Before we officially made our projects, we first practiced drawing the individual facial features like eyes, noses, lips, and also the hair in order to get a general idea how the facial features are supposed to be drawn correctly to make them look realistic.
First, we draw a student from our sister school. We take a tracing paper and placed it in front of the picture of the student. We put the tracing and picture somewhere where there's light and trace the visible shapes we can see from the student's self-picture to our tracing paper in order to increase our chances of keeping the porportion of the face right and get some of the shading right.
After that step, we started drawing our person until it looked pretty realistic and very similar to the student's self-picture. We also did the same for our self-portraits, but we looked at ourselves in the mirror instead, used helping tools (ruler) to make the porportions of our face and characterictics accurate and precise without a part of the face (ex. eye, ear, lips, etc.) looking distorted. Example:
And all our hard work had been paid off:
Perhaps the difficult part was trying to keep the porportion of the face right and also the shading. We had to determine also how light or dark we should shade on order for the self-portrat of our sister school and ourselves "pop" out. Some may not be as great as the others, but as long as we did our best and accomplished something, it's a big pat on our backs. After completing this project, we learned the skills of keeping the proportion of the face right, where the darker and lighter shades go on which part(s) of the face, and to simply do our best. If I were to do this project again, the changes I would have a self-portrait of a cartoon/anime character this time and try to draw it into a "real person-like" drawing just to challenge myself!
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