Due: next week
Emotive Self Portraits
You are to pick two of the eight self-portrait drawings options
below; make a self-portrait for each of your choices, with each drawing
affecting the chosen human facial reaction:
Surprise
Fear
Skepticism
Shame
Excitement
Anger
Disdain
Disgust
Be as melodramatic as possible. Subtlety is great, but for
drawings like this to work they need a theatrical quality. Each drawing
must be meticulously finished from observation only. This means you may not work from photos or any other 2
dimensional references, and you must be sure that you draw as anatomically
accurate as you are able. To do this you must spend hours in front of
your mirror at home studying your face in different poses. Leave any self-consciousness
at the door. Each drawing should fill a page in your sketchbook.
To make a drawing that feels genuinely emotional, you must pay
special attention to the parts of the face that show the emotion—mainly the
eyes and surrounding structures (eyebrows, upper cheeks, forehead), and the
mouth and surrounding structures (lips, lower cheeks, chin). How do these parts expand and contract with
the emotion? You must address both eyes
and mouth! A great mouth with blank,
vacant eyes looks fake, and vise versa. Good luck.
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