Portrait

Start Date: April 19 2012 Finish Date: April 20 2012

I wanted to do this project first because I like doing portrait drawings. I think the first portrait I did was in Art 1, when I drew Matt Dallas. I was really eager to draw this portrait of John Mayer. I started out by making a grid on both the blank paper and the reference paper, and then proceeded to shade from the bottom left corner. I was really nervous about doing the face -- I knew how to shade, but making faces has always been difficult -- and so I tried to save that until the end. All in all I feel good about this picture, I like it a lot.