Exercise 4.6 Vase Face Drawing
For this exercise, you will use a mirrored facial profile to create a drawing that looks like a vase. This gives you a good opportunity to try out your viewfinder to compare your subject to your drawing. The finished product will create two matching vases, similar to the example below.
Materials needed:
- pencil – HB
- eraser – white
- viewfinder
- wet or dry erasable marker
- paper – 1/4 of a page in your sketch book
Time to complete: 30 minutes. Use the full 30 minutes to work on this exercise.
Directions:
- All work will be done in one of the four sections of one sheet in your drawing pad. Try to fill the drawing area in as much as you can.
- Look at the images below. Draw each facial profile twice, one profile on each side of your drawing area. This initial drawing should look similar to how you see it below. For this step, try to get as close as you can to the two profiles. Do not copy or use your viewfinder. Draw this freehand by observation only. Space these out as far as you can on the left and right of the drawing area. Concentrate on only one at a time.
- Draw the other side of each facial profile to finish the other sides of the two vases you started to create in step two. In this step, you will be completing your two vases. Again, only concentrate on one vase at a time.
- Take a photo of your drawing at this point before going any further. This photo file will be handed in through a separate submission area.
- Place and hold your viewfinder on top of your computer monitor that has the below images on it. With your erasable marker lightly trace one of the facial profiles below. Only one side is needed and the size does not matter, but the bigger the better.
- Hold up your viewfinder and line it up with each side of your two vase drawings to see how close you got. Notice how you can zoom in and out with your viewfinder by moving it closer or farther away from the drawing. Now tip or rock the viewfinder side to side and front to back. Note how the proportions of the vase change between the viewfinder and your drawing. This is to show how important it is to keep the viewfinder in the same plane as your paper.
- Make any alterations to the profile of each side of the face/vase if needed.
- You should now have two matching vases.
