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"Dye-Anna X4"
enhanced hand-drawing done in colored markers, colored pencils, and felt-tipped fine-line pens
When I taught school, one of the assignments the kids loved was to use a photo of a face from a magazine and to exaggerate/distort it. They had to look at the photo, but the resulting drawing wasn't supposed to look like the person. I kept telling them, "If it looks right, it's wrong."
I had the students draw a 4X5 grid on the photo and gave each a sheet of paper on which I had drawn curvy lines, some close together and some far apart, so when they drew the image into the grid, it would be distorted. The reason I drew the lines was because students would make the lines too dark and made slightly curvy lines that were about equal distance apart and the result wasn't very distorted, I made some spaces very small and some very large. I used some papers about 9X12, but some were longer and thinner and some square. Although I might have more than 100 students, drawing the lines didn't take a lot of time. I did it at home while watching TV or listening to an audio book. Most of their drawings ended up looking much more distorted than the one I show here.
Students colored with colored pencils in colors that a person could not be naturally: purple skin, yellow lips, green hair, etc. They were, however, required to look closely to see where the photo was lighter & darker, so they were learning about shading, too. The students seemed to have fun doing it. They had to be observant, but without the pressure to make something look realistic.
I drew this one in pencil without using a photo or a grid, simply tried to exaggerate features somewhat and not necessarily make them proportional, but never got around to coloring it until years later. I hand-colored the one on the bottom left. I scanned and adjusted it in Photoshop to 3 additiional color combinations.
(The Canon listed to the right is my scanner, not a camera.)
"Dye-Anna X4"
enhanced hand-drawing done in colored markers, colored pencils, and felt-tipped fine-line pens
When I taught school, one of the assignments the kids loved was to use a photo of a face from a magazine and to exaggerate/distort it. They had to look at the photo, but the resulting drawing wasn't supposed to look like the person. I kept telling them, "If it looks right, it's wrong."
I had the students draw a 4X5 grid on the photo and gave each a sheet of paper on which I had drawn curvy lines, some close together and some far apart, so when they drew the image into the grid, it would be distorted. The reason I drew the lines was because students would make the lines too dark and made slightly curvy lines that were about equal distance apart and the result wasn't very distorted, I made some spaces very small and some very large. I used some papers about 9X12, but some were longer and thinner and some square. Although I might have more than 100 students, drawing the lines didn't take a lot of time. I did it at home while watching TV or listening to an audio book. Most of their drawings ended up looking much more distorted than the one I show here.
Students colored with colored pencils in colors that a person could not be naturally: purple skin, yellow lips, green hair, etc. They were, however, required to look closely to see where the photo was lighter & darker, so they were learning about shading, too. The students seemed to have fun doing it. They had to be observant, but without the pressure to make something look realistic.
I drew this one in pencil without using a photo or a grid, simply tried to exaggerate features somewhat and not necessarily make them proportional, but never got around to coloring it until years later. I hand-colored the one on the bottom left. I scanned and adjusted it in Photoshop to 3 additiional color combinations.
(The Canon listed to the right is my scanner, not a camera.)