After receiving feedback from both Ms. Price and Ms. Sylvester, I learned that my Self Portrait needed more details and that I needed to spend more time on making the face more 3-dimentional by shading and highlighting much more. The details I added that were suggested from Ms. Price were adding a bit more turning at the end of the lips, adding crevices to the lips, and making the pupils bigger and not in the middle of the iris to achieve a more “real” look.  At first, I shaded the face a little just to make the cheekbones visible and to add a little shadow. But, then Ms. Sylvester told me to add more of what I already had, but that wasn't enough, and I didn't understand why.  So Ms. Sylvester told me to use my picture that was in black and white that portrayed the shadows and highlights clearly, and that helped me a lot with understanding where to shade and where to highlight.  And me understanding that helped add more depth to the face.

Three things I learned during this unit are face proportions, shading, and the basics for drawing facial features.  For face proportions, it was the 5 eyes across the face thing which helped me decide on where to place the eyes. The shading helped the final portrait look a lot better. I didn't understand why this much shading was necessary until I looked at my portrait from a bit further away. Practicing facial features with pencils and charcoal pencils definitely helped me understand the basics that helped me get an okay starter shape of a feature.