Whose face should I use for an art project?

Question

It's a pencil drawing, and I just cannot decide whose face I should draw. I'm looking for interesting faces, not necessarily famous ones (although that would be fine too).

Answer 1

I recommend a self-portrait.  Pull up a mirror, set up your light from the side, and get ready to wow them with your skill at shading, contours and features.  My avatar is my most recent self-portrait in pastels. . . . and i am my best model, cuz' I will sit still as long as necessary!  

Plan to do several. . . try a countour drawing where you don't look at your pencil, but instead intently look at the image while you draw.  It will be all sorts of squiggles that may not make sense, but it is a great warm up exercise.  Then try suing few lines, but the side of your pencil to block in shadow shapes lightly at first, deepening them until you are doing details.  then try a drawing, using a lightly sketched blocked-in underdrawing, to which you add shading and details.  Do not draw the eyes right away until you have the face shape and features correct. . . .same with the nose, mouth, hair.  Most drawings suffer because there is uneven detail, and the whole thing is detailed before the proportions are even close to correct.  

Here are some good examples for you to study:

http://adam.t.bull.googlepages.com/Life_...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/37/912918...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/40/878927...

http://www.drawmyface.co.uk/images/drawi...

And here is a good illustration why you want to block in and get proportions and feature placement right before adding shading and details:  http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=h...