8th Grade: Scale Drawings focusing on Principles of Design

Carmel's 8th Graders put incredible time and effort into portraits of some of their favorite celebrities while focusing on Principles of Design such as Contrast, Emphasis, and Balance. Students chose images of their favorite pop culture icons that they then enlarged through drawing. To do this, they created a grid on the original image, and then a larger but proportionate grid on their drawing paper, so that they could recreate the image box-by-box. This enabled the students to achieve a nearly photorealistic effect.