Enlarged Self Portrait

This is my finished assignment for my Drawing II class. We were assigned an enlarged self-portrait.

I chose my jaw and neck in order to challenge myself with differentiating between planes of the face. So often, drawing portraits becomes all about the features—eyes, nose, mouth—but the face comes to life in the planes of the cheek wrapping, the neck elongating, the chin coming forward, etc.

What do you think?

Maddie Skinner, Enlarged Self Portrait, 2010