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White-Hair Ink Portrait — Grade 5
Make a drawing on paper of refined original portrait using pale hair shapes, dark costume, and red eye accents for a chosen audience, with ethical inspiration notes, iterations, and an artist statement. Practice proportion and expression using drawing marks only. Choose your own details and arrangement.
Study the example for possibilities, then close or cover it. Your work should make different choices.
What to do
- Draw the subject for “White-Hair Ink Portrait — Grade 5” on one sheet of paper. Make two small pencil sketches and choose the clearer arrangement.
- Your core skill today: Compare two compositions and control the lesson’s drawing technique to create a focal point.
- On scrap paper, practice proportion and expression. Draw the head lightly and mark where the eyes and mouth go. Compare their size and spacing before adding the hair and smaller features.
- Lightly place the main shapes on the final paper. Pause to compare their positions and sizes before drawing small details.
- Draw the head lightly and mark where the eyes and mouth go. Compare their size and spacing before adding the hair and smaller features.
- Look from a little farther away. Redraw one unclear line or adjust the spacing, mark direction, or pencil pressure.
- Finish with drawing marks only. Keep your trial sketch beside the finished drawing and point to the change that helped most.
My drawing subject: White-Hair Ink Portrait — Grade 5.
Draw two small arrangements. Circle the one you will use.
Mark test: Show how you will use proportion and expression.
Draw the large shapes in their planned positions.
Detail study: Practice one difficult part before adding it.
Revision: Circle a line, shape, or value that you improved.
My strongest drawing choice was…
Skill evidence: Compare two compositions and control the lesson’s drawing technique to create a focal point. Show your test and explain what you chose; speaking or dictation is welcome.
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