The girl was so much more difficult to draw because her face doesn't have as many sharp angles and straight lines, and I also drew her bigger. Not brave enough to draw her hair. I found the nose hardest to get right because in both drawings I got it wrong. I think because it kind of "floats" in the middle of the face. I had to double-check once with the guy's nose and twice with the girl's in Photoshop to figure out what went wrong.

Took a long time but I’m happy with the results.

Project - Measure Proportions

Tried this out again. This is actually my third attempt which came out the best. I spend about 20 minutes on each. I'm not really going into a lot of detail and I've been focusing on the big shapes and really simplifying lines. I think it helps a lot!

I think i messed up. Proportions were always hard for me and i don't think i did so well with this project. Would be really happy to hear some critique.

my attempt for this exercise

Hi, excuse me, maybe I shouldn't start the assignments at midnight, but I need a bit of help... so Stan has the vertical units measured (digitally) to get the five units with the hat, and then he lays in those vertical lines on paper but... the printed out reference image is much smaller than the page that he's drawing on? I may not be getting this, but isn't this eyeballing as well? The scale is different between the two pages, so how do we know where each separator goes at this point by actually measuring? I get that one unit is the hat's height, but how can we apply that to the page if we are not working one to one, side by side?

I cheated a bit and did the photoshop overlay at the big shape stage to see if I was too far off. I ended up adjusting the mouth and beard quite a bit but mostly kept the rest of it. I was happy though because I had a feeling the mouth was too low before I did the photoshop check. Second photoshop check on putting in the features revealed that the left eye is a bit too high... Would appreciate any comments! I'd say this took me about an hour and a half :[]

My attempt. Tried to do it first without the video but it is hard to do without a follow along. Had to correct a lot of parts after and i guess i over worked it.

Here is my attempt. I feel sorry for the person in the picture to be portrayed as I have portrayed them. The proportions are off, and it's a lazy attempt. I will probably do another go after the demo, but I feel that this is really only something that someone would do if they are doing realism, not any other style but correct me if I'm wrong. This process is way too tedious for me and I much prefer to either just eyeball it or I will just basic shapes to block out the subject or I will put them in an envelope as stan says. But that's the extent. It ruins the fun for me to go to this extent. Spending an hour just laying out proportions c'mon. Anyway here it is.

It took a little over an hour of measuring to put down just the big shapes. Wanted to make sure the proportions, the positioning, and the angles were similar or close enough to move on to the smaller shapes.

First attempt for this... Honestly I don't hate it! I've practiced a bit if head anatomy so I definitely used that knowledge to speed things up a bit.... What do you guys think? Might give it another whirl but we'll see

first attempt

first attempt!

How do we measure and draw without the use of a ruler? Quite confused.

This was a fun exercise, it's nice to draw off of measurements. Definitely learned a lot doing this portrait. I noticed that the ear is wider than the actual picture. I see how important accurate angles are, if you make a wrong one it can throw off all the rest of your measurements. Any advice is very welcome.

This took me about 5 hours over the course of a very long time. I feel like I could have finished this a lot sooner had I just "let go" but I also felt like that would have disregarded the point of the exercise

So my first attempt was as most people are saying, pretty exhausting lol. I tried it again with my husky, really trying to focus on the horizontal and plum lines, and I had a good time. Definitely an interesting approach. I'm looking forward to trying this exercise again in the coming year

I feel alright about this, as I feel like I learned a lot about my weaknesses. I had to switch on the reference overlay twice, mainly for the size of the eyes. I feel like it's extremely important to nail those, as it's often what makes or breaks a portrait. One thing I realized is that I really like to include value maps and ambient occlusion in my gesture lines. I tried to fight adding values here, but I feel that overall I have a tough time visualizing the form in 3D without some form of light and shadow. I have included my first version before using the overlay to show how important it is for me to double-check my measurements. I hope one day to nail them on the first try, and I feel like if I can get the eyes properly fitted, then I'll be much happier overall. Also I just realized that I unintentionally used curves. I really need to stop myself from using the Riley rhythms for projects like this.

It was really challenging. Had so much fun! Any critique is welcomed.