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How to Draw similar Modigliani

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Learn how to draw like Modigliani and make an elegant and elongated self portrait. The exaggeration is half the fun!

Amedeo Modigliani was an Italian Jewish painter who lived in France in the early 1900s. He is possibly best known for his portraits that had a surreal elongation of faces and necks. The oddly graceful and haunting paintings were not very well received in their solar day, but in time take actually become highly acclaimed (and valuable!) masterpieces.

This project asks students to divide a narrow canvass of paper into four equal sections, then follow a formula for drawing a head, neck and shoulders. By using the creases as guides, they are forced to create a VERY stretched out look for themselves, which can be practical to their features too.

Information technology'due south a fun and easy way to get a very creative expect, and in my experience has always seemed to actually free students up. The tendency to want to depict "perfect" versions of themselves seems to disappear, which allows for a whole agglomeration of creativity and personality to creep in.

TIP: Use the first of course to remind students how facial proportion rules usually piece of work, before they offset this project which totally breaks them.

MATERIALS

How to Describe a Modigliani Self Portrait (click to download a PDF)
Drawing newspaper
Blackness mark
Crayons

DIRECTIONS

Time needed:thirty minutes.

How to Draw a Modigliani Cocky Portrait

Example of standard face proportions for comparison.
Cutting 24″ x 18″ paper to 8″ x eighteen″ panels. Fold paper to make grid lines. Depict an oval and add together a long neck.
Draw a shirt line and shoulders.
Add optics a niggling college than normal, and rima oris a piffling lower. Depict two ears.
Draw a nose that is stretched to fill the space. Add hair around the oval head. Erase top oval line.
Hair options: A solution for drawing short and curly pilus. Modify to match your own hair manner.
Trace with a marking and color. Printing hard until you no longer see any white on the paper.
A dark color palette will look the most similar Modigliani's paintings.