Art with Cynthia

Drawing #6 -Need good quality largish photo of a face facing front- preferably black and white 1.     10 min. Review homework a.     Collage-  c.     New portrait-  Choose a photo of a face you like. 2.     Face proportions- 15 min. a.  Proportion is how the parts of the face relate to each other. It’s the correct size and placement of the eyes, mouth and nose. If you mess up the shape of the head and the location of the features, you will not capture a likeness. 1)     As a rule, the face has a more or less oval shape. Draw an oval. 2)     Start with guide lines: ]   Eye line: Most eyes are at about the center of the face. Measure and draw an eye-line. ]   Nose line: Make a light mark higher than halfway between the eyeline and chin line. ]   Mouth: Measure the distance between the nose and eye lines and place the mouth line the same distance above the chin. 3)     Facial features: With the construction lines as references, start blocking in the facial features. ]   Most eyes are abou

Drawing 2 #5 -Need good quality largish photo of a tree- preferably black and white 1.     Review homework a.     Animal drawing. b.     Tree: Your homework was to c.     find or take a tree photo (close enough to see the texture of the tree),  d.     draw thumbnails to plan a simple composition focusing on the tree trunk, but have interest in the positive and negative spaces,  e.     start a first draft, and experiment with texture. 2.    Tree drawing: a.     To believably draw a tree, you need to: 1)     First outline the shape of the trunk and branches. 2)     Next look at the value patterns (lightness and darkness) underneath the texture. You can see them better if you squint your eyes and blur the details. Outline the different value areas. 3)     Bark texture is indicated by using marks that imitate bark shape and a suggestion of texture that our mind interprets. You don’t have to draw the texture in great detail but use the stokes that convey the feel:  -Slightly wandering line