Description of My Portrait
by Bilal
Portrait of Me
recreated by Moonway
We'll start at the bottom of the paper and go until we are about an inch below the top. For the next steps you will use black paint and a fat brush. First draw arms that are four inches apart and five inches tall. Draw a neck two inches tall and three inches wide. Now we will draw the head. First draw a chin three inches wide and one and one half inches tall towards the left, rounded at the end. Then draw a smile above that, and a nose right above that. The eye is two inches diagonally from the nose. Put an eyebrow over the eye. Then draw a helmet with the part over the face raised up.
Now we are going to paint the colors. Paint the right arm light-blue, blue, and purple. The rest of the body is light-blue and blue. The neck is blue. The face is orange and yellow. The helmet is green, orange, light-blue, and blue all mixed together.
Now we are going to do the background. About six inches from the top, on the right, draw a line and then another line four inches from the top on the left. Above the line make a cloud two inches tall. The outline is blue. Now paint the sky purple, and the cloud green and orange. The rest of the background is green.
Analysis
by Bilal
I think that Moonway did the colors well, except for the face. The helmet, body, and arms are examples of what worked well.
Moonway did not understand that I was facing the left. Moonway used water colors, not paint. He didn't draw the chin three inches wide and it wasn't drawn one and half inches tall. The chin led up to the mouth on Moonway's drawing if you followed my directions. I should have said how big the mouth was. I should have said that the nose was regular, not like a triangle. I should have written that the eyeballs were black.
The background wasn't there probably because he didn't have time to draw it. It would have been much easier if Moonway drew the picture facing to the left.