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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.
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Michał Staniszewski
3d
A lot of mistakes. Nose should be more to the left. Lips are to big and in wrong position. Ear should be higher and a little bigger. Neck look weird.
Maria Bygrove
2d
This is a difficult angle, don't be too hard on yourself. You did a good job simplifying the shapes. I think if you dared to foreshorten her nose a little bit more, the tilt of her head would be more obvious. Why not give it another try?

Shreyans
5d
Half part into it and I realised, I messed up the proportions (the nose is looking too small for the face). But was too lazy to correct it. Messing up in measurements is really easy in this.
Any advice if you wanna give, would be helpful.

@ethel
9d
I tried again with an image I liked better - it was fun even with the misjudgements revealed with the overlay. Centred the overlay on the eyes because otherwise it looks like they are too far apart & they aren’t! Learning ...
@ramdom
11d

@ethel
9d
Can’t see this - the lines are too light

@ethel
12d
OK! Not the best but also not the worst! I skipped the curls because they are above my pay grade.
I don’t have the resources for the overlay - yet

@ethel
12d
I skipped the curls because they are above my pay grade, and the flowers because too be honest, my patience was reaching an end. But with the overlay I can see that the eyes are way too high, their angle too steep, and I misjudged the location of the neck, but overall not the worst job for a beginner. I’m encouraged.

Richard W
15d
I worked on the portrait reference. Still a lot of improvements to be done. Therefore, lot of practice seems a basic requirement! Pretty happy with mouth, nose and eyes while overall proportions are off
Blex
16d
ok re did it with this face, was not perfect but went much better, gonna move onto the next assignment tomorrow.

@harrow
16d
I don't have the tools to do an overlay but I think I've done okay. I got a bit frustrated towards the end so I ended up eyeballing more than I probably should have.
My biggest frustration was how to block in the nose.

Richard W
15d
At a first glance, I would say that the forehead is too high. But not totaly sure
Blex
17d
tried with a new portrait, and this broke me, i just cant maintain the distance with only a pen, tried to simplify as much as i could in hopes it would help but no, i'm giving up for now. gonna try to attempt the photo he used in this video and see if i can do any better, but for now i just feel defeated

@harrow
16d
I find it much easier to measure with something thinner like a knitting needle. I'm currently using the skewer from some gas station chicken teriyaki.
Merry Lee Sharin
20d
Basic Drawing- Demo- Measuring Proportions
007 Drawing #2: Roger Moore. Improving some areas, not so much in others. Got the nose and mouth proportions spot-on, but the eyes, while proportional, were too high compared to nose/mouth. Still having issues with widths of face. Have a slightly easier time making comparative measurements though.
Moving on to Dynamic Shapes, then will try Timothy Dalton.
Rafael Rangel
23d
This exercise was pretty tough!
Merry Lee Sharin
20d
Have you done any of the overlay techniques? The eyes on your male figure drawing were very expressive!
Merry Lee Sharin
28d
Well, at-least Sean Connery is not alive to see this insult! Now that I "see" where some of my problems were, I'm going to try a series of all the 007's- despite that I feel it's much more frustrating to draw someone famous (or a family member) than a stranger because you're trying to capture their iconic essence.
I tried multiple times to follow Stan's Photoshop overlay instructions. I found if I played it back at 0.5 speed, I could follow along. But literally I spent more time trying to get it the "recipe" to work and then trying to use "adjustments" (and I use Photoshop a lot!) than I did drawing this. Eventually I gave up, and just had the photo on one layer and reduced its opacity, and then had my drawing on top in a different layer.
Wesley
29d
I have no procreate. Sooooooo
Lamp Hogan
24d
ibis is sorta similar and has a free version :D I think u can do smth similar there >:D
Wesley
29d
I will still do it but still I can not check
Wesley
29d
I will still do it but still I can not check
Christian Peitler
29d
I dont know how I should do the measurement on the ipad?
Neo Diamond
30d
Second try, felt a lot better about this one. Overlaying the lay in over the reference pointed out where things were wrong so I used that to correct things before putting down the final lines.
Thomas Nolan II
1mo
I do not have the overlay to compare proportions so I may need to acquire that for next time. Otherwise, it registers close enough to me based on the many comparative measurements made. Also, my picture capture quality is sub-par, will have to square it up better.

@labuge
1mo
I was happy… and then i realize now much i messed up 😭😭
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1mo
You over exaggerated the head tilting back. If it’s going to be off, it’s better to lean in this direction.
Just keep practicing. You will get it.

@schmal
1mo
i kinda always get the measurement of the jaw wrong. With that, it takes thhe mouth and nose off as well. How do i improve that. (double checking measurements kills me sm:((((()
Auren Loper
1mo
I have a question, hopefully someone can help me here. I'm taking the course and using a digital medium, I can directly draw a measurement, copy/paste that measurement and move it around to measure a reference. Is that encouraged, or should we try to use the stylus (laying the stylus on the pen display to measure), and eyeballing?
I'm not entirely sure if we're meant to do it as Stan did it in the original project video or not.
Dylan Jagiello
1mo
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