We’ve been focused for the past six weeks on drawing a face as you see it facing straight forward. Now we’re going to turn the head to the side and learn to see and draw the face in profile. To begin, look at the image below. What do you see? What did you see first?…
Emotions! We all have them. Now let’s learn how to draw them! Happy, sad, angry, scared, surprised, bored, confused, silly Look in the mirror or partner up with someone in your household. Make very exaggerated faces to express different emotions. Pay attention to the location, direction, and shape of the different parts of the face…
Get it? All together? Toget… Hair? Now? Okay, maybe I should stick to making art instead of jokes. 😜 Aloha my Awesome Artists! How’s it going for you today? Good hair day? Bad hair day? “Haven’t even looked at my hair” kind of day? One of the many things I enjoy about art is that we…
Today I’m going to talk about something difficult. Shame. (Video transcript below) It’s totally normal to feel embarrassed or frustrated by your art. To feel like “I’m no good at drawing faces,” or” I can’t do this,” or even, “I suck at art.” Everyone has thoughts like that. The key is knowing that these feelings…
Take a Break Hi! Before we start, can I ask you something?Are you as tired as I am? Has this last week seemed like it lasted a month? It’s… been a lot. That’s okay. Art can help. I like to just scribble sometimes. Make lots and lots of different sized circles. Cover a page with…
You’ve made it to the second day of Art Camp! Today we’re going to look at all the different parts of our faces. Try drawing each part of the face separately. Don’t worry yet about putting them all together, go ahead and draw them all over the page. You can start by drawing just one…
Welcome to the first day of “Making faces” Art Camp! Your goal this week is to simply find your starting point. Look for a photograph, drawing, or painting of a face you enjoy. To help, I created a Making Faces art collection on Google Arts And Culture with a wide variety of artworks from different time periods and places. You…