How to Draw a Nose – Real-Time Demo
How to Draw a Nose – Real-Time Demo
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How to Draw a Nose – Real-Time Demo

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How to Draw a Nose – Real-Time Demo

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Stan Prokopenko
The real-time demo from the step-by-step lesson on how to draw a nose.
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mogumogu
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Samuel Sanjaya
attempting myself and drawing along
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Alain Rivest
This is the nose I made while watching the demo. I think it doesn't look enough like the reference. But I'm still happy with my first "real" nose!
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Arthur Gellet
So thats my work of today Juste lemme know if you see mistakes I would apreciate as long as it is constructive Thx And if you know where Incould find référence for n'ose eyes and all this stuff I would taie it too
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Ernesto Palma
I see great effort, Arthur! How often do you practice? It's good to get in the habit of daily drawing to improve on the hardest things like line control and proportional accuracy with eye measuring. Also, try to take your pictures with clear even lighting so we can appreciate them better. Sunlight works great! Best of luck.
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Cameron Dunbar-Yamaguchi
I suppose this is my first time ever posting here. I am studying the nose in Proko's "Portrait Drawing Fundamentals" course. The upper left and bottom right were done following along with him, and getting a feel for figuring out my landmarks. The bottom-middle was the same, but I then kept going to create an illustration on a whim, just to see what my instincts would show me. Finally, I did an independent nose study (bottom -left), and I was very pleased with the outcome. One thing I like to do is "reclaim" territory on my pages, so as to not waste paper, and just start filling in as much empty space as I can.
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lifeflame
I following along the video and the results were decent. And then I tried another reference in colour and then found it super difficult to keep the relative values in shading. Also, I discovered that old people are great for references, side note, now I feel I have an idea for the frontal view but just by itself unsure how to tackle different angles… so much to learn and practice!
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ljiljana
Nose.
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Bishop Limbu
I dont know where i am going. Critics wanted.
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hidethosehands
I think what would help you is having more of a contrast between the lights and the darks. Your shadows seem more like halftones to me. I would push the darks more, and even darken up the nostrils a little more. I would also focus more on the structure of the nose and try to get the shapes down a little more accurately. You're doing good, just keep practicing mindfully and deliberately and you'll see improvement! Hope this helps ;)
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Shelvs Fleurima
Plane of the nose study for head model app
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Shelvs Fleurima
Nose study
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Kiki K.
Noses!!! These are hard, but fun. The top one is Proko’s lesson, and the other two are from reference pics online . Thank you for any feedback.
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John Harper
It might be helpful to get the general shape and proportions down before going into the shading. For example, the last image of the woman compared to your second drawing could use some adjustments. Her glabella is much more petite than you have drawn. In addition, the length of her nasal dorsum is longer than you have drawn. Overall, this is a very good attempt. Great job.
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Jesper Axelsson
Hi @Cristina Kaiden, nice studies! And especially good job with the nostril area in the bottom drawing; it feels very threedimensional I'll do my best to help you further: I would do some studies were you break the nose up into planes, as shown in the lesson video https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/how-to-draw-a-nose-anatomy-and-structure/discussions first the major planes then the smaller ones. When you're comfortable with the planes, shading the nose becomes easier. In your second study, the area of the ball of the nose and the nostrils, feels a little flat. You've done a good job in showing depth with overlaps, but the shading is hard to read. If you start by identfying the planes, getting a clear shading becomes a lot easier: Step 1 Identify the planes Step 2 Identify the direction of light Step 3 Planes facing away from the light are darker. Planes facing the same direction receives the same value. Step 4 Now you can start softening things and adding dark accents, because you're doing it on a solid foundation I hope this was helpful :) Keep up the good work!
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Warren Bonett
Some nose jobs this week. So many different shapes! Not sure if I’m going about improving in the right way. I watch the video. Draw along with it. Then try to apply this to several drawings with my photo references. Then I go back to the video and try again. I’ll keep going with this approach till the end, and then try a dozen or so portraits before going through various aspects of the course again.
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Marco Sordi
2021/02/23. Hi everyone. Here's my today assignment for this section. Nose still remain very difficult to shading... let's keep practicing. Goodnight.
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Erin Quick-Laughlin
Feedback requested.
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