How to Practice and Check Your Measuring

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How to Practice and Check Your Measuring

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Stan Prokopenko

in Figure Drawing Fundamentals

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Assignments 39Lesson NotesDownloads 2

Measuring the Figure

Choose one of the methods I describe in the lesson above. Either digital or traditional. Practice laying in a figure drawing pose and use the measuring techniques you learned. You can use the photo provided in the downloads, or any other pose you like in my pose sets.

Nicole Guz

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2mo

Steps I did: 1 Layin 2 Measurement check by putting the drawing above reference image 3 Applying Corrections 4 add details Trying to study proportion and I was wondering if this is the way? Let me know if there are alternatives

Rachel Dawn Owens

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2mo

These look great! Here’s another way you can double check your proportions. Especially if there’s any photo distortion in the reference. Put down the reference and step back from your drawing for a moment to notice how the whole figure fits together. This will help you as you move along in your drawing journey. Keep it up! Thanks for sharing!

Billy Morris

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7mo

Some figure drawings with an emphasis on measuring. There in order from oldest to newest. I gave myself no time limit after I finished one I would check to see if it measures up, then draw it again right after and check if i got any more accurate. I feel that I have relatively the same margin of error overall. Any feedback would be much apreciated

hArtMann

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1yr

It looks like the head measurements helped a lot with the height, should've done the same for the width.

Samuel Sanjaya

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1yr

Focusing on getting the proportion right, only on one figure. I redraw it from the scratch everytime there's a mistake. On my 6th attempt I just re-draw what needs to be fixed. I think I'm going to settle on close enough is good enough. I wonder if it's more efficient to do it like this or just erase and re-draw thing that needs to be fixed ?

Samuel Sanjaya

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1yr

Did another measuring assingment again. Any feedbacks will be greatly appreciated

Samuel Sanjaya

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1yr

at least the torso seems about right, not as off as the previous one I guess. Any critiques are welcome

@kotka

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2yr

The more I do these exercises, the more off it becomes, especially sideways! Any tips? I am trying to disregard my extremely uncomfortable digital setup since I currently have no other option. I have a very hard time relating the head to the middle line. I always start with the head, establish a vertical line and then divide it into head lengths as measured. Horizontal lines are the hardest for me to find! Maybe that's why there's such an offset mistake.

Jesper Axelsson

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1yr

Hi @kotka, these are really nice! - It might help to find and add a horizontal halfway point (and do the same with vertical if you aren't already). To practice major accuracy more efficiently you could disregard the details and do a lay-in with fewer lines, then check your result right away. Hope this helps :)

Sandra Süsser

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3yr

Somehow these measured studies get way more off than my usual ones. question: how do you go about finding the side points (farthest points left and right) better after establishing the height line with the center? This is where I still have the most trouble.

@kotka

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2yr

I feel exactly the same! When I think of measuring I always am more off.

@tgsgames

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2yr

The Angle study is really clever. Your line are super confident. I have the same issues finding measurement lines to the side, but have an easier point when I can try and focus on areas of negative space to help measure them out! Great work! Keep it up!

Adam Wiebner

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3yr

Perhaps try using multiple plumb lines that are purely vertical and horizontal in addition to the envelope method and triangulation lines you use very well shown here. Straight up down and side to side is less prone to error than eye-ing acute and obtuse angle accuracy. Hope that helps.

@yurishka

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3yr

Well it's... the definition of "off" :D

CHARLES DEIGHAN

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3yr

Hi, I used the traditional method. As you can tell mine is way off. I have a tendency to draw big and in this assignment I had to draw small which I think kind of threw me off.

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3yr

Here are some of my assignments for the measuring technique. I still have a long way to go.

Alexander Wegner

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3yr

Hello! I have just finished this drawibg of Yoni 282. I'm aware that the left leg is to wide. Critiques are welcomed!

Alexander Wegner

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3yr

Hi! I did this drawing of Yoni 124. Critiques are apreciated, thank you!

Kelly Dembowski

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3yr

Just played around with some Brague drawings from Charles Brague Drawing course.

Alexander Wegner

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3yr

I have just done this figure drawing of Yoni. I would really apreciate some critique. Thank you! The image is Yoni 249.

Serena Marenco

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3yr

Hi Alexander, the head seems a bit too big.

Bradwynn Jones

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3yr

Head looks too big and is throwing off the proportions a bit. Take a measure of the length of his head as a unit of measuring. Then count how many of those heads his pose is in length from tip of hand on floor to tip of toe. I like the box form shape you made for the shoulder. Those mother forms are great to use in constructing the figure. Also you can use negative spaces to check things. For example look at the negative space between the legs. It's shape is drawn slightly different from the photo. It looks like the angle of the lower leg needs to be changed. May be why that lower leg looks a bit too small. Negative spaces save my butt all the time. They are a great way to check the drawing for errors. Good work on Yoni! I hope the critique helps

Marco Sordi

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4yr

2021/3/1~7. Hi everyone. Here's my measuring exercises for this week. Thanks and goodnight.

Marco Sordi

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4yr

2021/2/25. Hi everyone. Here's my today's assignment for this section. Thanks for any comment or advice. Have a good day.

Margaret Langston

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4yr

6th day. I didn't really use a grid but I did mark the top and bottom for placement on the paper, and I did a lot of comparison measuring with the pencil.

Margaret Langston

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4yr

5th day

Margaret Langston

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4yr

4th day. I'm getting closer, I think. At some point early on in the drawing the grid confuses me. I have to stop paying attention and look at relationships between the parts. I also think my measuring is "off."

Erin Quick-Laughlin

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4yr

I haven't used the grid much yet - would it help to use it only for your main points of distance like heights and width (without much line if any) then erase it?

Jesper Axelsson

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4yr

Hi Margaret! I struggled with this part of the course. I wanted more tools, but I also I didn´t want to be bound to mechanical measuring (It felt impractical and my shoulder started to hurt after too many measurements + my hand isn´t steady). Dorian Iten´s Accuracy guide and his 3 excercises on youtube gave me what I wanted. I did the excercises for 30 min a day for a month (not spending to much time on an image, roughly 1-2 a day, since the purpose isn´t mainly to train mechanical measureing but your eyes´intuitive sense for accuracy.) and I started to feel confident about my accuracy. To be certain I focused on developing my eyes, I tried to take most of the measurments in my mind without using a tool. To maintain my eyes´new won intution I always mark top bottom left right when I do my anatomy studies. Hope this helps! https://www.dorian-iten.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/DorianIten/videos

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