self portrait

This drawing is of a picture of myself from last year at my friends house. It is all in graphite and I used the grid system in order to draw myself. Then for the circles I used a tool so I could get them perfect. In this I used a lot of value for the shading in order to show movement in my sweater. I tried to put the circles in a random pattern and create equal space in between them. I used framing around my silhouette with the poke-o-dots in the background and by keeping the background simple I made myself stand out. Sometimes I redid the shading by erasing it or making it darker. The hair was also something I redid and tried to figure out which shades would be good to make it appear curly. This picture and really nice dimension and different values that I wanted to do and is also a good picture of myself without showing my whole face. The sleeve on the left is a little sloppy and looks thrown in so I would wish to revise that.