This was tough. I sort of feel like I eyeballed the proportions correctly, but my values are awful lol I’m hoping the later sections will help with that! Either way, I’m enjoying learning :)

Practiced another one. Advice/critiques appreciated.

Added some color to emphasize the character for fun. Any suggestions/critiques appreciated.

Eyeball with a few sighting measurements

I think I might need some help with this one. On my first try, I printed the photo smaller than I wanted to draw it, and let’s just say it didn’t turn out Cillian Murphy 😅 Then I printed the picture bigger and drew from that, and it looked way better. But I guess we can’t always have our subjects at the exact size we want to draw them. What can I do to train my eye to transfer measurements, whether smaller or bigger, onto the paper while keeping the proportions accurate?

Several portrait proportion studies done mostly by eye, with minimal measuring — three portraits of my friends and two attempts at Cillian, all with overlays.

These practice pieces are digital paintings — I hardly used any pencil measurements and mostly trusted my eyes. I added some tilted portraits and small thumbnail portraits to train my eyeballing.

A collection of traditional pencil drawings where I used the pencil for measuring, plus a comparison between my first and second drawings.

My eyeballing attempt

I made an attempt at spiderman here. 😅 After I drew him I decided to graphite the background and erase out the clouds. So spiderman is white, I'm trying to bring him out, I know I need more value but I'm jus making it worse so 🤣 I'm calling it. I got lost on what to do with his body because every time I attempt any details it messes everything up. I think if I was gonna keep going I'd add charcoal or maybe even switch to some multi media and get some ink going 🤷

i think i am starting to get how to use line weight .. kinda 😂

Mouth are so hard to draw 😅

Tried my best to draw from the same reference as in the video. Feel like it’s not completely accurate, but I’m happy with how it turned out.

Eyeballed and then corrected 2 times. Feels a little easier with a profile.

I definitely had fun doing this, but I also felt like I had a lot more freedom to change things without feeling "did I get this measurement right" or "did I make a mistake". Honestly, I'm gonna do more of these, proportion and measurement drawings ( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°) (edit) Here is a second drawing I did with a (full) mouth, and it also has some corrections (I did take some inspiration from Shreyans from the comments for the mouth).

I'm gradually getting better with trusting my eyes while using plum lines. I appreciate any feedbacks.

I let fear and intimidation creep in and I felt ill-prepared to do a sketch by completely eyeballing; so I checked my work as I progressed, measuring as I went; then eyeballing, correcting, etc. That effort is the first sketch. I then reviewed Stan doing the Demo- Eyeballing proportions video, and felt inspired to try even if I 'failed'; so I did the second sketch by eyeballing only. My skill with eyeballing is low but I have to start somewhere. I felt good about making the effort for that 100% eyeball. Generally those eyeball shapes are 1.25 - 1.3 times bigger, though the facial details are closer to correct proportion. I have another sketch of a man that I did with a similar combo of eyeball/correct with measure/eyeball/ correct with measure that I will now do a 100% eyeball effort. Then in future I will start with eyeball only and then do the second one with corrections as I go.