Portrait Drawing

What is a portrait?

• An artwork that shows animals.

• An artwork that shows land.

• An artwork that shows buildings.

• An artwork that represents or depicts a person, with strong emphasis on the face or head and shoulders.

When creating a realistic portrait, it is important to remember humans have hard, bold outlines like a cartoon.

• True

• False

When drawing a portrait, it is important to fill almost every space with value, and leave almost nothing white.

• True

• False

To draw accurate proportions, where do the eyes go on a human face?

• About 1/4 of the way down

• Right in the middle

• About 3/4 down from the top

To draw accurate proportions, where does the hairline go on a human head?

• About 1/4 down from the top

• In the middle

• About 3/4 down from the top

The eye length should be about ________ the width of the face.

• 2/3

• 1/2

• 1/5

• 1/16

The distance between the two eyes should be about the length of one eye.

• True

• False

To draw accurate proportions, where does the bottom of the nose go on a human face?

• About 1/4 of the way down

• In the middle

• About 3/4 of the way down

To draw accurate proportions, where do the ears go on a human head?

• On the side of the head, above the eyes

• On the side of the head, between the middle of the eyes and the bottom of the nose

• On the side of the head, below the nose

To draw accurate human proportions, how wide should the neck be?

• The width of the mouth

• Roughly the width of the head

• Wider than the head