Project - Proportions

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Project - Proportions

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Practice incorporating proportional measurements into your existing drawings, focusing on brow-to-chin distances and dividing the face into halves and thirds. Then, create 20 new drawings, spending about 5 minutes on each, applying all five steps you've learned.

This time limit helps maintain focus, but it's flexible if needed. The goal is to reinforce good habits and avoid overthinking or underdoing your work.

We have 20 new reference images that you can use in the downloads section as well!

Angelica

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15d

This assignment is done. I'm slowly improving. You can actually see it when looking back at my first submission (first picture but with added proportion lines) and comparing it to this one. That feels nice. Some of these I feel confused about, for example 14. My feeling is she looking down and we looking slightly down at her but when looking at the relationship between brow and ear I would say we slightly looking up at her? And another thing I feel unsure about is the ones where you looking up just slightly. Should I indicate that tilt in the jaw, even if you don't actually see it in the reference?

@paka

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19d

Starting to get the hang of these. Would have loved to see more demos on foreshortening of proportions on harder angles. It wasnt really needed for this assignment, as the angles are much more straightforward, but I dont think I would be able to aply the same guidelines to some of the more extreme poses of the previous assignment.

@josephl

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21d

This is my assignment for proportions. I feel like I got the hang of it more as I kept doing it but I keep messing up the chin length in some places and I noticed that I don't cut off the sides of the head correctly at some hard angles. I have a lot of trouble with the really drastic angles.

Patrick Bosworth

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21d

Nice work!

Yevhen Syrchin

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23d

the 4th angle was difficult for me, can you please give a feedback about this one?

Faun

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24d

here's my assignment

El Dorce

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2mo

Here are my sketches so far!!

Ter L

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2mo

here are some sketches

Ben Whitfield

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2mo

My attempt at the assignment. Still struggling with understanding the build of the underside of the chin and contours of the next. Any suggestions on how to improve my drawings are appreciated.

Ash

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2mo

Yeah finding the shape under the chin is challenging. Try defining the mandible instead of one long line from the bottom of the ear down to the chin. We have a more trapezoid shape under our chins instead of a square. I like where you're going with it! Keep drawing more, Ben!

Brian Judy

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2mo

Getting pretty challenging. Lots of things to keep track of, and I think I'm gonna have to do a lot of these and get some of this in my subconscious brain before getting too much further into the facial features. Still struggling on how to identify the temple from imagination (referenced ones are okay) and also getting that chin correct based on the angle @Michael Hampton a question I had was when carving out the side of the skull, does the carved out ellipse go perpendicular to the angle of the head tilt, or is it that I'm suppose to follow the angle of the side plain now (like perpendicular to the brow line that goes back?

Michael Hampton

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2mo

I agree. This can feel like a lot at first. I bet you can quickly internalize it with some practice though. The lean of the cutout (side plane) should angle with the head tilt (parallel?). This plane has to match that tilt as it's still descriptive of that large form (skull).

@luggi

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2mo

Shayan Shahbazi

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2mo

this is good. nice work.

Rafael Verdov

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3mo

Hi everyone, Any comments will be much appreciated

Rafael Verdov

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3mo

Thieum

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3mo

Matt Rogers

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4mo

Looking for critique, thanks!

Rachel Dawn Owens

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4mo

These look great! These are all accurate and clean portrait studies. The only critique I might give isn’t part of the assignment but I think would make your drawings look even better. You could add more indication of the neck anatomy:

@aub

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4mo

Proportions! I added the proportions to my existing drawings and did the 20 new drawings. Timing was around 4-6min each. I have difficulty with the gesture of the back of the head.

@lauralana

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4mo

Abel Velazquez

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5mo

I'm continuing learning.

@phillip30

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5mo

Hi Michael, your thoughts appreciated. have tried to work on your prior suggest regarding the jaw being too big. i think I may need to get a better understanding of perspectives that are not straight on. Any suggestions for specific exercises would be well received

Side Shave Laura

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5mo

Oh fudge, I made these with Proko's Timer Tool, but I can't seem to find the photos. Anybody know if it's possible to download images from the Timer Tool at the end of the session so we can properly format for submissions? Admittedly hard to critique without the references, but I'm trying to break out of the Loomis head and really focus on that cheekbone.

Rachel Dawn Owens

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5mo

Nice stuff Laura! Awesome to see you here. These look great! They have a boxy quality which is perfect when drawing the head. I only notice one that looks a bit off and I tried to redraw it. It’s such a difficult angle! I now realize that I need to do my own skull studies… I think the features in this one pose would angle down away from the nose a bit more and the nose could be pushed up. I took a photo reference of a model I’ve got on my desk to help. I love your drawings! Keep it up!

Nick Quason

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6mo

I feel more and more comfortable with the basic blocking approach, still need to practice more but overall feel good. Started a bit rough but towards the end it somehow felt easier. PS: I loathe ellipses.