I also made an attempt at drawing Stan. I think the proportions are good but the finer details leave a lot to be desired.

I did another one that I think everyone here will recognize... :D the process felt much more intuitive this time as I had a clear goal measuring the reference, and a separate but related goal translating those scaled landmarks to the paper. I checked just as I started getting into the smaller shapes with the intent to correct the image as I imagined I would do if I planned to go through the full process of creating a portrait (1st drawing). Then I went back and corrected my larger shapes by seeing where they were off and any relative measurements as I went. The result (2nd drawing) is something that I think turned out much better! Almost well enough that I'm tempted to go back and finish this at some point... (doesn't everyone want a 12x18 drawing of Stan hanging in their house? haha) This lesson was challenging but has helped my visual library and my ability to really *see* reference better. I'll probably do at least one or two more of these as I try to move towards more of the eyeballing method.

Here are two attempts made a day apart. I think the second attempt is much stronger than the first in terms of the project goal of proportions. It still needs work though so I'll be practicing a few other faces.

I kept my lines light so apologies for the quality of this photo. I'm noticing that finding a unit and identifying relationships between facial landmarks isn't the challenge for me - it's transferring all that to the paper! Maybe I'll get some clarity after I watch the demos. Faces have also always been challenging for me. Something to work on over time.

Man I had to hit my head up against this project a few times, but once I started to get it, I thought it clicked pretty nicely. I still struggled to precisely place some big and medium shapes though and as they say in basketball, "overlaid lay-in don't lie." Small shapes are my strong suit, but tightening up that big proportion accuracy will definitely be something I need to continue to wrestle with.

I gave it 2 tries. What made this difficult to me was simplifying thr process. And I had similar struggle other people had in putting their measurements on the page.

This project was a really fun challenge, I did end up moving some things around towards the end and I had to fight the urge to go into the details but overall I'm happy with the final result, I think the face is too wide, I still need to lay it over the original to check though.

This assignment was really hard and tedious to push through, I’m not too contempt with how my drawings turned out and originally planned on doing more. I thought before I continue a better try to reflect and get some critique. My perceived biggest struggle I have currently is capturing a likeness. Based on my own observations I think I have difficulties incorporating the features ( eyes, nose, mouth etc.). Additionally id say I should probably refrain myself from using too much line weight in my drawings. In my opinion it looks like a gave Willem Dafoe botox…

The end result is actually no worse than I feared. Ended up eyeballing more than I intended, partly because I kept forgetting what my measurement markings on the paper were for. :D I also realised that getting a good measurement is one thing, transferring it to the paper is another. Maybe both come with practice.

Here is my attempt! It took me quite a long time to get everything blocked in using measurements, it was a struggle to wrap my head around

I was pleased with this pic until i layered it with the original. I seem to have gotten the eyes, mouth nose ok, related to each other. But outside of that area. things have gotten very loose. I totally fell into the trap of bad positioning. 😁

Here's my submission! I usually struggle a lot with this but I'm noticing a lot is due to laziness/sloppiness. When actually measuring things line up more accurately for me. Will continue practising

Quite happy with how it turned out, but still want to improve in seeing the big shapes instead of focussing more on the outlines.

This was more difficult than I thought. But i learned a lot. 1) I use shading to hide shotty line work. 2) I tend to want to go detail early in some random area to anchor my drawing, then all my proportions are built around that arbitrary detail. (I didn't do that here, but it was a fight) 3) many of my lines tend to be searching or lost because of lack of confidence in the shape I'm creating. 4) that tends to make me go darker than I should too early because I'll think I've found a line only to later realize it's wrong, so then I go even darker 5) shading is a bit viral... once you start in one area, you kind of have to do all areas to make it not look terrible. More notes likely in the margins as I was taking notes while I drew. Looking at some others here, I think I'll try this again trying to mimic their approach a bit. Edit: traveling, and I forgot my eraser, so that was an extra challenge

That was so hard 😖

First attempt on measuring proportions, had to scale the image by 2 because it is on an A4 paper. Overall really difficult.

This was very difficult exercise. I did it twice but I think I need to repeat it around 10 more times... all those lines look messy as well. 

Here are my 5 first attempts.

Hi Everybody, my first human drawing and attempt for this project. Mostly with eyeballing with few measures in the beginning and check during the process. So things are off ;). i first started measuring for an envelop for the face and built everything big to small. Thanks for your advices and critiques.

I was just kind a playful with the details. This assignment was hard for me for sure. I don’t normal do portraits especially realism. I didn’t wanna stay put too long since I got the basic idea of measurement. I’ve been trying to add the practice to my daily drawing and it’s been a big help. Probably not my best work but I did the lay in too many times lol. So I was like ok 👌 let’s a go!!! (I did skimp on the details of the cloth and stuff since I believe he said “complete face” so I tried to basically did that and then played here and there)