Half portrait drawing, sketchbook

Purpose:

To look closely at half of a portrait and complete the portrait by drawing similar features;

To practice drawing facial features: eyes, nose, and mouth

I overall enjoyed this assignment a lot because a regular pencil is my medium, and I enjoy drawing faces. By completing this assignment I learned how hard it can be to create one side of a face from the other. It involves more than just inverting the facial features. You have to also figure out the different shadow, or lightness of the other side of the face, while given one side to start with. All in all, this assignment opened my eyes to visualizing what I think is right, and then drawing it.