Value Portraits

1. Explain the process you went through to develop your drawing.

I started making this portrait by tracing all the shapes with different values onto tracing paper. The next step was to turn the tracing paper over and color with pencil over all the lines.Then you put it on a clean page in the sketch book and retrace all the lines you see. After taking off the tracing paper you'll see a faded outline on the page in your sketch book. Last you start filling in the shapes with the different values that you see in the original picture and you blend them all together.

2. Explain how you found the different values in the portrait?

If you hold the original picture up to the light you can see all the different values. When shading in the values on the final portrait you look at the value scale and compare the values in the picture to determine which one to use.

3.  Did you achieve a full range of the different values within your portrait?  How?

Yes I believe I did use a full range of values. I kept comparing the orignal picture with my value scale to find all the different values. I used pretty much every value in my portrait except maybe the lightest one because everything had some value or shade to it.

4. Describe your craftsmanship.  Is the artwork executed and crafted neatly?

I would describe my craftsmanship pretty good. There is no smudging or smearing and everything is blended nicely. You can no longer see the lines of the shapes I drew to seperate the different values.

5. List any obstacles you had to overcome and how you dealt with them.

One of the biggest obstacles I had to overcome was adding the facial features like the nose and eyes. I kept erasing and redrawing but to fix it Mrs. Rossi showed me how to blend the values better to define the shape rather than drawing it.

Value Study

1. Describe your overall thoughts on the final piece.
This project was hard to start but once you started it was easy to just keep shading & blend the different values together.

3. How successful do you feel this piece is and why?
I feel pretty successful with this piece. I wasn't feeling good about it at first but after I started & got more practice blending the different values I felt a lot better about it.
4. What worked about this project? What didn’t work?
What worked I think was working with the oil pastels because it was a lot easier to blend the different colors together to give the shape more value. What I think didn't really work was drawing the shapes. All the shapes looked good excpet for my cube.

5. If you were to do this project over again, what changes would you consider making?
I would have practiced just drawing the cube more & shading it before I got into the final drawing.

6. What was the most difficult part about completing this piece and why?
The most difficult part was making the color thick enough. It was hard because I would get the blending to look good but then I would have to go back & shade over it all again to make the colors thicker.

7. What did you learn from this piece?
I learned how you can use different colors & different shades of colors to blend them into eachother to give the shape value & make it look three dimensional and not just flat.