Visual Communication: Step 1 - Drawing Myself

After I had finished the mind map the next stage was to start the drawings. By using pictures that I took of myself I was able to use them as guidance to enable me to exaggerate my face further. This proved quite difficult and my drawings ended up looking more cartoony than exaggerated. They also ended up looking like Hermione crossed with Rapunzel. 


This is my first page of my drawing which i did while in class. I find it quite hard to do work when in front of people i find it easier to sit at home and not share my work with anyone, this is probably just because of my personality. 

For the first sketches i used a Prismacolor Col-erase pink pencil just so i could get the base lines down before i committed with a stronger colour when it would be harder to rub it out. I really like using these pencils because it lets you create a soft line for all the guideline marks on the face and you can either rub them out of just leave them.

So after i did these i got a good idea of what style i wanted to go for and in this case its just my normal drawing style. I also knew from this which parts i wanted to exaggerate. So personally i think my hair is probably my most noticeable feature which is why in my character the hair will be quite exaggerated.


Once i had done these drawings in class, like i said, i went home and did another page with a few changes in the angles i used which also better reflected my features because its my normal 'Selfie' angle so to me it felt more recognisable. 

Here is the page i was just talking about. As you can see the drawings look slightly more realistic than the ones in the previous image which is probably why i prefer this page. 

Once again i used my Col-erase but this time i used a blue. Sometimes i decide that i don't want to go over the lines so i just keep it as it is. This does prove more difficult when posting on here because the lines aren't as strong but in my sketch book i think this really works. 

I'm not sure if you can read them on here but i always write notes around my drawings (force of habit from college) but its actually really helpful for me and who ever looks through my work, just to see what i think of a drawing. Even though it might be hard its always good to pick up on things that you did wrong just so it helps you improve. For example in these ones i told myself to 'make sure the forehead is not too small and the face is longer' which heps the character look older.

So now that i had done these pages it would be easier for me to get an idea of my characters facial features and how i wanted her to look.                                                                                               

Side note: I'm sorry for the quality of photographs on this page. I tried to edit them in Photoshop to get rid of the tint but it i couldn't get the contrast right.