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This is an attempt to observe proportions only using my eyes (which is how I get used to do). I find I tend to draw things wider when eyeballing. It's good to do this practice after last assignment. I feel I can
get a more efficient and accurate proportion measurement by adjusting the ratio using both methods. Thank you Stan!
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As you develop your eyes to judge proportions, you won't need to measure as much. In this bonus measuring demo, I’m going to rely a little less on the measuring and more on just trusting my eyeballs.
Posting for experimentation. Executed prior to watching the video. Now to watch and redo for comparison…
Second attempt. Not sure if the experiment yielded anything of value. Took longer. Lost track of the time given the dog and daughter interrupting. Hopefully an improvement. Certainly felt harder though.
Thought I’d do an actor that I’m friends with. Then wanted to use color after doing the sketch with pencil to express his warmth, humor and humanity (much more relaxed than his butler character :))
It’s been a while since I picked up my sketchbook. I followed along. A bit messy, but I’m becoming more courageous in easing up on my analytical brain and trusting my eye more.
Good effort. It is very sketchy, I’d say work on your line quality. This exercise I struggle with bc I want to draw methodically and also loosely like you have here
I'm trying to get comfortable with these to be faster at it. But I can tell it's off. Also it seems pretty empty in here, the course says find a community but feels like I'm talking in an empty room
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
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!
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.
