MANGA PORTRAITS: WINTER BREAK HOMEWORK

Hello all,

I hope that you enjoy working on this during your holiday break.  This assignment is a continuation of our unit on portraits.  This will cover Japanese Animation or Manga Style, as it is more commonly known.

Your OBJECTIVE:

You will be able to synthesize your knowledge of line, shape, form, and recently acquired knowledge of facial features in order to create a unique Manga style portrait that incorporates detailed facial features, correct proportion, and hairstyle with the help of several Manga style sample portraits.

Materials you will need:

• Pencil
• Blank paper (no lines)
• Eraser
• Black Pen or Sharpie
• Markers, colored pencils, or?

YOUR TASK: CREATE A PORTRAIT IN MANGA STYLE
 It must include the following:

• convincing facial expression
• accurate proportions of eyes, nose, mouth, and ears
• specific hairstyle
• one other interesting element
• must NOT be an exact copy of one of the samples
• do not draw on notebook paper

 After your drawing is finished you must create a profile for it.  Just like Manga characters, your portrait must have a story.  

• Name
• Place of birth
• age
• background story
• occupation
• characteristics
• personality traits

Make sure that your character's profile is at least a paragraph in length.  When your drawing and profile are finished, take a picture of your drawing and post it to this blog along with your character profile.  Next, you will look at the drawings and character profiles of your peers and provide a friendly and respectful criticism of their drawing and character profile.  

Guidelines for responding to peers:

• Say what you like 
• Give suggestions 
• Say what you dislike 
• how did your peers use the elements and principles of art?  
• How is line, shape, form, color, value, proportion, texture, contrast, etc, used?
• How is it different from yours?
• Ask questions
• This should be at least 2 sentences. 

Instructions for uploading your picture:

After you take your picture, email it to yourself and save on to your desktop.  Next, click on the little picture icon displayed by the red arrow below.

 This will open the screen below.

Click on "choose files" and then look for the image on your desktop.  Once it is loaded you will then have to click on the image and then hit "add selected."  This will place your image in the blog.  If the image is too small or too big just click on it and it will give you options to change size and also to align it to the right, center, or left.

Email me if you have any questions: jesus.martinez@animo.org


Below are step-by-step drawing exercises that will help you with this assignment.  

Email me if you have any questions: jesus.martinez@animo.org