How to Draw Accurate Proportions

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Stan Prokopenko

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How to Draw Accurate Proportions

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Drawing Basics

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In this lesson, I’ll show you how you can train your mind to improve the accuracy in your drawings, measuring methods you can use along the way, and most importantly how you can give yourself quick feedback so you can improve faster.

Eruera Hohaia-Turuwhenua

1mo

Wow after Lines and a few Shape lessons. I have finally reached the hardest part of the skill and the most tedious and time consuming skill required. Im so happy I made it this far. But I am very fearful already this is one of the most complicated habit I need to acquire. Here it goes :)

Orlando McKillop

23d

I'm in exactly the same boat! I got to this assignment and I've put it off for the past week, purely sketching from life using all the skills learnt thus far - but the time has come for me to finally start the project...

mostafa deif

3mo

can someone please re explain the overlay part done in photoshop as stan went through the steps really quick and I just started using photoshop recently and not really good at it yet ...or if theres a link on youtube where the same thing is done but in a more easy to follow way

@bert2

3mo

Open photoshop go the the top left click on file and click on new. now choose one of the options i usually go for custom idk if thats the right one though. now drag in your original photo you used as a refrence. Now drag in the photo of your drawing. on the right side of photoshop there are now two layers on of the photo and one your drawing. Make the drawing a multiply layer. If you select your drawing layer and press ctrl+t you can resizing your drawing to match the orginal photo. But before resizing ctrl+t on your drawing then alt+left mouse click somewhere in the middle of your drawing hold alt and start resizing your drawing to match the photo. Once you find they line up correctly temporarily make your refrence photo invisible by clicking the little eye next to the layer on the right. Now add a new layer you can do this by clicking on the little plus sign symbol under your layer window on the right. Now look to the left of your photshop and select the little paint bucket its above the waterdroplet symbol around the middle. select a color you want and click on the white layer. If you only get grey select image in you top bar while this new color layer is selected and go to mode and choose rgb. Now you have a red surface to make a mask for this color layer go to the bottom row again where you used the plus symbol to create a new layer and select the little box with the dark circle in it. this created a new mask layer now make this layer color layer invisible and select your drawing layer again use ctrl+a to select all of this layer then press ctrl+c to copy this layer now make this layer invisible and make your color layer visible again alt+left mouse click the mask layer and paste in your drawing using ctrl+v now you can adjust the levels using ctrl+l on the selected mask layer. now make your refrence photo visible again.

Zach Pipher

4mo

Is there a way to do this process in gimp to check my self?

Zach Pipher

2mo

For anyone in the future who might answer this question, i figured out how to use it in GIMP. It works good just a few extra steps.

Zach Pipher

3mo

I hope i'm able to get an answer, at least when I tried to do the overlay things seemed to work differently. Maybe i'm just doing it wrong.

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Diana Mora

4mo

Comes in handy just in time while im also learning this in class.

Rose Bernatovich

4mo

It took about two hours, but I think I'm starting to get a feel for it...

J. Santos

4mo

Good stuff man! Keep at it!

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Juice

4mo

Is it anyone that know how to do what stan did in photoshop But in pro create instead?

Juice

4mo

Aha, someone teached me some days ago. And I use it every day since But good its in the new video so others also learn 👍🏼

Ash

4mo

Hey Juice! Check out the latest video "Demo - Measuring Proportions." Stan shows us how to check proportions using Procreate! :)

Zach Pipher

5mo

Will there be an assignment later on this subject, I'm practicing the fundamentals talked about in here. I was hoping there would be an assignment to help me practice it with guidance.