Drawing II, Week 9, Portraits

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Week 9
Portraits

What are we doing this week?
10 gestures of expressions (1 minute each)
1 proportion analysis (5 minutes) 
3 drawings - front view, 3/4 view, profile (30 minutes each)
Homework: Planar Analysis Portrait
Materials: graphite or charcoal
References: facial expressions, front view, 3/4 view, profile


Emotion Gestures
Find reference photos of people who have different facial expressions. (You could use a video and stop the action or Google expression, or use Pinterest expressions.)
React quickly to the gesture of the face.  Don’t worry about details, try to capture the movement of the face. Do at least 10, 1-minute gestures. 


Expressions

These are photos from magazines.

Sketching People, Life Drawing Basics, by Jeff Mellem

When you are drawing the gesture of the expression, look for where the face changes shape. Identify what is being changed. How does the expression affect the eyes, the mouth, the cheeks? What new lines appear?


Class Notes, 1- minute gestures, Kim Schrag


Drawing by Alberto Giacometti 


Facial proportions
Note these measurements:

•         Use a vertical line to divide the face in half.
•         Divide the face into thirds from hairline to chin.  Mark the eyebrows as one-third,   
                 and the bottom of the nose as one-third.
•         Divide the face into thirds from the bottom of the nose to the chin
•         Profile view: Divide the head, at the front of the ear, into two equal parts.

Eyes
•         Place eyes halfway between the top of the skull and chin.  There may be additional space         above the skull line for hair.
•         The head is five eye widths wide.  The distance between the eyes is one eye width.
•         The distance between the eyes is the same width as the nostrils.
•         The pupil of the eye will line up with the corners of the mouth in a front view.

Lips:  the horizontal centerline of the lips is one-third of the way between the nose and the chin.

Ears:  the top of the ears are in line with the eye, the bottom of the ear is in line with the base of                    the nose.

 Class notes, Kim Schrag

Drawing As Expression, Sandy Brooke

Draw the proportions lines on top of a photograph of a person. Use the front view. This will help you see how the proportions work.



Front view

Do three, 30-minute portraits drawings. Use the guidelines to help you see accurately.  They may disappear as you develop the drawing. If someone will model for you, that's great! If not, find some reference photos. Do a front view, a 3/4 side view, and a profile.


Front view


3/4 view

Profile


Homework
Planar Analysis Portrait
·   Draw your self-portrait by looking into a mirror. 

Make the lines in the drawing straight and focus on describing the divisions of the face. Your drawing may look very mechanical and angular.
After you understand the divisions of the face and proper placement for the facial features you may start adding more specific details but keep your lines straight and focused on constructing planes rather than accurate descriptions.

You may add value, but keep the lines of the planes visible.

·   Consider the composition. Will your portrait fill the page or will you include background elements?  You may choose the materials.


Illustration from Sketching People, by Jeff Mellem

This drawing by Oliver Sin is a wonderful example of planar analysis.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B9qNAJEHmq-/

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