outlined them, too. The last step in our portraits was to make our backgrounds; we were not allowed to leave any white in them.

Written by: M