Personal Interest Portraits

I love this project!  I use it as an icebreaker for the first few days of class.  I got the idea from a fellow classmate while I was working towards my Masters in Education.  

Step 1: Photograph the student.

Step 2: Upload photograph into Photoshop and change the image to black and white.  You want to have strong shapes and shadows in the image.

Step 3: Students overlay a white piece of paper over the image and trace all the black spaces with a pencil.

Step 4: Students use fine tipped Sharpies to write about themselves and fill in the areas they traced.

As you can see, this project is open to the student's interpretation!