Here is my attempt at the musketeer, I think I got way to distracted by details instead of focusing just on shapes, probably will have to practice this quite a bit.

Did another attempt. This time I combined measuring with eyeballing. This time it was faster to get things done, and it felt easier to get it done. I did get some things right, and some things wrong, so I guess I just need more mileage and train my eyes more to get better.

An enlightening experience. A lot of these measurements felt very unnatural when initially measured, but turned out right for the overall harmony (not counting the eyes though lol).

This was probably my last favorite assignment so far. I spent hours measuring and still got it wrong (everything is shifted to the left). I think I will try again, but this time with more eyeballing instead of measuring. Doing too much measuring made the process feel rigid and stiff.

Very frustrating assignment even tough it didnt come out that bad. Maybe im "mad" that my drawing isnt perfect. Also doesn't help that measuring takes a lot of time. I'd also love some tips for all the small bumps and tiny details in the face! I felt very overwhelmed when I had to draw the forehead folds or the tiny bumps and curves in the nose.

My sketch process.

Quick sketch, about 30 min. I struggle with accidentally making my drawings too small so maybe I will do another version much bigger so I can work on the facial features more accurately!

I spent a couple days, over 5 hours today drawing the face and I feel completely defeated. I put all this effort into this and I was so off I had moments of my internal monologue go, “ wow it might be pretty accurate” only to find out I was so wrong and I feel like I wasted my time and I’m posting this right after I just finished my piece just 10 minutes ago checking my accuracy. Yea sure it looks like a face woo hoo I’m grateful truly that my eyes are synced somewhat but overall I feel like a elementary kid watching all the big 5th graders and I feel like a little baby compared to the fidelity that this project entailed. This project is the big 5th grader and I’m a puny little guy withered in my shell thinking I actually did well. I’m gonna go eat take a break and be heart broken. I have no other choice but to draw it is the lifeline to my sanity and voice of my soul. I find myself in drawing but this experience left a grim cloud over me. I love y’all tank you proko for this opportunity I’m just being raw and talking to myself cause ultimately I’m not hurting anyone or saying anything bad. I’m alone in this world for life I’m not having kids and the only meaning I find is in being in awe and wonder over what is this human experience and the raw beauty of nature itself being outside. The act of breathing, this body will lie decrepit one day as you see me but my soul will have flown away like a butterfly that was born from the dream of a caterpillar. Our time is temporary and I need to get good at drawing so my subconscious have an effortless time showing itself through drawing bridging the invisible landscape I call my mind. I’m so sorry for even posting this is a testament to myself and showing up. I know it doesn’t mean anything about my worth but I truly feel defeated. Now off to automatic draw to let out these tormented feelings from being alive in a world not built for me to thrive but survive like a rat in the sewers when my soul is immaculate in essence, this place has tried to break my purity and drain my spark. Yet I still wake everyday to try and live for myself the one love I know. Drawing is my best friend and I just need to take a metaphorical walk. I love y’all keep drawing don’t give up. It’s more mental for me than anything when my hand is not synced with my eyes %100.

I had an easier time on these than the musketeer, maybe from practice. Each took about one to one and a half hours. I’ve noticed listening to white noise helps me focus. (By the way these ladies are from Doctor Who if anyone is interested)

Like everyone has already said, this assignment was very difficult. I rarely attempt to draw anyone's face because of how difficult I find it. I am definitely interested in taking some sort of course on portrait drawing at some point. For whatever reason noses are a huge challenge for me. I must have redone his nose 10 times. Here's where I'm at for right now; I added way too much detail. Oh well. I don't have Photoshop so I couldn't do an overlay, but I'm really curious how far off my proportions are.

I think mine looks ok but it was really off in some places (esp. his right cheekbone/side of face) after doing the overlay! I will have to practice more on this one. (By the way I taped two pages together haha)

Looking for feedback on this. Here's another try. I overlayed in and saw that the ear wasn't stretched out enough, must have been a measurement error.

I found this exercise to be demoralizing. I get that it's probably more about the proportions, but I do not have the foggiest idea on how to make a face a face, an eye an eye, a nose look like a nose etc. I am very much a beginner and trying to draw a portrait without any sort of training did not go well...

i really hate drawing portraits because i get obsessive with measuring, spent like an hour one just measuring the first assignment and then rushed through it out of frustration, eyeballed the other two demos while watching. then finally decided to do it proper and did some plumb lines and measuring in photoshop, eyeballed it and then compared while drawing. was really fun by the end and happy i didn't just skip through.

So... its time... The accurate measurements. My bane of existence. Had to force myself to do it. Been semi avoiding this for decades. Always sucked at it. Result: I hate it. I hate so much that everything must be measured. everything has to be exactly perfectly correct. Parts of are technically right, like left side of the face. or if you move the overlaid reference to check, the right side is correct. But together? Nah it all wrong. Nose is way too long, among other things that are wrong size. I got lost in the sauce pretty fairly early on. Didn´t help having Stan´s measurements from the video in front of me. I am just lost and don´t know how to practice this to get better. I am fine with eye balling and getting the idea of a subject across but moment it has to be exactly precise I feel like facing the executioner. In the past I tried all kinds of measuring ways, like grid etc. Nothing worked. Just what the hell am I doing wrong?

This one was scary... Finally gave it a go. This was ~50 minutes. After playing with the overlay in an image editor, it seems that I got _some_ proportions right, but in pieces. So I can make one part align, but that throws off the others. Gonna have to keep practicing this...

Second try. Am I doing this wrong?

Hoping for feedback. Attempt 1

Phew this was tough! I thought I did a pretty good job (on my admittedly second attempt, first was shit), but making an overlay afterwards showed me I was actually really off. Not sure what specifically I should do better except practice. If I had to guess though I would say misjudging angles caused proportions to deviate and ended up skewing the whole image to the left. this started from the forehead on the top left. On to the next one! BTW for you iOS users out there: a quick, simple, and free app is called Overlay.