PORTRAIT UNIT - Me Myself and I
Hyper Realistic Artists
Chuck Close - A Portrait in Progress
Chuck Close - Note to Younger Self
Chuck Close - Working With a Grid
The Human Face and Phi
Portrait Mix and Match (Printables and examples)
Above is an example of the Portrait Design Process
BIG IDEA: Create a series of drawings and prompts based on basic mathematical knowledge and theories of Phi and create realistic portraits while learning how to draw better.
You will learn various techniques and styles of artist Chuck Close. We will focus on his techniques and how he uses photo references while working from a grid system and systematically breaks apart a structure to be able to see the “whole” picture. Chuck Close is also learning disabled and is recognized as one of the most influential American artists of modern art and photo realism. You will be drawing self-portraits using a photo reference. You will be shown examples of other children’s work/self-portraits to make you feel a little more at ease about drawing yourself. This lesson is to help you “see” who you are. |
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ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How is proportion essential in recognizing a well organized portrait?
DESIGN PROCESS / KEY COMPONENTS: What is expected in your portfolio:
1. Photograph
2. Before drawing
3. Shape-puzzle
4. Value scale & Sphere
GOALS: 2 Spheres: one colored, one black and white
Value Scale, Labeled Sphere with valeue elements
5. Color map/line drawing on grid
6. Revision – no color/contour drawing
7. Final – with value and shading
8. Reflection and Review
KEY KNOWLEDGE: You will review and know:
MAGNET THEME CONNECTION:
Mechanical Engineer and Professor Adrian Bejan who developed a new law of physics governing the design of matter as it moves through air and water states, “Cognition is the name of the constructual evolution of the brain's architecture, every minute and every moment. This is the phenomenon of thinking, knowing, and then thinking again more efficiently. Getting smarter is the constructal law in action." Bejan also states “Many artists since the Renaissance have proportioned their work in accordance with the golden ratio or "divine proportion", particularly in the form of the golden rectangle, which has informed Leonardo's work. It describes a rectangle with a length roughly one and a half times its width.
The grid method: http://www.art-is-fun.com/grid-method.html Golden Mean: http://engineerofknowledge.blogspot.com/2009/05/golden-ratio.html
Golden Mean in relationship to art & science: http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibInArt.html Scale and proportion: http://www.sophia.org/design-in-art-scale-and-proportion-tutorial
Facial proportions and drawing lessons: http://thevirtualinstructor.com/facialproportions.html
DESIGN PROCESS / KEY COMPONENTS: What is expected in your portfolio:
1. Photograph
2. Before drawing
3. Shape-puzzle
4. Value scale & Sphere
GOALS: 2 Spheres: one colored, one black and white
Value Scale, Labeled Sphere with valeue elements
5. Color map/line drawing on grid
6. Revision – no color/contour drawing
7. Final – with value and shading
8. Reflection and Review
KEY KNOWLEDGE: You will review and know:
- How to apply proper proportions to accurately depict the human form and the steps to create a self-portrait that closely resembles physical attributes and aptly communicates your personality.
- The Golden Mean also known as the divine proportion or golden section is a number often encountered though out nature. The Ancient Greeks usually attributed discovery of this concept to Pythagoras or his followers as they discovered the frequency of the ratio’s appearance in the geometry of nature around them.
- The Grid Method: low-tech way to reproduce and/or enlarge an image that you want to paint or draw. The grid method can be a fairly time-intensive process, depending on how large and detailed your painting will be. While the process is not as quick as using a projector or transfer paper, it does have the added benefit of helping to improve your drawing and observational skills.
- In a nutshell, the grid method involves drawing a grid over your reference photo, and then drawing a grid of equal ratio on your work surface (paper, canvas, wood panel, etc). Then you draw the image on your canvas, focusing on one square at a time, until the entire image has been transferred. Once you're finished, you simply erase or paint over the grid lines, and start working on your painting, which will be now be in perfect proportion!
- How to gain value and self-worth and understand that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to.
- How to compare and contrast the merit of your work using your before drawing to a final drawing and recognize and reflect on the effects of arranging visual characteristics. How has your art improved over a series of practical applications? How can you apply these applications to all areas of learning?
- How to participate in critiques and identify strengths and areas needing improvement in one another’s work.
- Develop vocabulary: Self-portrait, proportion, composition, scale, ratio, golden mean, tone, shade, identity.
- Use line and shape to represent facial structures and implied textures.
- Discover other portrait artists and their unique techniques. Chuck Close, Leonardo Da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt
MAGNET THEME CONNECTION:
Mechanical Engineer and Professor Adrian Bejan who developed a new law of physics governing the design of matter as it moves through air and water states, “Cognition is the name of the constructual evolution of the brain's architecture, every minute and every moment. This is the phenomenon of thinking, knowing, and then thinking again more efficiently. Getting smarter is the constructal law in action." Bejan also states “Many artists since the Renaissance have proportioned their work in accordance with the golden ratio or "divine proportion", particularly in the form of the golden rectangle, which has informed Leonardo's work. It describes a rectangle with a length roughly one and a half times its width.
The grid method: http://www.art-is-fun.com/grid-method.html Golden Mean: http://engineerofknowledge.blogspot.com/2009/05/golden-ratio.html
Golden Mean in relationship to art & science: http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibInArt.html Scale and proportion: http://www.sophia.org/design-in-art-scale-and-proportion-tutorial
Facial proportions and drawing lessons: http://thevirtualinstructor.com/facialproportions.html