self portrait

This is my self portrait. To start out I gridded a picture then a piece of paper with the same grid and started off by going square by square. Then once I had done the background I just started on my face I first drew the outline then I drew in pencil and then the facial features. I drew everything with a light pencil sketch but the hair.

For the hair I took black charcoal and drew wavy lines to look like my hair then I took white charcoal and did the same. the hardest part of this was the sweater I made it into a grey color then I used the black charcoal and drew little lines to represent the knitted lines.

I am very proud of this piece of art because I think that it looks a lot like the picture that I had and it came out much better then I thought it would. My favorite part of this is the hair I think it looks very realistic. And overall I love this picture.