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Time for a portrait drawing demo! I'll show you how to approach a drawing to get accurate proportions and then check your own accuracy in Procreate.
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Andrea Anaya
18h
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?
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16h
Yes, this kind of study is very labor intensive, but important to practice so you can incorporate it intuitively in the future :) You're not alone!
Andrea Anaya
18h
I also don't have procreate but I'm going to try to put this into gimp to see how accurate my proportions are.
ra u
3d
I’m so confused 0_0
Thomas Fisher
13d
This is actually quite hard. I keep losing my place.
@goobish
18d
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.
@arthiecio
1mo
Tried to give a try on a portrait of Cillian Murphy, i think the biggest mistake was on the neck and trapezium.
Greg Low
1mo
This one took AGES (including having to scrap the whole thing after over an hour and start again). It was a very frustrating process and I ended up giving up before I could complete all of the details (e.g. the hair) because I just felt burnt out with it. It doesn’t look right to me at all, but Photoshop is not allowing me to purchase it (issue with my credit card, maybe) so I’m not able to check it right now.
I know I need to do more of these to practice - but gosh, I wish I didn’t, cause it’s not much fun haha.
ANX804U
1mo
I also painted the same photo because I wanted to understand values better and Boi that was hell of a challenge I pit more than 5 hours in this project and in between easily 10 hours of rest. I guess it's good for starting out, but I have alot to work out
@julia52
1mo
Your work looks incredible! I think you nailed it with your use of values.
ANX804U
1mo
annoying af, hope next one is better
Chauncey Holder
2mo
I followed the demo and I think I was able to get it somewhat accurate to her, but the measuring still gives me a bit more trouble.
@agata02
3mo
Hey everyone! Here's my second attempt (this time I followed all the demo-video)! It was reeeeally hard to measure everything!
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2mo
Beautiful
@agata02
3mo
First attempt: I think I rushed it too much: maybe I should take more time to take the right measures hehe.
Maurizio Leo
3mo
Super helpful to walk through this with you, Stan. Especially as you discussed the order of features when drawing (it helps to have a map!). I clearly need more practice here, but it's great to have a framework to put in the reps practicing this.
Nathan Black
3mo
Watching your process is so helpful. The talk through is really inspiring
Jack H
3mo
It's still pretty difficult to accurately choose the proper units to use, but I think I'm slowly understanding how to do it. I'm still using a bit of guesswork and estimating, but I'm getting there!
Surprisingly, I thought I measured the man pretty accurately, but when I compared it, it was quite off. I think a wrong angle somewhere just compounded into more and more mistakes, causing the eyes and nose to be of the entirely wrong angle. Oh well, time to practice more.
Timea
3mo
Guuys heelp ! :D
I don't understand how to translate measurements made on the picture, to the measurement on the drawing. In the demo I see many times he is using one measurement on the picture and when translating it to the page he uses another one,I'm a bit lost. I've been using the same measurement on both things :))
@kkingmd
3mo
i watched the demo and still missed the mark in so many places. i make such anxious lines! my inner perfectionist is yelling! i will say that a few months ago, this wouldn’t have even been recognizable as an attempt to draw the person in the photo. progress is slow but recognizable, even to my own very critical eye.
SAFFANA
3mo
I realize that to get good proportion is patience
@manuela
4mo
Super fun, had an artist block mid but got over it luckely
Jordan Andersen
4mo
This is a super hard project but I am enjoying it. This one is leaps and bounds better than my last but I still need a lot of work.
@julia52
4mo
I noticed some slight improvements from my previous post, but after measuring it, I found it was still very off. There were many mistakes with the shoulders and hair, as well as the placement of the nose and lips. Nonetheless, it’s a very good tool for self-correction.
ANX804U
4mo
nice workkkk yooooooooooo...... talking about measurement we dont need to do exact everything exactly the same or be so concise until you want to master measurements but also that step comes after learning all 5 basics for drawing, how to say this for example measurement and proportion from history or starting was used as " illusion" to show reality because it can't be one, its necessity was for the viewer to understand and realise they are looking at that thing that artist intended to show them, as long as your views understand your intent it's all good, don't feel bad for not making as exact you thought, the artist you want work like took them a lot of years. JUST DRAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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