Portrait #1

For this picture, we worked on drawing side portraits of any person we would like.  I searched the internet and found a picture of this woman.  I wanted to draw her because of her great bone structure of her cheeks, creating interesting shadows to shade in. We used a grid technique that allowed us to draw the picture from the original version onto a much larger canvas, in the right proportion. Because the picture had such powerful shadows, I had trouble drawing them in dark enough.  I was always afraid of making them to dark but now I realize it would have transformed this drawing.  Even though this wasn't the best art work, I had fun and learned a lot during the process. :)