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.

My drawing stages

This was so hard. My attempt took about two hours. I did take short breaks. I had to write next to some of my markings what the mark was for otherwise I'd forget haha. This is a skill that I need to incorporate into my regular practice. It's mentally taxing though! Does anyone else think so too or is it just me?

I’m so confused 0_0

This is actually quite hard. I keep losing my place.

Two more portraits completed after watching the demo the first (the one that's not in black and white) I did checking multiple times in photo shop as I did it but the second I waited till the end. the first ended up being more accurate than the second but I feel I may have learnt more from the second ,but I not sure if any particular method is considered better thanks very much any advice would be appreciated.

Tried to give a try on a portrait of Cillian Murphy, i think the biggest mistake was on the neck and trapezium.