Value Portrait

The process of creating my value portrati began by tracing the face onto a piece of tracing paper and and then colored the back of it in pencil and transferred the drawing into my sketchbook. Then, I shaded in all the different values with a pencil. I also went back and tried to blend the values together at the end.

To find the different values, I put the picture and the tracing paper against a window so the light would allow me to see all the different shades and highlights in the face. Then, I traced the outlines of the values onto my tracing paper. While I was shading, I found some values in the picuture that I had missed and shaded those too.

I don't think I achieved a full range of the different values. I included most of them; however, I didn't do a great job of blending them. It was difficult to blend the values and some of the values turned out darker or lighter than they were supposed to be.

I worked hard on my portrait and did the best I could but, I need more practice in order to craft my artwork neatly. I already mentioned that my blending wasn't the best, and I thought the values in the hair especially, could have been blended better to make it look closer to the actual picture.The values on the face looked a little better than the hair, but some of the values were too dark and weren't blended well with the lighter values.

The most difficult part of the value portrait was shading in the values. I thought it would be easy but it turned out to be tricky. There were so may values, and I had to focus and pay a lot of attention to the little details, which was a bit frustrating sometimes.