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Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
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A full-length demo for drawing a portrait from start to finish of Morgan.
I'll call this my final for this little course, though I feel my portrait journey is just beginning. Portrait of Emma Stone from this reference photo: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/451274825184337551/
Graphite in my sketchbook. I think I spent about 4 hours on it, including 45 minutes on the lay-in and I *still* had some big mistakes to fix later! (Mouth originally too small, mouth and bottom of nose both originally too low). It's closer now if not perfect, but all of the steps laid out in the course helped me get to this point.
2025/7/3. Good morning everybody. Here's a new portrait I just finished a couple a weeks ago. Thanks for any comment or advice. Have a good day.
"Emilie" (pencils on Kent paper 21 x 29.7cm).
Another attempt at a render. I feel like I was able to capture the likeness better on this one. This one was done mostly by just eyeballing proportions and feature relationships to one another. Critique is always welcome.
If you were to spend longer on it I think it could be improved by working on your edges - your line on the clavicle is very firm and dark and the light on her cheek (on the light side) should be lost moving downwards diagonally (if you look at the reference). It's different to the reference, with a different feel but I like it a lot, well done!
This course helped improve my art so much. Much appreciated! Especially glad to be able to do a portrait since they can be hard to get right.
My first attempt at a full render of a portrait drawing. I've been bouncing between this course and Michael Hampton's course trying to figure out a method that works for me. This one certainly took me quite some time, probably like 7 hours over a couple days. Any critique is always welcome.
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8mo
Beautiful portrait! I love how you concentrated the lighter values in the face. The shape of the shadows around the left is great and you've done a great job laying out your values.
This model has a very interesting face in that he doesn't follow the rule of thirds, which you picked up on. He has a longer than average face, but instead of elongating all proportions, after measuring we can see that the only proportion that is off is the length of the bottom of the nose to the chin. If you changed nothing else but shortened the distance between the browline and the bottom of the nose on your portrait, your proportions would be spot on. Keep an eye out for the thirds, it can help a lot especially when working with subjects that don't follow the rule as it will show you which areas to exaggerate.
In the first attempt I only got 30mins into the demo and got frustrated and rushed it. The second I used a different charcoal pencil which helped me lay down tone. I focused on trying to properly use charcoal as a medium but the proportions suffered. Overall I feel I improved in some aspect. I tried working on a larger scale which was challenging and made all of my weaknesses more obvious. Overall I found it a fun process and find it easier to find what I need to improve on by drawing larger.
Loved the demo! Any critique on eye placement or general proportion would be appreciated. I couldn’t tell if something was off.
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9mo
Incredible as always! I made a couple of changes to see what it would look like -- moved the left eye over a touch, and rotated the mouth downwards. Very minor adjustments and I'm not sure if they are quite necessary. Really beautiful work here, I love the texture of the hair!
This is my progress from 2024-2025 drawing my self-portrait. Much of my practice came from Proko. Thank you!
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10mo
Nice work!
Final portrait study.
I feel like hair is definitely my biggest weakness, but I gave it my best shot.
2025/1/8. Good morning everybody. Here's my second oil painting that closes my 2024 artistic production: "La Pucelle d'Orleans" (oil on canvas F6).
Thanks for any comment or critique. Have a good day!
What a great course. Have never done portraiture before this. Feeling good for first time ever doing this.
2024/9/6. Good evening everybody. Here's my latest portraiture. Pencil on Kent paper (29.7 x 42 cm). Thanks for any comment or critique. Good night.
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1yr
So smooth! Beautiful drawing
I think I have somewhat improved at drawing faces, but most importantly I see after going through this course that I need to learn more technical skills, like constructing the planes of the face and improving my approach to shading.
Wow, this looks pretty good. I love her eyes. Art needs practice the more we do the better we get. I am also struggling with this concept as well. Hopefully I'll get better with practice.
Keep up the good work
Nicely done!
You should join us in the daily drawing with timer thread to keep practicing the concepts from this course:
https://www.proko.com/community/topics/daily-drawing-with-timer-challenge
I've been doing regular practice since I finished this course eight months ago and it's made a big difference.
Some of us do zoom calls where we practice figure drawing and portrait drawing. Let me know if you're interested those and I can let you know the times we meet.
Hi everyone, my biggest struggle with portraits right now is I have the overall proportions of the head correct, but if I place a feature like an eye, nose, mouth, or cheek incorrectly by a millimeter, it ruins the likeness. My eye is trained enough to see it’s wrong, but I don’t know how to get unstuck and place the feature correctly. Any tips on how to practice here is much appreciated. Thanks! -John W.
2024/6/22. Good morning everybody. Here's my latest portrait. ("Incarnato e Panneggio_studio", Carbothello pastel pencils on Pastelmat paper, 21x29.7 cm). It's a study about fabric and skin rendering. My apologies for the low quality of the photo. Thanks for any comment or critique.
2024/6/7. Good afternoon everybody. Here's my latest work, a tribute to the greatest musical of all time and to one of my favorite heroines: "The Wicked Witch of the West" (Carbothello pastels pencils and Rembrandt pastels on Pastelmat paper). Thank you for your comments and critique.
2024/4/21. Good morning everybody. Here's my Face Muscles Study. I hope it can be helpful to you too. Thanks and have a good Sunday.
2024/4/5. Good morning everybody. This is not a portrait but since there's no section for head anatomy I hope you don't mind if I post it here. Thanks for any comment or suggestion. Have a good day.
I had to collect many sources of information on head anadomy and muscles of facial expression. I´m hoping though that in the future Stan decides to make a nice course on it. the amount of information you may want to know is SO VAST though who knows if or when it will happen.
