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.