This project was our self portrait project. We had to come up with an idea thay demonstrated either a strong emotion, a zombie take on ourselves, or ouselves part machine. I chose to do machine in pencil mostly because I've always loved the look of mechanics and the face that there's a lot you can do with the theme. My general idea was a pulled apart face that was attached to a metal stem. This grew a little more into the face pushed out and being controlled by a heart as a brain. I mostly did the heart as the brain becuse I feel like most of the time that's how I think and not only that, but it looks really cool too.
This was the beginning of my outline. I got the shapes of the head by printing my head out and cuting it all up to get the right proportions. I then placed them scattered apart and drew the heart in. The proportions had to be right and the placement done well for the whole thing to look good. When I started shading the heart I actually got really excited because it was looking sooooo cool. The veins on the heart were really fun to do and gave the heart a whole other deminision.
Another thing with the heart and stem, growing along the stem are veins leading up to the heart. I really liked doing that too becauae it gave the very flat mechanical outline something natural and living. A little contrast and I think that's why I like the heart brain so much.
The other parts being done were the nose and mouth, but unfortunately I don't have a picture to show the progress. Basically I just started shading the nose and mouth. Both of these were a little difficult for me to draw and shade mostly because I'm not too familiar with showing the roundness of the nose of the plumpiness of the mouth. On the nose, I do like the way it turned out with using a sort of circular strokes on the places it seemed to curve around.
The next thing to start on was the major parts of the face, starting with the eye. The eyes were fun to do, mostly because of all the different values you can use to show the roundness of the eye and how it's being covered up and how it's a little shiny. It's just really cool to show that texture through just a little pressure differences.
And nowwwww...
BAM. dun
So this is the final product! I really like how it turned out. Using pencil made it look kind of soft but still gave it a sharpness where it was needed. My favorite parts besides then whole thing are the heart and the broken eyes. I really like the shading on both of these and how I could achieve those different shapes and textures just by varying some pressure. I really enjoyed doing this project and I think it's been one of my best and one of the most interesting ideas I've had. It was executed well and I just love how it looks.