3rd Grade Self Portraits

3^rd grade students started by focusing on and sketching the 4 primary facial features of the mouth, eyes, nose, and ears.  Next students used their own photograph, which was cut along the line symmetry to help students focus on drawing one half of their face at time.  Using the skills they had developed while focusing on facial features students made every effort to try and create a realistic drawing of themselves.  The student finished by really trying to capture the way light reflects off their face and how to use light and dark pencil value to make it appear as realistic as possible.

Medium: Pencil and paper