Once we wrapped up drawing mannequins and cloths, we moved on to drawing portraits and more specifically self-portraits, and the students impressed me even more with the portraits than they did with the figure drawings. Not only did we do real life portraits, we also did a lot of posing and sketching. We had multiple teachers come into the room to pose for our lessons at which point the students had a few minutes to sketch and draw the person as well as possible in that time. I personally had a really hard time with drawing from real life, especially people. That seems to be the reason that I was so impressed with the students’ ability to draw something that’s right in front of them, simply because I lack that skill. The self-portraits they did were very accurate and I was amazed by the way you could see the similarities between the drawing and the student. I think that this project was a little more laid-back, allowing students to draw at their own pace and letting them pace themselves. The pace showed in the drawings, I think a lot of students really took their time in drawing the portraits and that may be the reason that they turned out so well. Mr. Angelis also had a lot of good examples to show.
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