As you develop your eyes to judge proportions, you won't need to measure as much. In this bonus measuring demo, I’m going to rely a little less on the measuring and more on just trusting my eyeballs.
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Dylan Jagiello
3d
I know proko draws his faces with sttaight lines but I found it was much easier for me to use curves. Still need lots of practice.
Philippe
10d
Started off strong with the rough sketch, then it seemed like something's off... And completely blew it coloring in the hair. I guess there's a reason Proko says not to shade yet...
Philippe
10d
Did another one. Really struggling to get a likeness. I feel like the eyes and the mouth are the most important for that, and incidentally they are the things I struggle with most.
samuel burgos celedon
18d
Dylan Jagiello
4d
This is great!

Luis Ángel Ruiz de Gopegui Rando
29d
Well, there goes my drawing, I found it very constructive to follow the video step by step and imitate it. I think I have learned a lot from the quality of the strokes. It has been a great challenge for me to execute the drawing!
J M
2mo
just eyeballing was "easier" just because putting down shapes was faster. Still off - I think it's fine tho? I can't expect to be as good as this I want to be given that I just started doing this type of drawing. I will probably fill this sketch book with this type of portrait drawings since this project was fun.
Aaron Smith
2mo
This was fun, even though it turned out S#*t! lol. Eyes and nose not too bad. The rest is way off!
Tommy Pinedo
2mo
Did another practice. Added a bit of detail on the hair for some fun. :)

Rodolphe MIGON
2mo
Here is my attempt, that's the one I struggle the most with. I feel like it's harder for me right now to eyeball proportions.
Tommy Pinedo
2mo
Nice attempt. Yeah eyeballing proportions is tough. It takes me about 2 hours or so to complete something I am feeling alright with. I think its just putting the miles in and see what works for you when you lay it out, and measure proportions. Happy drawing! :)
Tommy Pinedo
2mo
Here is my attempt for this portrait of Cillian Murphy. This was like a Master Study to me because I was studying how Stan does his line weight like around the eyes, nose and lips. This drawing took me a bit over 2 hours and I only looked at his demo when I felt stuck on lineweight only. I did the portrait by eyeballing it and not looking at Stan demo. I compared it with the actual photo and I was close but so far I am happy about it. I will continue to do more!
@deadsm
2mo
I don't feel great about this but I find that it is really hard to eyeball proportion without looking at shadows. This breaks the idea that we should be looking out for better shapes like in the last few lessons and isn't great for drawing the same subject later.
Tommy Pinedo
2mo
This was very helpful thank you so much for this. Also, where can I get a Proko sketchbook that Stan uses? :D
J. Menriv
3mo
Eyeballing proportions—jaw length and width were slightly off at the lay-in stage. Used wider strokes for soft edges and left some areas of the features without edges.
Xana Mendonca
3mo
It took me more than 2 hours to do this and I had to correct the proportions so many times :/ and it still is off on the right side of the face.
@hobodios
4d
this is really good

Ben Whitfield
3mo
My attempt at drawing this portrait while watching Stan draw his. Proportions were a little off on length and width but not to bad. My facial features definitely need to be practiced and improved. Overall happy with my version.
Andrea Anaya
4mo
This is my attempt before watching the video. I seem to have done alright with the features but the head shape and ear placement and neck placement is incorrect. I have noticed that I have a tendency to make my heads too small! Going to watch the video and try again.
Andrea Anaya
4mo
This is my second attempt after watching the video. So now the head is too wide but at least the height is correct. Also my lip placement is too low and the collar is as well. I need to spend more time measuring the head placement before adding in the features.
Andrei Sorokin
4mo
The jaw is too big, but overall good enough I think.

Agnieszka
4mo

@goobish
5mo
eyeballed portrait I will most likely keep to measuring a bit more till my eye has developed

@hjalmarhoeg
5mo
There. Doesn't look too much like Cillian Murphy, but at least it looks like a human. Sort of..
ANX804U
5mo
mm... could do a lot better, but I guess today my mood was not in right place. but nice one..... I take what's mine and take some more....
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