I am sure you all saw these wonderful self portraits last night at the Student-Led conferences. They form a very appealing wall of creativity in our classroom.
Through a directed drawing lesson students learned the proper positioning of facial features. It is a common tendency for young children to place the eyes way too high on the face. In actual fact they are centred in the middle of the face – from top to bottom. Eyes are not seen as round objects but are more almond-shaped. For proper positioning and sizing 5 eyes would fit from end to end across the face – of course, we only have the two!! The eyes should be in positions 2 and 4 (if we measured out 5 eye spaces). The tops of the ears are at the same height as the eyes and the bottoms of the ears line up with the mouth.
To become more accurate at the proportions in their drawing takes a great deal of time and practise. We will be working more on these drawing lessons in the next few weeks.