Hockney Faces

For the past few weeks we started on a project containing are faces. First of all we took at least 20 photos and made all of the photos into black and white so we can have value into count. After we did that we played with the pictures in an app called Picollage, until we had this face of randomness with all angles stuck together. Like this: 

After we did this process, we printed this face on a big piece of paper specifically a A3 paper. Then we chose different parts of the rectangles to draw with pencil/graphite. I did four things to draw. I drew the eyes, shirt, nose, hair, and mouth.

This is one of the piece that I drew. I made three others containing the things I mentioned, but apparently I didn't take pictures. After all this, if we finished drawing all the components of this project , we used a styrofoam thing to elevate the piece of paper of our drawings. Then we glued the final product to a black peice of paper. And we're done. Before I show you my final product, I just wanted to tell you where this all started. It started from a guy named David Hockney.

He is known for his photo collages and paintings of Los Angeles swimming pools, David Hockney is considered one of the most experienced British artists of the 20th century. And it says that when he was a kid he really loved books and was interested in art in such a small age. He referred to his first paintings by the knowledge he has been thought and then later he made collages similar to this project. And my final product:

15''*11'' graphite on rag paper

I think I did very well on the shading part of this project, and the reflection of the eye.  I think I should've work on not making those lines that can't be removed, which is caused by the wood part of the pencil. Overall I learned how to use tools, and how to make an eye. I really enjoyed this project along with talking those pictures. Hope you like it.