Well, at-least Sean Connery is not alive to see this insult! Now that I "see" where some of my problems were, I'm going to try a series of all the 007's- despite that I feel it's much more frustrating to draw someone famous (or a family member) than a stranger because you're trying to capture their iconic essence. I tried multiple times to follow Stan's Photoshop overlay instructions. I found if I played it back at 0.5 speed, I could follow along. But literally I spent more time trying to get it the "recipe" to work and then trying to use "adjustments" (and I use Photoshop a lot!) than I did drawing this. Eventually I gave up, and just had the photo on one layer and reduced its opacity, and then had my drawing on top in a different layer.

I have no procreate. Sooooooo

I dont know how I should do the measurement on the ipad?

Second try, felt a lot better about this one. Overlaying the lay in over the reference pointed out where things were wrong so I used that to correct things before putting down the final lines.

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.