Graphite Self Portrait

The main idea that guided my artwork was to draw something realistic, that was the same size and had the same characteristics as the picture was taken. It is a picture of you with no alterations or you were able to choose a baby picture or add a filter which is what I chose to do. We had to make a 1-inch by 1-inch grid across the image printed out and the drawing paper so that when we would begin drawing it would be easy to draw one box at a time.

The materials I used were graphite pencils When I was first starting to draw each individual box I would begin drawing lightly with a 2H pencil. And I would fill usually the whole box with the 2H pencil. I would use it to show where the highlights and lowlights would go making a guide as to where I would darken. Then I would use an HB pencil to darken the lowlights. After finishing with the HB pencil I would finish off the box by using a 4B pencil for the darkest places.

The process I went through between my idea and the finished piece began with deciding what picture I wanted to use. I was going to do a baby picture then I decided to do a filter, the next decision was deciding what filter I should use. Once I had the picture I was going to be using the rest of the project was pretty self-explanatory and I didn't have to make many if any choices about the artwork.