Drawing Accurate Proportions. Tried scanning instead of taking a photo. Maybe took the detail too far? Were we supposed to show our measuring lines?

Keep on keeping on; proportions and faces are good for me to do, and so I will continue to incorporate this exercise regularly.

Lately I felt like I wasn’t improving which had been frustrating me so I decided to redraw a face I drew back in like December. I feel like I have found a sense of motivation again, very proud of myself haha. (The brownish one is the old one the blue from today)

I am not big on doing potrait drawings, but they could help with proportions so gave it my best shot. He was right in the fact that it didn't take me 20 minutes lol. Here is mine, I don't have a lot of space on my laptop so I can't get photoshop as it would take up a lot of space. So instead I put the image on my computer screen then increased the brightness and put the drawing I made on the computer screen. It is WAY off, but I will come back to this and I'm proud I at least did it. :)

Practiced some more portraits. Heavily relied on eyeballing with some measurements to check. Also missed some proportions as I myself got to know when uploading these, I don't know why I wasn't able to spot it while drawing. Btw Any critiques or advice would be highly welcomed!

Slow but steady improvement

ok have been practising a few more time on this assignment, still struggle alot but think it is getting slowly better. don't have photoshop or anything like that so have to compare with printed out images, thats why my drawing get a bit crunched.

Regarding big drawing boards: Slice a section of a styrofoam "pool noodle" or water-pipe insulator lengthwise along one side and stick the edge of the drawing board into it (then it won't jab into your thighs). I also re-purposed the acrylic from a very cheap poster frame and glued it to my drawing board because it's lightweight yet provides a flawlessly smooth surface under my paper. I agree that binder-clips are the way to go, because the hinges fold flat, you can reposition the clips wherever you like, and you can clip more to the bottom sides if it's windy etc.

Third try, have definitely improved since the first. Happy with this one.

Did another practice, I needed to lower the eyes a bit but other than that I think I got it almost right...

I did another practice of measuring proportions using a reference I found. I got the angle of the face wrong, and its true what Stan said. Our brains wants to naturally straighten the face. Ugh I felt I was doing good but I was off. Good practice though.

I did my first practice not using the reference Stan gave for this one. This was really hard for me, I tried my best to get the proportions right. Took me about little over 2 hours to finish. I tried my best to make her look pretty like in the picture.

i love feed back and this exercise was fun!

This is my additional example. After creating 4 pieces, I noticed that I always drew the brow too low and had issues with the angle of the eyes. I'll try to focus on these areas next time

This is my first time doing anything like this, so I picked the musketeer for my project. I think I made my portrait's face a little too wide, but overall I'm proud of myself.

2 more portraits the first I put the nose off which shifted the mouth down and the second placements were quite closeout I got some of the forms wrong I need to do some more practice but I feel as if I have become more competent. Any advice is appreciated thanks.

I took what I learned from the criqtue and reattempted I think I've been getting better from my pervious ones and with additional help.

Did a few more studies. Focusing on only using straight lines makes this process much easier than the "burden" of having to worry about hitting the curves just right. Excited to keep practicing this, then move on to molding these into even more accurate portraits with detailed features.

I think I'm slowly getting the hang of it, but measuring still takes up so much time. And one small mistake can just throw off the angles of large sections of the drawing. I noticed I have a tendency to "flatten" the tilts of the angles, which I shall try to mitigate in future drawings.