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-: Hi there, I'm Janet Fagan, and we are gonna do a project

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exploring value on the face and head.

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So with portraiture you always have a model there.

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And that's you.

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So today we're gonna be looking at ourselves in the mirror.

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I'm in front of a nice big mirror here.

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But you can also use a hand mirror

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if you happen to have one at home.

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You can use a makeup mirror propped

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up on books like a little compact.

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You can even go sit in your bathroom.

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I love to do that, just sit in the bathroom

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in front of the mirror and draw.

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The other thing that's going to be really helpful

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for you today with this project,

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we're gonna be focusing on shadows and light or value.

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And if you have a clamp light like this one,

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that would be useful.

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If you have a bedside light or a lamp that you can use.

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Even a garage, like a clamp light.

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Any of those things; even a flashlight

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that you bungee cord to something

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so that it's up high and to one side of you.

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Any of those things will work.

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You just wanna find a way to get

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a nice light source on your face.

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And that's gonna make it a lot easier to see

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how your face is sculpted,

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basically by the lights and darks that fall upon it.

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So when we're talking about value,

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that's the artistic term for lights and darks.

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It's amazing how many different shades you can find

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on something when the light is hitting it well.

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And that's gonna be what I'm gonna ask you to do first.

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So let's just talk about our materials.

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And then we're gonna get started by observing our faces.

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So what I have on the table in front of me are my values.

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And I've created these values by taking a newspaper

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that everybody was finished with.

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(laughing) so nobody's gonna care that I ripped it up.

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And I looked for the darks.

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Okay, nice dark shades.

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The middle tones: So places in the paper that's not

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totally dark but it's not totally light either.

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And then, the lightest areas.

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And I made a pile of each.

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So my dark tones, my middle tones, and my light tones.

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And we're gonna use those to build

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the values of our portraits.

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But before we do that, like I said, we're gonna observe.

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So I have a clean sheet of paper here.

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You can use copy paper, you can use sketch book paper,

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whatever you have on-hand.

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It's nice if your paper is at least 8.5 by 11.

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It gives you a nice large surface to play with.

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I also have a couple of pencils and erasers,

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pencil sharpener, and a pair of scissors.

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So these are all things that'll come in handy.

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Oh, and a glue stick.

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So you'll definitely need one of these.

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Okay, so I'm gonna just start

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by observing myself in the mirror.

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I'm gonna take my glasses off.

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And I'm looking for the areas in my face

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that are, and my head.

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I'm gonna look at this whole thing.

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Where are the darkest darks?

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Where do I see the darkest darks?

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Well, I can see dark shadows all along

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this side of my hair is very dark.

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Where my hair meets my face is very dark over here.

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The underside of my hair.

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My nostrils, my eyeballs, corners of my mouth.

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Those areas I see some strong darks.

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I see a strong dark here on this side of my face.

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Within my face, the next value that I see,

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after those really dark hits of my nostrils and my eyeballs.

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I also see big shadow shapes on my forehead.

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I notice when I turn my face these triangles light up.

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So I can see these triangular areas.

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And above them are nice shadows.

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These nice shadow areas in the eye socket of my eye, okay?

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This side of my face is shadowed.

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And I see a big shadow falling across my torso.

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So I'm gonna take all of that information

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and just kinda store it for a minute.

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I've done some nice observing.

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I've kinda have an idea where the darks

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and middle tones are.

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And I'm gonna think about how I'm gonna layout

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my composition on my page.

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So without even picking up a pencil,

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I'm just imagining that I'm gonna

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probably make my face pretty large.

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Maybe show a little bit of my neck

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and a little bit of my shoulders.

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So I'm just kind of imagining touching my paper

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with my hands to get an idea of where I'm gonna go.

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And then I'm gonna take a pencil

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and I'm gonna sketch out some ideas.

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So a nice big oval for my head,

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cylinder for my neck, and a simple line for my shoulders.

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I'm also gonna just drop in a proportion map

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just to help me kinda find my way.

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So center line, mid-line where my eyes fall.

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Another halfway between my eyes and my chin.

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Mid-line for my nose, and another mid-line for my mouth,

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just to help me get set up.

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The next thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna

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lightly sketch out those big shapes

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of the shadows that we just found.

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So the areas where the light is making shapes.

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So the first thing I noticed was the

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big shadow on my forehead, my eye sockets.

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Lightly sketching those in.

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One side of my nose had a nice shadow on it.

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And then under my chin.

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The light's falling in a diagonal across my body.

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I'm also gonna make just a rough outline

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for where my hair is.

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You don't have to be detailed at this stage.

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Because really, all you're doing is giving

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yourself kind of a guideline for where

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you're gonna put your values in.

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Your portrait is gonna be defined

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by the paper that you have cut out.

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So I did all of these ahead of time.

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It's kind of a nice way to get started,

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is just to find a newspaper.

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Make some nice piles that you can

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work with before you drawing.

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And then you'll have them ready to go

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and you won't have to stop.

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All right, so the next step that I'm gonna do

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is to find all of my big, dark shapes.

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And I'm gonna put them in with the paper.

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So you'll see on your screen and example

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of what this looks like.

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This project takes a little bit of time.

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So I prepared this example ahead of time,

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so that you can get a feel for it.

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And then ill show you how I go there.

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Just briefly, I'll take a couple of steps here.

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So you can cut or you can tear these shapes.

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But what I'm doing is I'm just tryna

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fill in the darks that I defined.

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So I'm looking at this jawline where my chin is.

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And I'm gonna just tear the paper so that it makes

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kind of an echo of that.

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I can refine my tear with the scissors

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if I feel like I want to.

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But I'm not worrying about being perfect or exact.

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This is a fun project to let it happen loosely.

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It's fun to see the darks and the lights

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slowly start to fill the face.

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So right away, even just putting

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in this first sheet of dark shadow.

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Can already see how just by putting in that dark,

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I'm starting to define the face.

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So I'm just gonna keep going.

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Gonna continue to build this shadow like so.

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Okay, so as I continue to build the darks,

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I'm gonna start noticing that the dark shadows

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that I'm laying in come up against really subtle shades

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that maybe I'm not quite sure if

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they're a dark or a middle tone.

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So one of the way kind of make things a little clear,

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is when you observe and you're making decisions

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about where to put the shadows,

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squint your eyes like this.

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And when I squint, what happens is everything simplifies.

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And suddenly I see fewer subtleties.

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So I can really tell, ah okay,

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so the shadow under my neck really is

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just a little bit lighter than the tone behind it.

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The shadow of my jaw here is a little bit lighter

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than the tone of my neck.

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So I can start to make those decisions

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a little bit easier about what kind of paper to lay in.

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So I'm just gonna work on this for a couple of minutes.

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And then I'm gonna show you the next step.

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Okay, I've gone a little bit further here

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with my darks and I'm gonna start adding

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to this with some middle tones.

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So you can see on your screen,

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here's an example of what that starts to look like

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once you start getting the darks

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and the middle tones in together.

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You can really start to see the face taking shape.

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This is a project that you can

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definitely spend some time with.

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So what I've done, is I've gone

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all the way to the end at home

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so that I could show you what the finished

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portrait looks like, okay?

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And I have it right here as well.

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So this is an example of having all of the darks in

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and all of the middle tones in.

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And then leaving some of the white of the paper,

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just as an artistic decision.

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And also to define where the lightest light is hitting

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my portrait, my face.

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So here, the light's coming form this side.

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When I was at home it was doing the same thing.

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I was lit from this side.

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And so you'll see that that's where I have

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some empty space that I've only defined the edge

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of my hair with some of the middle tone,

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to show that the bright light is

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actually becoming the white of the paper.

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So this is a really fun project to do

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with yourself, or with a friend.

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You could look at someone while their watching TV

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or while their reading a book.

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If you have a captive audience for a while

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and you can define them with value as well.

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And what I would encourage you to do

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is just to observe lights and darks as much as you can.

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You'll have noticed that throughout the day,

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the way that the light hits objects

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or people is gonna change what you see and how they look.

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So light is a really fun thing to observe

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and to pay attention to because it really defines form

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and helps to create mood and expression.

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So have fun with it.

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Thanks for being here.

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And keep making stuff.

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