Time Capsules

Drawing my self-portrait I wanted to emphasize the fact I have African facial features, like my nose. I shaded my face darker to show that I am black and made my nose how it is in real life to the best of my ability. I was sitting on the couch this weekend watching Modern Family and I remembered our assignment to draw a perspective of a room and I thought, ‘Why not do it now while I am looking at a corner of a room?’ So I used my time in two ways. At first, I thought I would draw my laptop as my still life but then my phone was just set on my desk and I realized I have never really taken a minute to really look at my phone so I decided to draw that instead. 

I started drawing my self-portrait by looking at the shape of my head and going from there. I did my neck, shoulders, shirt, and then my lips. At first, I wasn't sure whether to draw myself with my hair up or down but decided on down so it wouldn’t look like I was bald and I could show how curly my hair is in real life. For my still life, as I mentioned before, I started to draw my laptop. Then I realized it was much too plain and started drawing my phone. I thought at first that I would leave the final product of my phone drawing not filled in, just the outline and without the little tie loop that is on it, but I thought it would look more complete with both of those things done, so I did them. Essentially my original idea for the perspective was to draw the corner of my living room with my tv, and I thought the idea was solid so I stuck with it.

In seventh-grade art class, I was taught how to draw perspectives. The whole time I was drawing the corner of my living room I was just trying to remember how to make stuff look like it's farther away or closer up, but I think I did ok… a lot of erasing. For all 3 drawings, I basically did the same techniques. I used the same graphite 2B pencil and outlined my plan for the drawing. There was a lot of erasing and re-sketching and erasing and re-sketching. I then used my fingers to blend the graphite out to not make harsh shading lines which you tend to get when shading with a graphite pencil.