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Welcome to Portrait Drawing for Beginners! This workshop is designed for any budding artist from grade 8 to adult. In this workshop you will learn to draw a human face from start to finish. You will focus on facial proportions and the shapes of facial features. You will collaborate with other classmates to critique your drawings and make improvements.



Materials Needed for Workshop

 * computer with Internet access
 * printer
 * drawing paper (8.5" x 11" or larger)
 * pencils
 * erasers
 * scanner or digital camera (to upload and share)

Pre-Workshop Homework
1. Using a pencil and drawing paper, draw a picture of a human face as you would normally draw. Take a photograph of your drawing, or scan it and email the image as a jpeg to kiana.thompson@waldenu.edu. 2. Join this wiki. These things should be done no later than 24 hours before your scheduled workshop.

DURING WORKSHOP
1. View video of the history of self-portraiture lecture by art history teacher, Chelsea Dacres-Smith. (35 minutes)

2.Spend 10 minutes experimenting with this interactive activity to get a feel for facial proportions and shapes of facial features. (10 minutes)

Introductory Activity (PRE-TRAINING)
Visit the handouts on understanding the proportions of a face. Print out pages 4, 5 and 6. You will use these worksheets to do your practice drawings. Go back to page 1 and follow the step-by-step directions in order to learn the basics of portrait drawing. (45 minutes)

Main Activity
Now that you have learned the basics of portraiture, it's time to push your artistic abilities to the next level. You will now start with a blank sheet of drawing paper or larger. Following the tutorial, you are going to create your own portrait drawn using proper proportions. Print out the accompanying handout below to use as a guide. (90 minutes)


 * 1) Either scan or take a digital photograph of your completed portrait and save it as a jpeg image.
 * 2) Create a new page in this wiki called **Your first name**'s page.
 * 3) Post your jpeg image to your page. (15 minutes)
 * 4) Using the rubric as a guide, view the portraits of at least two classmates. On the discussion tab on their page, provide feedback to your classmates. (60 minutes)
 * 5) Based on the feedback, make improvements to your portrait then scan or photograph it again, and post it to your page below the first portrait. (30 minutes)
 * 6) Evaluate this multimedia activity based on the rubric. Provide feedback in the discussion tab on this page. (15 minutes)