Art III Students Draw Live Self-portrait

Kenzie Baldwin
Feature Editor

Art student Mica Post working on a graphite drawing. Photo by Kenzie Baldwinn.

In Art III the students are expected to draw their faces. They get to use a mirror to look at themselves as they draw, the art utensils they were given were pencils, shading pencils, erasers and sharpeners. The purpose of this piece was to draw themselves and imperfections they had, also everything needed to be scaled correctly. This specific art piece is a challenge for some and a self esteem boost for others.

            “It makes me feel different about my face because I realized my philturn (the indent under the nose) is deeper than I thought it was and my ears are bigger than I had thought,” said junior Mica Post. The students try hard to make themselves look as good as they can and accurate.

            “It definitely was a learning experience...it was a challenge for me because I want to make the piece look better than the picture actually looks,” said Post.  It is all about proportion sizes, if one thing is off, everything looks off.

            “Proportion sizes are a challenge when drawing faces because eyes have to be bigger, lips have to be bigger and fuller and ears have to be smaller than they actually are,” said Post.