Monochromatic artwork

These self portraits have been drawn using lead pencil. Darker areas have been achieved by using softer leads such as 2B and 4B. Lighter areas using a harder lead such as HB.

We Started doing this drawing by doing a grid on the page the boxes had to be six boxes down and four across. The reason for this was to make the drawing as accurate as possible it helped to get the lines right to where they should be.  We used pencils light and dark the light was to do the outline of my face and the dark was for the shading and my hair.  The dark was also to shade the back round of the drawing.  What i learned doing this drawing is to draw what you see not what you think you see.