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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.
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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.
Did these two post demo. Considering hoe @Stan Prokopenko was taking the measurements. Looks better than the one I submitted in the last lesson. Was able to make more use of the full page this time. But lots of work to do.
Please critique and suggest what I should focus on next and how to practice more.
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Yes! There is a big improvement between these and your recent post. Congrats! My suggestion is to try to keep your lines a bit lighter while you're working, and then darken them at the very end when you're confident they're in the correct placement. It's a great habit to have for drawing in general, but especially while you're learning proportions and may need to adjust your lines multiple times. It's much easier to make those adjustments when your lines are light and easy to fade into the background/lightly erase than when your lines are dark and committed to the page. It's a bit of a tedious process, measuring & making adjustments & measuring & making adjustments etc., but you're definitely improving, so keep going!
I had a hard time finding any measurement that I could repeatedly use across the model's face except for the length of her face from hairline to chin was the same as the width of her face at the widest point. So I mostly eyeballed the rest and took photos at each stage to see where I went wrong, and that was very helpful. I think I'll do a few of these to really get it down.
I tried a different photo for this one. Something that for a start had easier to spot proportions. It went better than the first attempt not a lot better. Faces are really hard and I have never studied them to be honest. I will try one more and then move on.
I feel the general body proportions are ok but then in the details I got: 1. Eyes too large, and 2. The mouth too small. Will keep on working on it.
I don't know why I always have problems with the widths of faces. I either can't find a good place to measure from (I usually choose the middle of the bottom of the nose and then compare the measurement from there to each direction to something vertical on the face), or it's like my brain can't believe the face is ACTUALLY that wide. The subsequent result is once again a too-low ear and too-thin frame on the right side.
It will be very interesting to see if my eyeballing produces better results.
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.
