Portrait Drawing Round Robin
Teacher Peter Walsh led Trade School students in a vigorous round robin of portrait drawing. The class of ten people moved in a clockwise rotation every ten minutes so that by the end of the class, you had drawn the four other people at your table and also yourself. At the end of the class the students assembled two five by five grids of drawings of their classmates, by their classmates. We got to take home portraits of us as tokens of our participation.
The grid of portraits was truly an fascinating thing to behold because you can instantly observe what several people had picked up about a person. These commonalities reflect not only how a person appears to others, but also reflect the drawer’s own projections in his or her renderings in general. For instance, a student’s purple scarf appeared in all of the portraits of her. Another student’s portraits of others zoomed in very close on their faces, blowing them up dramatically on paper.
You can read more about Peter’s ongoing Portrait Round Robin on his site.
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