How To Draw Someone Taking A Selfie

When trying to create your portrait, recall of what makes yous distinctive, or what makes you look unlike from anyone else. What's your hair-color and hairstyle? If you lot always wear your hair in pigtails, then yous'd definitely want to bear witness your hair up, instead of down. What color are your optics? Practise you lot wear glasses? Is there a favorite hat or wearing apparel that you e'er wear? Peradventure you're known for wearing a bow in your hair, or red boots. If someone saw you lot down the street, how would they know it was you? If you were a character in a book or tv testify—who wears the same matter all the time—what would y'all vesture? Also, consider adding details such as your home, or pet or beloved things (sports equipment, toys, etc.) that are special to yous and help tell the viewer about you.

Just in case you need some inspiration, hither are 5 ideas for creating your self-portrait:

ane. Make a Mirror-Image. Sit in front of a mirror, as Norman Rockwell did, and render your reflection.

2. Dupe the Other One-half. Impress out or photocopy a snapshot of yourself, fold in half, identify onto some other piece of newspaper, and draw the other half. Like Jimmy the cat did here:

3. Pretend to be Picasso'due south Muse. Take a look at a few of Picasso'due south portraits below: {from left to right: Portrait of Dora Maar, 1937; Girl Before a Mirror, 1932; Seated Woman (Marie-Thérèse Walter), 1937}, and attempt your hand at Cubism, a style of art that the artist made famous.

Have notation of the way he seems to combine both frontal and side views of a face. Here's Jimmy'due south interpretation:

4. Make a Minecraft Mosaic. Take some grid newspaper, and sketch your hair, eyes, and mouth, using only the squares as a guide. Then fill in with colour. This is a proficient practice in reducing details to simple shapes.

Variation: If you want to try a more detailed version, have a wait at this Self-Portrait by Chuck Close:

Prototype Credit: © Chuck Close, Courtesy Pace Gallery

5. Cartoonize Yourself. You don't need a Simpsons Avatar Generator to create your own drawing character. Take note of their distinctive details as yous're drawing:

The round optics. Add together eyelashes if yous're a daughter. Annotation: If you wear spectacles, depict the glasses and and so add the dots for iris, so the glasses are combined with the eyeballs.

Other features such as the nose, mouth (with an exaggeratedly pronounced upper lip), and ears await like this:

And don't forget to add that trademark bright yellow.

Variation: Inspired by this Buzzfeed mail service, I created a Power Puff Girls version of myself:

Don't forget to bank check out these 10 Famous Faces for more inspiration and How to Draw Your Face up for rendering tips. Then enter your self-portrait in our Selfies show.