"Headless" Self-Portraits

Preview of Art 2's Headless Self Portraits

For this year's drawing quarter, I wanted the students to focus on creating a self portrait.  However, instead of creating another frontal view drawing of their faces, I wanted the students to create a more abstracted idea of a self portrait. 

For this project we were focusing on the element of art-value and the principle of design-emphasis.

The students were required to bring in 2 objects that represented themselves and their personalities; they must be able to interact with these objects in order for a photo to be taken of the students and their objects.  

We had a range of objects brought in everywhere from soccer balls to polished rocks found during a family trip, the students were very eager to get started.  

Last year the students use a grid to help them draw their portraits, this year I wanted the students to try to see the correct proportions without the assistance of a grid or guidelines.  

Here are some sneak peaks at what our students have been working on. 

The students are about halfway through this project.
One of their 2 objects will be colored in to create emphasis.