A. Learning Goals
1. Content: 1) Students will analyze the Essential Question: “What relevance is the Renaissance period to realistic portrait drawing?” 2) Students will learn of the Historical importance of Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli as Portrait Artists during the Renaissance, as well as contemporary and current examples from professional and student portrait artists. 2) Students will learn how to create a basic portrait guideline, position and draw in human face features.
2. Language: 1) Read, discuss, analyze the Essential Question. Select and write answers from a pre-questioning study guide portrait activity; 2) View and write notes on a Portrait Presentation showing Historical, current professional and student portrait images. Discuss and interpret new terminology; 3) Draw a proportionately aligned face features by selecting, analyzing and validating reasoning from sufficient evidence. 3a) Differentiated students will apply a guideline template under a page in sketchbook prior to drawing their face features.
B. Relevance: Students will understand the relevance why light and shadow is important when creating a 3-dimensional realistic portrait; understand correct reasoning behind sfumato and chiaroscuro techniques, and each student will see sufficient evidence why portrait guidelines should be used for proper face feature positioning, especially if there is no grid method used.
1. Realistic
Portrait Drawing
-Part II-
1. Portraits
in History
3. Getting
Started:
Positioning
& Measuring
2. Contemporary Portrait
Artists & student examples.
5. Interactive
Mona Lisa
& Tidbits
4. Drawing the
Portrait:
Features & Tonal
Drawing
Presented by Mrs.Chojnacky (part I was face features)
3. One of the
Most
Famous
Portraits in
History!
The
Mona Lisa
By Leonardo da
Vinci (1503-1506),
Oil Painting on
panel, permanent
collection at the
Louvre, Paris,
France.
4. Leonardo da
Vinci and other
artists were part
of the Italian
Renaissance.
The Renaissance was a
cultural movement that
sparked realism and
human emotions in art. It
profoundly affected
European intellectual life
from 1400-1500’s.
Beginning in Italy, its
influence was felt in
literature, philosophy,
art, music, politics,
science, religion.
5. Here is a portion of the
painting “The Birth of
Venus” by Sandro
Botticelli, 1486, drawn
20 years earlier to the
Mona Lisa.
6. Here is Botticelli’s full painting “The Birth of
Venus”, c. 1486, created during the early
period of the Renaissance.
Painting hangs in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.
8. Look closely in these BW
versions… Write down 2 artistic
techniques that Leonardo da Vinci
uses in Mona, but Botticelli falls
short of in this portrait of Venus.
9. Leonardo da
Vinci also used
a technique
called
Chiaroscuro,
which means
creating a
skillful balance
of light and
dark in a
painting, with
strong
contrasts to
create
dramatic
effect.
Leonardo da
Vinci broke
through the
flat-like
portraiture
by creating
subtle
gradations
of tone
which were
used to
subdue
sharp edges
and create
3-D form
called
Sfumato.
10. You have
been learning
to draw the
Chiaroscuro,
dramatic
effects of light
and dark by
pushing the
gradient
values on a 10
point scale;
with the
Goddess,
marshmallow
study, animal
and soon in
your portrait
assignment.
You have
been
learning to
draw using
the
Sfumato
technique in
your
Goddess
folds study,
your
landscape
study, your
animal.
You will
apply this
technique to
your
portrait.
13. 1506-10
1506-10
1506-10
1506-10
This is the full
painting of
The Virgin
and Child with
St. Anne.
1508-1510
where
Leonardo was
continuing to
create more
realistic-like
portraits
using
sfumato.
23. Portraits of 2010 model for an
advertisement & Adam Brody by
Annie Teubert, 1982
.
Currently resides in Germany- Very
Famous International Celebrity Portrait
Artist!
http://www.anne-teubert.de/start.html
61. Nose Wing width
Add a
rectangle
box from the
brow line,
down to just
above the
bottom nose
line…. This
is a
guideline for
the width of
the nose
wings. Hint:
It is ¼ of
the oval
width.
62. The red lines
are drawn
later. Start
from the
inner white
of the eyes
and down to
the lip line.
Mouth Width
Try to draw the
mouth (lips)
after the eyes
and nose are
drawn.
70. Brow Line:
Add another
horizontal line
ABOVE the
middle line, along
the inner top fold
of the ear.
Lower lip line:
Add another
horizontal line
1/2 way
between the
nose line & chin.
72. Nose width
& eye width:
The nostrils
will usually
be a little
wider than
the width of
one eye!
73. The red lines
are drawn
later. Start
from the
inner white
of the eyes
and down to
the lip line.
The mouth (lips)
should not be
drawn in until
the eyes and
nose are drawn.
74. The red and
orange lines
show the
width of
eyes and in
between.
Are they the
same?
Now, it is
your turn to
draw your
own portrait
guideline
resource!