These are completely intuitive and somehow I feel like there's more life to them. Less thinking and measuring. I'm measuring but very quickly with things that relate to one another and sometimes double-check with reference. Not exactly like the reference but capturing some kind of essence. Always up for some critique

Portraits are a different kind of beast, especially when it comes to defining the facial features. So many subtle nuances. In terms of proportions I feel I have a somewhat reliable eye but I'm seeing a lot of errors. Nothing but to continue practising

Tried it again it’s a little better I’d say. I was able to do one on my own after this attempt so it’s starting to sink in. Will keep on practicing!

I'm starting to grasp the concept of eyeballing

Mine turned ok. I think if I redid it I could get it much better. But I’m trying to keep myself from getting caught up on lessons trying to perfect things. So I’m gonna just go with this one. It was a lot of fun and between this and the measuring lesson I’ve learned a lot.

Practiced some portraits by eye-balling more like the demo. Prefer this approach as it gets some rough shapes on the paper quicker which I find easier to then measure and check.

This is only on eyeballing. Very minute measurements. So had to do a lot of adjustments along the way. One thing I am noticing is I am making the sketches more wider than linger and failing to catch it at the right time. Probably need to do a lot more to get this right. Any observations are welcome please . I myself am seeing improvements from the last two submissions. as I follow more videos but would like to get a more expert opinion.

After making the last project with lost edges of the skulls. I felt i needed to go back to this excercise to focus on proportions an measures again. So i did it with the skull. Pink lines are mine and the blue is from the photo (that i traced)

This one went a LOT better than the previous one. Eyeballing and using just a few guidelines for the patterns work better. It's because I kind of keep on looking at the whole picture all the time and olacing things in relation to multople reference points. In this case if I mess something up I do it for everying relativelly and as a result the mistake is not so obvious. That's my guess.

Didn't continue to do focus measure and it broke the face ! But I think I like this method.

Another attempt with a leopard this time. Closer than last time and a tiny bit more confident when doing it. Need to do more. I added some pictures of the process. I have a feeling it's too complicated but I'm figuring things out !

This is way better, I'm imagining triangles between parts and using them as points of reference. If the shape of the triangle looks a bit off I can correct kind of easily. That being said I got the proportion of the big shape (the head) too short and the head is effectivly, too short... I really need to find a way, I tried with the pencil method but it's a lot harder to be accurate with it than without ! I'm also using a lot the negative shapes, it's so useful to get the right shapes. Overall I'm happy, more try and training needed but I think I'm on a good path.

ahhhhh, this is pretty bad, I feel that the method of triangulation is really helping but it hard to get the proportion of the big shapes. here I saw at the end that the face was way to thin. Some try to draw my shoe with right proportions (didn't succeed).

My first attempt . I had a lot of fun with this one !

Cillian murphy, trying to use shoulder and didn’t really measure any proportion but drawing a center line that you can see. I really hope I can get better at eyeballing because measuring proportions seems so boring lol 🙈, like I would only wanna do that if it was for a very long project. My dream would be to eye ball my characters facial proportions and body proportions properly.

Here’s my result after just eyeballing the proportions. It’s not perfect, but I’m happy with how it turned out. Any feedback is welcome :)

I prefer eyeballing because it feels easier to capture the right expression of the face. Interestingly, the same mistakes appear both when measuring and eyeballing. My faces are simply too narrow!

This is my attempt at an Andrew Loomis baby head. It was my 4th attempt. The first three looked warped or like an adult face. My problem is that I have trouble creating the face when I draw the shape of the head first. It is very confining for me and I have to work from the inside out and create the facial features first and then the shape of the head after that. I need to work on that. The facial features are hard too! I look forward to taking a figure drawing class after this :)

I think this is the hardest time I've had while drawing. I tried attempt #1 before watching the video, and attempt #2 while following along with the demo. It was really helpful seeing Stan's thought process where I had the most trouble, especially with starting with a large envelope shape for the head, which really helped get the head shape right on the second attempt. It's also amazing to see that he can process both line weight and shape simplification at the same time so naturally; I found myself struggling to handle even one at a time. I don't think I can trust my guts so much yet, I'll have to return to this assignment many, many times.

Challenged myself with a more difficult angle. Mouth and nose too low again! Will keep that in mind going forward. Also, eye correlation angle incorrect which is not good. But overall head shape ok. Neck too small