I do not have the overlay to compare proportions so I may need to acquire that for next time. Otherwise, it registers close enough to me based on the many comparative measurements made. Also, my picture capture quality is sub-par, will have to square it up better.

I was happy… and then i realize now much i messed up 😭😭

i kinda always get the measurement of the jaw wrong. With that, it takes thhe mouth and nose off as well. How do i improve that. (double checking measurements kills me sm:((((()

I have a question, hopefully someone can help me here. I'm taking the course and using a digital medium, I can directly draw a measurement, copy/paste that measurement and move it around to measure a reference. Is that encouraged, or should we try to use the stylus (laying the stylus on the pen display to measure), and eyeballing? I'm not entirely sure if we're meant to do it as Stan did it in the original project video or not.

Measuring Proportions Exercises.

Measuring Proportions - Second photo Feel like I’m doing ok with proportions but still wrestling with line quality.

It makes me feel better to see Stan "struggling" a little. Drawing the Musketeer was so much harder than I thought. I even had to label the meassurements on the paper like "Tip of the nose" "Chin" "tearduct", etc because i kept mistaking them. I'm also not used to draw on a A3 sheet. But I really feel out of my comfort zone, I see I have a long way to go, but now I know the road!

Had to erase and measure almost everything 3 times....took me more than 2 hours but i think is in a good place now, shame for the very light pencil lines...

This was fun, really struggling with the measuring part though. I feel like I'm tilting my pencil, my arm is shaky, and my eyes hurt from having one of them closed. Tips would be appreciated. Anyway, I decided to try coloring the portrait with a watercolor pen, which was fun. Any feedback is heavily appreciated :)

As far as accuracy in proportion - I'd say there is a slight improvement from my first attempt - maybe I am just coping. Regardless - I am pretty happy how this one turned out compare to the first one from the project. I feel as this one captures more of the "feel" of the portrait. Anyhow, I shouldn't expect to get it 100% in what is literally my second attempt at this. Onwards!

My attempt following along with Stan's demo. I drew the whole thing at the wrong angle. I rotated it in CSP (I couldn't work out how to do the mask in CSP, so it's a bit dark, sorry,) and most of the drawing did line up. The nose, mouth, and shoulder were still off, though. Overall I'm pretty pleased with it as this is not the kind of thing I usually have a go at :) Much more practice needed!!

Practicing with photos from unsplash.com and checking my lay-ins in Photoshop. Slowly getting more accurate each time.

Here is my attempt for this reference; it's not perfect but I am pretty satisfied.

Here is my first attempt for this reference. What do you guys think? I really enjoyed this practice despite it being hard haha.

I am actually somewhat surprised how well it turned out to be honest. I spent probably about 2-3 hours on this with small breaks to pad it out. I snagged a few pictures as I went along because I was honestly afraid that I would mess up what I've put down. Maybe it can be interesting for someone what the process kinda looked like on my end. (Also I took a picture both with flash and without, since it's winter we can't go out in the sun, Stan!:P )

A bit off, but i think the nose and mouth got almost there.

I already see a difference because I used straight lines from the start. I don't know if it's a good habit, but I used different marks to represent the hair, as I knew the contour shouldn't be focused on detail at this stage. I like how you mentioned just plugging things in and checking them, as I think that is a good method for my process. It felt wrong drawing boxes at first, establishing a measurement to build everything else on, but I can tell that because the first measurement was good, everything else was better, too. I still feel like I am not getting the full benefits of this, however. Maybe it's because I am comfortable drawing fast, or it's just years of habit, but I cannot, for the life of me, get measurements without using the shadows as shapes to measure from. This hurts me because my layout relies on value too early to represent the figure, and I don't know if that is the right approach. I'll keep trying to do this and see if slowing down gets me a cleaner result. I know I can just do another linework layer on top, but it would be awesome to start a full drawing from a cleaner start.

My attempt at this portrait drawing following along with Stan. I was happy with the drawing but did get confused during the measuring portion and had to watch the video a few times. After overlaying my drawing over the image in Procreate I missed a little bit in the majority of areas. Not too bad but my measurements were a little off.