Beginning Portrait class

Here is F.L.'s student work for today. First we learned about how to proportion a face, using a gridded paper as a guideline. Who knew there was so much math in art?

After drawing their own face, the students took a pre-drawn face and began "sculpting" it with one color of paint. We began blocking in all the light colors first, then the darkest, then the medium shades. Keeping it monochrome helped focus on values instead of getting the right skin tones.

A good web site to look into portrait basics is www.portrait-artist.org