Distorted Stipple Portraits

Assignment

Your assignment is to create a portrait drawing of a person that is distorted and then shade the portrait using the stippling technique.

Objectives:

I can use alternative marks to create value
I can use distortion to create a composition
I can create texture using stippling

Examples:

O. Gattie, 2024

Art Inspiration

Xavir Casalta

Tens of Millions of Ink Dots Fill Xavier Casalta's Remarkably Detailed Stipple Illustrations — ColossalIt took Xavier Casalta a phenomenal 2,300 hours over the course of 15 months to complete his largest work to date.

David Hockney:

Home photography ideas: Make montage portraits worthy of David HockneyCreate portrait montages like David Hockney's classic series, either as physical prints or in the digital domain

In Class Practice

Stippling Value Scale - 15 points

shading-value-scale-worksheet_401991.jpg.pdf

Create a 10 step value scale using sharpie and stippling

Shade the sphere using stippling

Portrait Feature Practice- 15

Objectives:

Students will practice drawing the proportions of an eye, lips, and hair texture.
Students will develop the forms of facial features with value- stippling
Students will create a range of values by stippling

Directions:

In your sketchbook, stipple an eye, lips/mouth, and hair texture

OR

You can draw an entire portrait in stippling if you do it fairly small and prefer to practice as a whole face rather than broken into parts

Stipple an Eye- 5 pts

Directions:

Take or find a reference photo of an eye (eyeball and socket)
Layout the outline of the eyeball lightly in pencil
begin going in with stippling and shading in darker areas
build in medium and lights
try to create a smooth transition of value

Stipple a Mouth - 5 pts

Directions:

Take or find a reference photo of a mouth
Layout the outline lightly in pencil
Begin going in with stippling and shading in darker areas
Build in medium and lights
Try to create a smooth transition of value

Stipple Hair Texture- 5 pts

StippledHairTexture.wmv

Planning & Design

Objectives:

Students will use a phot editing program to distort a photo
Students will create an image with a full range of value

Directions:

Create a reference photo using the distortion tool of your choice
Your original image needs to be transformed well beyond it's original
Apply a digital grid over the image and print it out
Upload a picture of your distorted reference photo to the assignment on Google Classroom.

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Types of Distortion: Digital

Photomontage:

Repetition/Color effects

Combining multiple images:

Digitally Distorting your Image

Distorting by Cutting Shapes from Original- Pixlr.com.mp4

Distorting by cutting up the original photo using the "cutout" tool.

Distorting by Creating Cut Outs- Pixlr.mp4

Distorting by using the "Cutout" tool to cut shapes OUT OF the original, transform, and resize.

Distorting with Liquify Tool and Filters- Pixlr.com.mp4

Using the "Liquify" tool and filters.

Types of Distortion: Manual

Stretching horizontally

Using the grid method, draw a larger grid measurement on the top.

Stretching vertically

Using the grid method, draw a larger grid along the side of your enlargement.

Two photos spliced together

Using two copies of your photo, slice them and combine them together.

Cut photograph

Cut up your photo into pieces, arrange the pieces how you want.

Enlargement

Directions:

1. Draw a 1" grid over your original photograph OR use the online grid drawing tool by ArtTutor to digitally place a grid over your photo.

2. Determine how many boxes you have going across the top and down the side of your grid.

3. Take those two numbers and multiply them by a series of different increments to determine a variety of measurements for the final board

4. Look at your different measurements now and choose how many times you want to enlarge your image.

3. Draw your enlarged grid onto the bristol board.

Video directions for creating a grid digitally:

Example:

Grid= 8x7 boxes

X 1.5" = 12 x 10.5 "

X 1.75 = 14 x 12.25"

X 2 = 16 x 14 "

X 2.25 = 18 x 15.75" <---- I like these dimensions!

X 2.5= 20x 17.5"

SO... your board would be 18 x 15.75 " and your grid would be measured every 2.25 inches!

Video directions for Drawing Grid Manually

Drawing a Grid Over Reference Photo Using a Ruler and Pencil.mp4

Grading

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