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My second attempt at this. I tried two times to draw measuring proportions, but I just don't understand how to get it right - first measuring the ptoto with a pencil, then measuring again on the drawing introduces massive errors. I can see that my proportions are a bit off in this drawing, like the face should be a bit wider, but they were A LOT MORE off when I tried measuring. Hopefully watching more demos and critiques will help.
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A really important part of improving your observation skills is increasing the speed and frequency of feedback. While feedback from an instructor is great, that might not always be an option. In this demo, I'm going to show you how to take a drawing that you did and compare it with a photograph on your iPad in Procreate so that you can check your accuracy and increase the speed of your feedback loop and improve faster.
Related Links:
Drawing Measuring Techniques
How to Draw Accurate Proportions
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Time for a portrait drawing demo! I'll show you how to approach a drawing to get accurate proportions and then check your own accuracy in Procreate.
I usually take my drawings super slow (the musketeer assignment took over 2 hours for me), but I tried to follow along with Stan's tempo in this video. He's definitely waaay faster than I am at both thinking and line execution.
For the musketeer assignment, I meticulously measured every little corner so that I could get the proportions right, but for this one I did eyeball a lot of things, since Stan did too for a majority of his measurements.
I still seem to draw the nose (and this time the mouth as well) too low. I'll have to really look out for that.
For some reason I found this harder than the musketeer. The placement of the facial features were pretty off.
Thought I got it pretty close until I put it into procreate and got humbled.. oh well
Hello! Does anyone know how to do the overlay in Krita? I don't have access to Procreate or Photoshop.
The demo was cool, so I tried it myself. Picture 2 is me adding reference points for measurements (as I spend 3 sessions on that drawing). Picture 3 is the final results overlayed… looks like I used the wrong reference point when doing the face details :(
I didn’t measure at all for the neck, curls, ear and flowers, kinda rushing it. Still I’m happy with the results, especially the outer shape of the face, I struggled quite a bit with that one
Tried a another photo after watching demo feedback welcome, the head look smaller on my drawing
The head should be bigger than the deltoids. The length of the head measures from the chin to the chest.
I practiced 2 more images before this demo. I tried to stick with the measurement and not fall into my bad habit (bogged down to detail and deviate from what i was supposed to do). The first one didn't come out nice at all. Somehow my measurement got completely off for this lady. The Steve came out a bit better, at least the proportion looks closer to what it should be.
I checked the drawing in Procreate and it turned out it wasn't very close to the actual measurements. I'll keep drawing this week and checking my approximations in Procreate. I have a question about measurements. When measuring with a pencil, do you use a 1:1 scale or do you convert to another unit and then calculate using approximations of 1/3 or 1/2? Or both? I've never drawn using measurements before and I feel completely lost.
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Nice work Jose. To answer your question, for me when I measure using a pencil, I use a one to one scale, although you can do ratios too. As in most things with art, there is no one right answer. That said, a 1:1 is often the easiest to work with. There is also a tool called a proportional divider that is used specifically for doing ratios. I’ve used those as well and they are useful when there is a big size difference in what you’re observing and the size you are working in. Cheers!
Here's another one i made today. I tried to integrate all the measuring methods that were included in the last couple videos/lessons. The methods are really helpful!
It's pretty light but I prefer to do it this way for the lay in. Quite happy with the proportions
