Week 2 Homework

Week 2 Homework

Westerly Studio Art; Mr. Stevenson

The Self-Portrait

As always, you will have to spend 45 to 60 minutes making a self-portrait drawing.  This, therefore, is the first of many (but just think about one at a time). 

Your self-portrait must be in your sketch book, it must be from a mirror, and you may use any drawing medium you’d like.

See the image below for a reminder of the proportion of the face.

Negative Space Drawing

Also, you are to set up a kitchen or dining room chair and make a drawing of it in the same manner we did in class.  Use the measuring strategies (distance and angles) we used in class to be sure that shape of the chair (and the shape of the negative space around it) is accurate, and then neatly fill in the negative space with an even tone.  Erase all lines in the positive space and be sure that the edges where the positive meets the negative are sharp.  Your chair should FILL your sketchbook page!
Below are a couple of handouts from my college classes that address the issues that we talked about in class.  They may be helpful to you.

Note: if you have another object in mind that you think would work well with this project instead of a chair, feel free to use it.  It should have plenty of negative spaces throughout it.