While it is exciting doing drawings of friends, it can also be nerve wracking because you don't want to make your friend look bad in the event that they get upset with you. Today in drawing we had to do profile portraits of either googled images or of people in the classroom. I chose to attempt to draw one of my friends and so I first took a photo of him sitting and facing perpendicular to me and took my photo to use as my reference to draw him since he would be looking down to do his own drawing.
Drawing portraits always comes with A LOT of erasing as you have to constantly adjust proportions as you draw more and more of the person's features. I began with drawing the basic shape of his head and then added in the nose, lips, eyes, and ears. I had A LOT of problems drawing the lips properly and had to enlist in the help of Professor Rifka in order to get them to look how they do now. The ears were actually my favorite part and I like how they came out with the shading. At first it seemed weird drawing the cheekbone so high but looking at his face, that seems to be the right location. After shading in the skin and drawing the hair as best as i could, it became clear to me that I may have made his head a little to wide. I fixed it as best I could in the short amount of time I had left while still managing to maintain the basic shape of his head. Overall, I think I could have made a few more changes to make the drawing fit proportionally but I enjoyed drawing this side profile than the entire face.
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