My 8th grade students worked for several weeks on drawing the human face. We began with simple sketching, going over proportions of the face---and then I let them draw. Then we had to back track :-) It was very difficult to break them from the mold of creating eyes without eyelids---not putting the eyes in the forehead area, and not being afraid to really look at themselves. Which for many 8th graders is very difficult. I had students go through many magazines and find different noses, eyes and mouths and just draw them over and over again. It seemed to really help—they weren’t focused on how they look or the overall picture---just the individual objects. It was a great drawing exercise.
All the examples below are self-portraits with the exception of the last image which is a portrait of a famous actress from the show Revenge (Never watched the show, but the drawing turned out really great)
