Line Portraits 

This project has so many options for variation! I began this project with inspiration from two artists, Lui Ferreyra, and Kris Trappeniers.

Lui Ferreyra is an artists who works largely in portraiture and his fragmented prismatic portraits are absolutely beautiful!

The other artist we looked at is a Belgian based artist named Kris Trappeniers. He creates these wonderful continuous line portraits and sometimes even with extreme patience and precision cuts them out with an X-acto knife.

For this project, we began by practicing out continuous line drawing skills. Many times students feel this is a most difficult task as they want to pick up their pencil, especially whilst drawing a portrait. I had them look at a simple contour line drawing of a face and complete a practice drawing of that face using a continuous line. 

After our continuous line practice, we ventured into the proportions of the face. We looked at a video from youtube showcasing the proportions when drawing a side profile view face. Next I gave them a tutorial on how to draw the proportions of a face in a frontal view. 

Once we have practiced with proportion and continuous line we talk about the options students have for their project and the materials they might need to complete it.

Materials: 

Pencil

Paper (white, brown, watercolor etc) 

Colored pencils, paint, marker, etc

 Sharpie (optional)

Magazines for collage (optional) 

Requirements: 

Students must choose a photograph of a person to be able to draw a portrait from observation ( itcould be someone they know, themselves or an image from someone on the internet) 

Students must consider proportion when drawing their portrait. 

Students must utilize continuous line in some way on their artwork (on the portrait itself or in the background)

Students must utilize some sort of color.

Options:

Create a background utilizing sharpie, watercolor, collage or any other type of material. 

Extension activity:

Students can utilize Google Drawings, or even Google Slides to create the following extension project.

Students will begin by saving a photo of a person and uploading it into whichever platform they are using (slides or drawings) 

Using the scribble tool, they will create continuous lines on and around the face and neck of their chosen portrait. 

The continuous line should intersect in different areas over the face to create new shapes. 

Using the line tool, students will select different colors and create repeated lines in each space on the face that was created by continuous line. 

Students are currently working on this project but please check back for more student examples :)