In this exercise we were asked to use our imagination or memory to create a portrait of a person. We were told to do it from someone we had seen or if we had read a book to recreate the character in the book. For this I decided to draw a woman I had seen recently seen, this was quite a difficult challenge to do, below is the picture of my result:
This exercise was quite tricky, I found it difficult to get the proportions right and to make it look unalienable. It was hard to know how to place it therefore I did a rough sketch of a head and sketched out the two lines to indicate where I was going to place the eyes, mouth and nose. I felt like you have to have an imagination to create something which isn’t therefore reference and I do feel like I achieved a good result on this task.
All in all, I feel like I have learned a lot about looking at a portrait and recognising the different characteristics needed. It was very eye opening to think of where to place the different facial features and to focus on how I would tone the face and make the detail up. I quite enjoyed this task it felt quite adventurous to use my imagination and memory to form this portrait of a woman.
Sophie's OCA Art Work 