Portrait of Me

Description of My Portrait

by Michael


Portrait of Me

recreated by William P.


This portrait is drawn in the style of Vincent van Gogh. You will be using dark blue, green, black, pink, white, brown, and peach pastels on a 12" by 18" paper.

My portrait is full faced. My shirt is black-and-white striped. It goes up 3 and 7/8" from the bottom. My neck goes up 1 and 7/16" from the top of my shirt. My neck is peach mixed with gray, so it looks like I've been working in a coal mine. My chin goes up 1 and 3/8" from the top of my neck. There is a horizontal black line that's 9/16" long. There is a 3/16" pink line that goes around the black line. From the pink line go up 7/8" and there are two 1/4" diameter black dots right next to each other. For my hair, go up 1/2" and 2 and 1/8" to the side and go up with a 1/4" wide brown line for 3 and 1/2". Connect the two brown lines with a 1/2" brown line. The face is the same color as the chin. Put two eyes in the face even with the lower edges of the hair, 5/8" apart. Each eye is white around the outside, then brown irises, then black pupils inside. The right eye should be 1" across, but the left eye is half that size. The eyebrows are each two horizontal black lines about 1/2" above the eye with the right eyebrow twice as wide as the left.

The background is thick dark blue diagonal lines and thin green diagonal lines, starting from the lower left hand corner.

Analysis

by Michael

William P. did most of the background correctly. The colors were right. The hair is the right color, too. He gave me a black-and-white striped shirt, but the stripes were too big.

I described the mouth really well, but I didn't say it was the mouth. I could've said that the eyebrows were drawn with pastels too. My partner made me the wrong color.


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