Learn to Draw Portraits - Ep.6D Measuring

[NajmaPirani]

Thank You!

Guilty. Have been watching all your amazing videos up to now and haven't done any exercise except for the 'drawing lips' exercise. Will stop now and do the exercises, then come back to your great videos.

Thank you so much sir!

Much Love

[xFalloutVids]

Connect the dot's la la lala connect the dot's lalalalala!

[Velox415]

Huh. I've been drawing randomly off and on for years, whenever the passion takes me (and I have time!), and have always used a similar method without really thinking about it. I never knew it was an actual technique to be practiced and studied. Interesting.

[Sporkalee]

so this improves your overall observation in general? 

[AlfMagneK]

If you do a web search for "triangulation training", you will find exercises for this method

[ezcondition]

the papers weren't in line to begin with, you got some good stuff but mixing this with a protractor to make better checks & balances would be better for beginners

[URZeroGravity]

wow.. that's advance

[jwirton]

Use a pair of compasses to transfer the proportions and positions! Much easier and more practical! That´s what I always do and works good for me.

[ZachBobBob]

haha good idea :P

[ShadowLord3220]

These lessons are awesome ive always hate to use grid. Its great for beginners when dont see fairly close the shapes and all this stuff, this methods really help to look right and see what you wanna see when you draw.

[Scorps90]

I have always had trouble doing the outline and I don´t wannna grid. This helped me very mutch, thank you :D

[trupinoyboo69]

your exercises are very helpful. thanks

[miikke157]

can u plz draw shane dawson? would be absoulutly the best up there

[simpsonizer]

I normally draw cartoon contours of my subjects well. This methoud might be quite handy as Some things tend to get distorted in proportion if I have to guess the real - world distance and angle relation lol.

I aggree It's better If ya start with a triangulation "skeleton" before "skinning" people. Works great for improvising face and body poses well!

It is remarkable some people out there can just draw form right without guidelines! Practice makes perfect, yah!

[gabariton]

el cuarto punto, deberia estar mas abajo un poquito

[Noriiification]

Maybe,im stupid. But i dont understand what triangulation has to do with drawing portraits. please can someone tell me? x)

[Yujushi]

teaches you how to copy things .... i think..?

[IntensePizza]

Lol if I was given this as a test in art class,

Id giveup on drawing.

[cheesetarian]

What is this pencil/brush thing that you use in all your videos? I would dearly appreciate knowing!

[SakuraShinobi5]

ughhh i cant understand any of this!!! math isnt my thing. lmao

[FreeMindWill]

LOl Me too! XD

[ytacccc]

If you're using thick paper: Just connect the dots when you're finished. This will help you see whether you've done everything correctly.

Just came to my mind when seeing you wonder at the end of the exercise ;)

[InvertedExtrovert]

If you practice triangulation, with the two pieces of paper, on a constant basis, will it help to teach you how to eventually see only with your eyes without having to measure all of the time?

Also, how would you use this method to draw things that are bigger or smaller than a 1-to-1 scale?

[argamangmail]

you are an amazing teacher

i have been drawing for years, studied by myself

but this is the first time i had a chance to see bunch of tricks and methods that really work for me, what i like the most are your explanations about the tricks. you are a great teacher.

thanks

yehuda

Israel.

[hannahspaperjewels1]

@argamangmail 

[Club2987]

Drawing in general improves accuracy, but triangles are great tools to use for mapping out proportionals. You should let it be very organic though. If you try to draw like it's math you'll end up with dead lifeless art. Practice and trust your eyes.

[EclecticAsylumArt]

Just like Club said. The math is why it works and the math can be recreated simply. But with practice you will learn to trust your eyes at referencing the points and triangulate without having to constantly measure. Eventually you will get to the point where you only take measurements and double check when something seems wrong and you can't figure out why.

[jadeafi0003]

wow i was bout to say wat if im not carrying a ruler with meh...

hahahah

[NobsiV]

WOOOW.... sorry my english isnt the best... and so its difficult for me to say how excellent your drawing course is!!!

I love to draw, but i had always one great problem... the proportions... and nobody could explaint it so, that i could understand this part of the drawing process.

With your 3 points i have now found the last part for me to draw realy.

BIG BIG THX!

Greetings from Vienna Austria

[Sefardi123]

Good exercise. Gets to the point of it (pun intended..).

[ParamoreFan006]

Those are the best drawn dots in the universe!

[HGV1990]

thats great man i draw too and the one thing i always had problems with was that measuring. , thanks man. i love ur art

[lavenderblossom]

Hahah no matter what I do,all my drawings come out looking like something I puked.

>_>

[mentalboy11]

try drawing slower, and at smaller increments. if you dont feel you have the patience, draw something you are more experienced at drawing to help lose the frustration and see yourself doing good art, something sub-conscious i guess, but it works for me!

[lavenderblossom]

Thanks a lot!

Your advice sounds really good,and helpful,so I'm going to give it a shot.

:)

[XD4133]

just keep drawing XD!

[lavenderblossom]

...That's what I do.

T_T

[CapitalAlchemy]

I consider myself a very good artist when it comes to realism. I really do have a very good eye, but I am always slightly off. This is a great technique developer. Keep this stuff comin'! I really am enjoying this! Awesome, man! simply awesome!

[Klaymenn]

oh yeah, a^2+b^2=c^2.. thanks!

[aristoteles727]

what de f...?!?!??!

[olekristen]

boooring

[adimeshort]

wow.... i see z = z^2 + c ha ha, j/k thanks for the great vids

[live2surf44]

what kind of pencil are you using?

[ithinklikeacow]

I did not realize it but I was already doing this with my eyes but did not know thankyou it helps me to know that I am on the right track

[Littlev234]

so when is Measuring used in portrait drawing? or how does it help?

and out of the 3 that you use which would be the best ?

[giglywiglygo]

imo triangulation is the best!!

its simple!!!!

[EclecticAsylumArt]

I thing triangulation is the best for drawing what you see. Proportions rules work well for cartooning and imagining faces, but triangulation works for anything you see...not just portraits. Once you have trained your eyes it works for drawing from life without having to measure.

[jjstudios100]

@EclecticAsylumArt is this the method you used to learn to draw portraits

[EclecticAsylumArt]

Portrait drawing has to be very exact to get a likeness so measuring is very important. Next episode will be about using a photograph when I get the time in May.

[Littlev234]

ok thanks!

[AgaCobra]

When are you going to do a self-portrait?

[pitobrain]

What's the best measuring system that you recommend?

[EclecticAsylumArt]

I use triangulation, plum, and horizon lines. Mostly because they can all be done by eye with practice. When using the pencil as a measuring tool it helps to make the mark by eye first then double check it with an actual measurement to see how close you got. This will help you learn to trust your eyes.

[sharkhead7854]

It's easier to draw black and white for you too, right?

Since the values are already determined for you?

Just wondering because that's all I can do, I'm really bad at copying color photos.

[EclecticAsylumArt]

It's easier for everyone to draw black and white. It takes awhile to learn to separate value from color. It's easier to learn to do value on its on then complicate things with color. Value is still the foundation even if drawing/painting in full color.

[sharkhead7854]

Ok, thanks so much for responding!

[marcoseiji]

thank you! this videos are great!

[Bertsura]

Pretty neat but I imagine it would be a lot more difficult if it's not a 1-to-1 scale.

[EclecticAsylumArt]

Everything is easier in 1-to-1 scale. It works at any scale but it is harder to practice. I use it for giant street painting.

[Bertsura]

Yeah, it's complicated but I understand the general idea behind it. Cool method. I guess you've done it so much that you can basically eyeball the curves themselves.

[gussaldanha]

one question, sir.

the values... have a tendency to distort the real distance between two points. is this true? i mean, thats what i feel. so maybe that may cause problems in the stimation.

[SchoobaSteve]

koooool

[EclecticAsylumArt]

Opps that wasn't supposed to go public...its part 4

[boobtubious]

Have you ever done any pointilism paintings Jason? curious...

[EclecticAsylumArt]

yes I have

[boobtubious]

A speed painting of that would be an interesting video endeavour, may be long and arduous though :)

[armoredyosk]

nice

[iiswansongii]

I draw by feel. You are way better than me so I guess these sort of practices make an artist better...but at first glance for me, I'm not sure 'what' it is supposed to teach me. Or, how will it make me better? I can look at a picture, and can draw it by eye...wouldn't that be the same thing? I think mimicking photos is the same as this and to me would be alot more fun. Most of my beginning sketch books have pictures I drew from photos. (not tracing...by eye)

[Synonymtoast]

niiice... you should teach art for a living xD

[FueledByRock]

wow, ur a really good teacher, especially for the internet where there are mostly amateurs who don't really know what they're doing. great job!

[MGZolyn]

awesome!

[DaxFlameLover51]

luv ya