How to Practice and Check Your Measuring
How to Practice and Check Your Measuring
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Figure Drawing Fundamentals

Measuring

How to Practice and Check Your Measuring

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How to Practice and Check Your Measuring

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Measuring the Figure

Choose one of the methods I describe in the lesson above. Either digital or traditional. Practice laying in a figure drawing pose and use the measuring techniques you learned. You can use the photo provided in the downloads, or any other pose you like in my pose sets.

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hArtMann
It looks like the head measurements helped a lot with the height, should've done the same for the width.
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Samuel Sanjaya
Focusing on getting the proportion right, only on one figure. I redraw it from the scratch everytime there's a mistake. On my 6th attempt I just re-draw what needs to be fixed. I think I'm going to settle on close enough is good enough. I wonder if it's more efficient to do it like this or just erase and re-draw thing that needs to be fixed ?
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Samuel Sanjaya
Did another measuring assingment again. Any feedbacks will be greatly appreciated
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Samuel Sanjaya
at least the torso seems about right, not as off as the previous one I guess. Any critiques are welcome
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@kotka
The more I do these exercises, the more off it becomes, especially sideways! Any tips? I am trying to disregard my extremely uncomfortable digital setup since I currently have no other option. I have a very hard time relating the head to the middle line. I always start with the head, establish a vertical line and then divide it into head lengths as measured. Horizontal lines are the hardest for me to find! Maybe that's why there's such an offset mistake.
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Jesper Axelsson
Hi @kotka, these are really nice! - It might help to find and add a horizontal halfway point (and do the same with vertical if you aren't already). To practice major accuracy more efficiently you could disregard the details and do a lay-in with fewer lines, then check your result right away. Hope this helps :)
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Sandra Süsser
Somehow these measured studies get way more off than my usual ones. question: how do you go about finding the side points (farthest points left and right) better after establishing the height line with the center? This is where I still have the most trouble.
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@kotka
I feel exactly the same! When I think of measuring I always am more off.
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@tgsgames
The Angle study is really clever. Your line are super confident. I have the same issues finding measurement lines to the side, but have an easier point when I can try and focus on areas of negative space to help measure them out! Great work! Keep it up!
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Adam Wiebner
Perhaps try using multiple plumb lines that are purely vertical and horizontal in addition to the envelope method and triangulation lines you use very well shown here. Straight up down and side to side is less prone to error than eye-ing acute and obtuse angle accuracy. Hope that helps.
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@yurishka
Well it's... the definition of "off" :D
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CHARLES DEIGHAN
Hi, I used the traditional method. As you can tell mine is way off. I have a tendency to draw big and in this assignment I had to draw small which I think kind of threw me off.
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TK
2yr
Here are some of my assignments for the measuring technique. I still have a long way to go.
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Alexander Wegner
Hello! I have just finished this drawibg of Yoni 282. I'm aware that the left leg is to wide. Critiques are welcomed!
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Alexander Wegner
Hi! I did this drawing of Yoni 124. Critiques are apreciated, thank you!
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Kelly Dembowski
Just played around with some Brague drawings from Charles Brague Drawing course.
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Alexander Wegner
I have just done this figure drawing of Yoni. I would really apreciate some critique. Thank you! The image is Yoni 249.
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Serena Marenco
Hi Alexander, the head seems a bit too big.
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Bradwynn Jones
Head looks too big and is throwing off the proportions a bit. Take a measure of the length of his head as a unit of measuring. Then count how many of those heads his pose is in length from tip of hand on floor to tip of toe. I like the box form shape you made for the shoulder. Those mother forms are great to use in constructing the figure. Also you can use negative spaces to check things. For example look at the negative space between the legs. It's shape is drawn slightly different from the photo. It looks like the angle of the lower leg needs to be changed. May be why that lower leg looks a bit too small. Negative spaces save my butt all the time. They are a great way to check the drawing for errors. Good work on Yoni! I hope the critique helps
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Marco Sordi
2021/3/1~7. Hi everyone. Here's my measuring exercises for this week. Thanks and goodnight.
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Marco Sordi
2021/2/25. Hi everyone. Here's my today's assignment for this section. Thanks for any comment or advice. Have a good day.
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Margaret Langston
6th day. I didn't really use a grid but I did mark the top and bottom for placement on the paper, and I did a lot of comparison measuring with the pencil.
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Margaret Langston
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Margaret Langston
4th day. I'm getting closer, I think. At some point early on in the drawing the grid confuses me. I have to stop paying attention and look at relationships between the parts. I also think my measuring is "off."
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Erin Quick-Laughlin
I haven't used the grid much yet - would it help to use it only for your main points of distance like heights and width (without much line if any) then erase it?
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Jesper Axelsson
Hi Margaret! I struggled with this part of the course. I wanted more tools, but I also I didn´t want to be bound to mechanical measuring (It felt impractical and my shoulder started to hurt after too many measurements + my hand isn´t steady). Dorian Iten´s Accuracy guide and his 3 excercises on youtube gave me what I wanted. I did the excercises for 30 min a day for a month (not spending to much time on an image, roughly 1-2 a day, since the purpose isn´t mainly to train mechanical measureing but your eyes´intuitive sense for accuracy.) and I started to feel confident about my accuracy. To be certain I focused on developing my eyes, I tried to take most of the measurments in my mind without using a tool. To maintain my eyes´new won intution I always mark top bottom left right when I do my anatomy studies. Hope this helps! https://www.dorian-iten.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/DorianIten/videos
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Margaret Langston
Third day. Yes, I do believe I could use some feedback at this point :|
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Margaret Langston
Wow. I really did not want to post these. But I figure it will be great to compare these to the ones I post six months from now - after doing this every day - right?
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