Title: The Portrait

Grade Level: Drawing & Art Foundations
Objective: You will be able to identify the 3 main portrait views and be able draw a realistic human head. Student will be able to understand the importance of the portrait as a symbol of the time it was crated and as a statement of who the sitter was as a person.

Strategies:

• Materials: Photographs of each portrait view sketchbooks
  9x12 white paper #2 and ebony drawing pencils
• Resources / References:
  Gallery CD: Portrait section prints student samples
• Text: “Discovering Drawing” handouts
• Vocabulary: Front View Profile ? view shadow
• Time Frame: 1 block for each view and final makeup block

Procedure:

1.Introduce view

2.Draw in sketchbook a class face assignment utilizing

• a.Correct placement of features
• b.Correctly drawn features
• c.Shading added to show form
• d.Face drawn in proportion.

3.Draw a face of your choosing on 9 x12” white paper using information learned with class drawing.
Grading Criteria:

• 1.Features placed correctly.
• 2.Features drawn correctly for view presented.
• 3.Head drawn in correct proportion.
• 4.Accuracy – likeness to person or photograph.

Rubric: (TK)

Submitted by Nancy Lennon (nnd)
Middleborough Public Schools Fine Arts Department
Middleborough High School Visual Arts Program