1. WARM-UP!

In your opinion,
what’s the most
difficult part
about drawing
faces? Please be
prepared to share
your answer.

2. Drawing Portraits
(it’s not as scary as you think)

3. What is a portrait?

A portrait is a painting,
photograph, sculpture, or
other artistic
representation of a
person, in which the face
and its expression is
predominant. The intent
is to display the likeness,
personality, and even the
mood of the person
Gwyneth Paltrow, 2008
Montse Bernal

4. 
Some of the earliest
surviving painted
portraits of people
who were not kings
or emperors, are the
funeral portraits that
survived in the dry
climate of Egypt's
Fayum district. The
portraits covered the
faces of those who
were mummified for
burial.
Mummy
portraits done on
board with
tempera paint.
From the 2nd
Century

5. 
The art of the portrait
flourished in Ancient Greek
and especially Roman
sculpture, where sitters
demanded individualized and
realistic portraits, even
unflattering ones
Roman portraiture is
characterized by its
"warts and all" realism

6. 
During the 4th
century, the
portrait began to
retreat in favor of
an idealized
symbol of what
that person looked
like.
Roman Emperor
Constantine I
Roman Emperor
Theodosius I

7. 
True portraits of
the outward
appearance of
individuals reemerged in the
late Middle Ages
Portrait of Henry the
VIII

8. 
When the artist creates
a portrait of him- or
herself, it is called a
self-portrait.
Self Portrait by Vincent
Van Gogh

9. Self Portrait of
Pablo Picasso

10. 
Self Portrait
of Salvador
Dali

11. 
Dual Self Portrait
by Stella Im
Hultberg

12. Portrait Pre-Assessment

To see where you’re at (an to have something to
compare your final drawing to) we’re going to be
drawing portraits from photographs.

DON’T PANIC! These are NOT being graded!

13. Creating Value Scales

Value refers to the lightness or the darkness of a
color

A value scale shows the wide range of lightness
and darkness you can achieve with your pencil
and ebony pencil

14. WARM-UP!

Look at the image of the ruler below and find the one
inch mark.

We will be creating 1 inch by 1 grids over our reference
photos and drawing paper. Why is it important to make
sure your measurements are exact?

15. To-Do List


1. Finish practice grid drawing
2. Draw grid over final draft paper and reference
photos (same photo your use for your portrait preassessment)
 **make sure your measurements are carefully done

Begin with a line drawing of your photo, paying
close attention to where things are located in the
boxes and how large or small they are within the box