Colored Pencil Portrait --on black paper-- “thinking backwards”

Colored Pencil Portrait--on black paper--

“thinking backwards”

• Print off a picture of yourself in room B201• Create a ONE-INCH grid on the photograph• Draw a .5 inch border• Create a 1.5 inch grid on your black paper• Label it• Draw your face!• Don’t forget the background

Draw your grid on your photo & on drawing paper

Find the colors that work for

your skin tone, don’t forget to

practice layering them!

Looking at the

photograph, start to identify

where colors go in the picture

(example: the fingers)

Make sure you are erasing the pencil lines as your color. Colored Pencils will pick up the graphite and mix it into

the color… this will ruin your picture!!!

Press hard with the colored

pencils to hide any black

paper showing through… no

dots!

Remember…

• Press hard on your colored pencils to blend them together and to hide the black paper– Don’t let the paper show through!

• You are not ONE color. Blend your colors!