Value Portrait

In order to develop my drawing I placed a sheet of translucent paper over a picture. Then I placed the picture on the window and outlined all of the different shaded areas. After that I shaded the entire backside

of the paper and placed it, face up, on a piece of blank drawing paper where I drew over the outlines in order to transfer them onto the drawing paper. Once they were transferred I shaded in the portrait and blended in the colors. I found the different values in the portrait by putting the picture up against the window so that the sun could shine through it and I could see the different shades. I received a full range of values in my portrait by using different shades to make the darker and lighter areas blend together. I added the extreme values and then went back over with the ones in between to fill any gaps and make the portrait more realistic. I think that the overall craftsmanship of the portrait was okay, although I don't think that the drawing looks very much like the picture. I also think that I didn't do a very good job blending, but other than that I think that I executed and crafted the drawing neatly. While drawing the portrait I I had trouble making the drawing look like the picture because it was very hard to match some of the features in the picture. I couldn't figure out where to shade to make the features pop out, so I tried to think about where it would be darker based on where the light was coming from.

Oil Pastel Drawing

I think that my final piece turned out okay, although I didn't blend the oil pastels well enough. My final product was successful in giving the 3-D effect that the shading was meant to give and overall it looked nice. Originally I tried to shade by coloring in the shapes in sections, but I found that in order to bled the colors you need to layer the oil pastels on top of each other. If I were to do this project again I would make the shapes bigger and try not to color in a shape with the wrong color, because it is very hard to fix. The most difficult part of completing this piece was probably the blending because it was hard to get the pastels to look like they were gradually changing from one to the next without getting lines of color. I learned that you have to be patient and take your time while working ion this piece because it took a while to get the colors to blend correctly.