Aligned the eyes for the overlay. Seems like everything else got shifted right and upwards especially the ear! Overall pretty pleased, especially in comparison to my value study portraits from the start of this course... lol. The measurement advice has been super helpful. Edit: For any other students using Krita, I followed the path of Filter > Adjust > Levels to darken my sketch, then Filter > Colors > Color to Alpha to remove the background, then Filter > Adjust > Slope, Offset, Power to change the color to something more visible than black. Probably there exists an easier way but I struggled a bit before finding that combo so figured it might help someone else

Hard stuff! I think I overanalyzed some areas of the drawing, but it was fun overall!

My submission I found this really difficult as I’m no where near as good as I need to be to draw from observation and it was a bit frustrating once I got to the details of the eyes and nose

I tried both measuring and eyeballing methods - and with both it was quite a challenge and I did not catch all the relations perfectly. But I'm glad with the outcome. The eyeballing method was easier for me for some reason though (and also took less time). What I see in a side to side comparison is that it seems like in both cases I tend to put eyes lower than they should be. Any critique would be welcomed, thank you!

Definitely experiencing frustration haha I appreciate feedbacks!

I tried to check accuracy with photoshop, the body was completely off, the face turned out decent. I should definitely practice more. It was fun though :)

i was mostly eyeballing the first attempt and try to replicate the larger simpler shapes of the model and in the second attempt I was mainly concerned with capturing accurate distances and angles of the features

Hello, I'm back after a long winter. Here is my first attempt at proportion. It was hard indeed! In the picture, the red overlay is the first sketch, and the white overlay is the second. On paper, first is graphite, second is blue and the red are the final adjustments. I think the hardest for me was to place the eyes, even though I seemed to get them mostly right. The nose was quite off hehehe

Here's my first attempt on the Musketeer. I did have problems drawing the eyes and the nose. I also used one of the drawings from the critique video as a reference. I'm think i still i need practice on proportions.

Here's attempt number 3 on this one. It was the placement of the eyes at that angle that did me in.

I did this twice and man am I glad to do this type of exercise. definitely forced me to be out side of my comfort zone. Also I felt like I was being more positive to my self when I was self-critiquing. The self critique that I originally did is when I make a portraits I just kept on thinking negative thoughts because honestly I didn't know how to teach my self to get better, but now I know! I'm just getting better, and faster ate drawing because of this new skill. Thank you guys so much!

Here is my assignment, the first one if my attempt at doing it on my own then second red one is using the phot adjustment method.

I sort of got going on the drawing and forgot what the assignment was. Here is an outline drawing with some small amount of detail. No rendering. Whoops, the guy is looking the wrong way...

Is this "good enough" at this point? Or should I have another crack

Hi everyone! I'm currently working through Stan's lesson on measuring proportions, and I'm really struggling with the actual process of applying the measurements to my drawing. 😭 I spent HOURS on this assignment, and I'm really just running in circles. I understand the concept of using a measurement unit. For example, in the demonstration, Stan uses the height of the hat as 1 unit, then compares other distances to it (e.g. the face is 2 units high, or the distance from the leftmost point of the hat to the inner corner of the eye is 1 unit). I understand what he's doing and why these comparisons are useful. However, I'm struggling with how to actually go from the reference → measurements → my canvas. A few things I'm confused about: 1. How do you determine where to place the first anchor point on your canvas? For example, if the leftmost point of the hat is used as an anchor for other measurements, how do I know where to initially place that point? Am I just roughly estimating it? 2. I'm finding that some measurements result in things like 2⅓ units or ¾ units, which makes me feel like I'm constantly trying to calculate fractions. Is that normal, or am I approaching the measuring process incorrectly? 3. I'm also finding myself putting a LOT of measurement lines and dots on the reference, to the point where I'm confusing myself and can barely see the original reference anymore. I'm worried I'm over-measuring, but I'm also scared that if I don't measure everything, I'm not actually learning and applying the method correctly. I think my biggest confusion is that I understand what a unit is and how to use it once I have it, but I'm struggling with the process of finding the right measurements/anchors and knowing which things I actually need to measure. I'm a complete beginner, so maybe I'm overthinking this, but I've spent almost the entire day on this assignment and not getting anywhere. I feel like at this point, I can't even pinpoint where I went wrong. Would really appreciate any advice on how you approach this exercise, especially the step-by-step workflow from looking at the reference → establishing measurements → placing the initial shapes/landmarks → actually starting the drawing. For context, I'm drawing digitally on Procreate. Thank you!!

This was humbling 😂 I took a little over an hour for layout and then got a little lost in the sauce with my measurements. To be fair, I didn’t have a printer to print the image out so I was looking at my iPad the whole time. I’m definitely working from a physical copy in the future! But I made an overlay and found that my width is off, and his mouth sits lower on his face than in the reference. There were a lot more inaccuracies I was able to find but those two stuck out the most. Overall I learned a lot and I’m excited to try another portrait from a photo reference!

this project was very humbling. I definitely see a lot of room for improvement.

I have split feelings about it but I will say that this is a step up for sure.

looks a little bit awkard but better than expected