Learn to Draw Portraits - Ep.6B Measuring

[LuneyTune72]

I have to say that these videos are very bad techniques for portraiture and they teach you nothing about hand-eye coordination (which is what art is all about.) You learn absolutely nothing by gridding a photo. Art is not this cheap and easy, it takes years of practice. That said, art is very fun and gridding is not. If you want to be an artist then learn to relax your hand and keep your eyes on the reference 95% of the time.

[TheStef263]

@LuneyTune72 Chill bro. I thought art had no real set technique, you should probably watch an episode of spongebob squarepants 'artist unknown' It might teach you a thing or two.

[LuneyTune72]

@TheStef263 There are basic techniques that you must follow if you want to learn to draw. Keeping your eye on the reference is something every artist does. As much as I love Spongebob and that episode, it has nothing to do with what I said. Anyways, there is no need for me to chill.

[kungfupanda631]

GR8 TECHNIQUE..TKS

[MrShawnstevens]

i love the grid idea,but a lightbox with the grid under the pic would work really good.the more u practice the less u may need the grid.nice tips though.

[FUTSALDEVILAUS]

when i copy a refrence image i use tracing paper to get the parts i need and then use carbon paper with it to transfer the start of the drawing.

[aidenkhery1002]

very very nice work. thanks for the amazing totorial but if the real photo is small and you want to make it bigger how will i do?

[ScapeSearch]

Grid is a terrible habit to have. I absolutely agree.

[ScapeSearch]

You're a great art teacher. Any formal education?

[hugov89]

this is awesome! You're encouraging me not to give up and I love how you teach.

[allie717723]

Are you using a Mechanical pencil? It kinda looks like it... I like to use #2 wooden Pencils...

I draw anime. And things close to anime. What utensil would be best for it?

Please and Thank you for any response you give me :)

[xxmagnumforcexx]

@allie717723 there is a set you can get at most art & crafts stores or online " pigma sensi" anime set, it has really nice blacks for inking and it comes with a mechanical pencil that is great,it's like 19.99 for the set but i've been using the same set for like 3 months now and they're still fine...well hope this helps

[Misplaced776]

I don't think I've seen measuring explained better than this! Thank you so much!

[Mrluisao17]

and if im not drawing on a real scale i need to know how to measure by eye rigth??

[asadrocker]

you are such a nice teacher i am really thank full to you!

[ApertureScienceDBA]

In your description box the link is not for the 6C but for the 6D , 1 episode skipped.

[spidy2010]

drawing with grid is bad habit..as far as drawing from a photo its wonderfull but it would make it a lot harder when you drawing from a live model, instead just draw one vertical and horzintal line cutting each other in the middle and rest you should trust your eyes..plus it will make you much better artist ..

[selphiexfairy]

this guy reminds me of a math teacher i had in high school LOL. no joke. the way he talks and everything is very similar. my math teacher also drew portraits and i remember he had giant grids on his classroom walls he had students make and history teachers always had his drawings up in his classroom that he drew of historical figures. it kind of makes me think about what would have happened if i had asked him to teach me to draw. xD

[zeokenX]

@selphiexfairy If I was that teacher Id invite you after school,then show you,but during the lesson,Id quickly surprise you by yanking off your shoes and socks and give you a foot massage that would make you say "O.o WHAT DO YOUR THINK YOUR DOING!? STOP IT AT ONCE! o.O" to "...ILL COME BACK AFTER SCHOOL TOMMOROW THAT FELT GOOD O.O" =o

[ab3k1nz]

what type of pencil is that called?

[ikbenhetdatweetje1]

its noob to urse boxes

[Kmars121]

I have a little sketch book and a 4B and HB pencils from school, and Im gonna draw and draw and draw :p

[3eneboy]

i find measuring angles in real life drawings hard /:

[greeneyes1369]

up until now I have strictly been a cartoon artist. Hopefully the transition from cartoons to realistic objects wont be too difficult.

[UponParallelUniverse]

lol this is much better than my method, mine is just to stare and study something until it becomes natural for both my mind and eyes to understand it.

[krisdizon888]

The grid lines are so helpful.. tnx

[darthd95]

are there difficult and easy faces to draw? or you allways follow the same rules and technics

[boogerdeeunit]

lol wow i can't believe how simple this is..

[lzlsanatomy]

I hate grid coz i hate math! haha

[Bak3dB3an]

u shouldnt hate math.. math is everywhere.. even in art!

[mrjimmyos]

How so?

[mandyroxurworld]

i've been drawing scince i was a toddler, i'm only 13 now, a trick to drawing i find that always helps me, is to feel what you are drawing. say you are drawing a lonely old man, feel his loneliness and try to draw with that feeling.

works for me anyway.

great videos EAA.

5*

[mrjimmyos]

If you're 13 and you know that already, you're gonna go a long way ;)

[mandyroxurworld]

thanks, i hope so.

[klauduks]

for some weird reason i think i agree with you :) :D

[mrsfuzionzero]

@mandyroxurworld

that's idiotic

[mandyroxurworld]

how so?

[pichkari8636]

but i can't draw it exactly without using the grid : (

i have been trying for some time now, but it never looks like the person

[idntmnd]

world does not revolve around you. Video is not supposed to make you laugh or whatsoever. Don't like it don't watch it, clear enough for you?

[Bibonien]

Nope, sry.

[sleepydood]

One trick to reduce the amount of lines you have to dig out with any kind of grid or rough is to use a light table (or a piece of glass with a lightbulb under it for those of us without the cash for a real lighttable) and rework your final drawing on top of your grid without actually drawing on the same grid or gesture or w/e rough drawing you have that might be tough to pull out.

[Manoura727]

im the hundredth comment!!!!!! =]

[f520]

This one i didn't know. Nice measurement technique. Thanks

[gandalfaro]

TY! man! you are the best

[Dawid90dd]

Really thanks for the all videos. Im 13 and im starting "the adventure of graphic World" The Videos Is really Help me. Really Thanks EclecticAsylumArt !! For you 5/5 !!

[calebyeatts]

im young too and just finished my first portrait

[trupinoyboo69]

wow.. this video really helped me alot. MUCH APPRECIATED

[MooxSensei]

Grids just take the soul out of a piece for me.

I had to do it for art class, so I took it home and erased all those stupid lines and just drew what I saw. It makes it more of my own, and I don't feel like a living scanner. It's also is just so much more fun, for me.

[daccord1]

this is how my teacher for general art told us to start our drawings...I never liked it and it always takes forever to draw the grids =[

[cornflash]

I read in a book when you want to make a straight line you should make short strokes that are not connected to each other. That way you can make your line look straighter.

[TheMrMaddhatter]

i pefer geture becuase you can cupture the emotion

[countryboynate]

grids the best

[allahoakbar789]

bullshit

[africanjewel]

VERY SEXY HANDS... I am smitten with your work!!!

[choongwoman]

grid dont work 4 me anyway

[antcobra]

i kno roght

[anubis5252]

yeah..i only use my eyes to draw something..i never used grid on paper

[youngnewtonian]

You can use your pencil to take measurements at a distance... This way you'll be more accurate in drawings... Just take your pencil and stretch your arm out. Close one eye and take the measurements.. Ofcourse it is not an accurate method, but believe me, if you are a beginner, this will help you "See" things better. Trusting brain in initial stages is like sketch suicide...

[lostdenizen]

Thanks, I guess, youngnewtonian (if that was intended for me), but I'm actually not much of a beginner anymore, haha. I'm almost done with my AP art course, and I actually study a lot of various things. I can't express how important it is to actually study out of books as opposed to just copying things. Observational practices are still important too though.

[npunctc]

well, it depends what you're drawing, if you want to enlarge, distort, or repeat an exact image, a grid is great to use. It doesn't have to be someone else's work or a photo :P you can actually use it on your own stuff

[yeahweiting]

whos that guy

[786hanif]

'whos that guy'

the best

[Pambie36]

What a phenomenal teacher you are! I have taken classes with some of the "finest" teachers & not learned half as much as I've learned from your videos. Awesome.

[Kincyy]

Oh my god - this video helped me like sooo much drawing portraits!! Thank u!

[emilbiz]

thanks for the help. What if you have a smaller picture you are looking at and you want to draw a larger one..how would you measure then?

[karlakachel]

you just have to make the grid (or raster?) on which you draw bigger than the photo or picture you copy ... o.O

[WhoSfgas]

use ratios

[karlakachel]

or if you want to to it with the pencil (2nd part of the video) you can just use the same technique: multiply ... if you want to draw a line two times bigger than the orignal, well multiply the line with 2. you can also use photoshop or a ruler or a camer obscura or ... whatever ...

[alphabetabcs]

dude ur like so godly and awesome at drawing all these techniques work and really help me!

[Sara476476]

Wait i have a question how do u draw that dudes hair? I mean its white and also the shape is so different!

[graffnameseed]

its all about shading and simulating textures cus thats wat a face is, there is no lines just high and low points and shades of color

[Sara476476]

Oh i see tnx for telling me! :)

[painting]

grid is pretty much a more complicated way of tracing an image.

[armezzomo]

filhos da puta!!

[skylineaddict]

My art teacher discourages me from using grids as well. The thing is, I've practiced drawing without them, but I really can't get any form of accuracy without it. The grid allows me to get everything where it's supposed to be. As you said, it works better for some people than others.

[LILJAYJAY902]

but what is your drawing like a person in front of you.............you dont go up to his eye like tht......or if your drawing like a city from a birds eye view. what would u do

[EclecticAsylumArt]

You hold your pencil in front of your face and take a measurement. Or if you eyes are trained you do comparison measurement from other features using triangulation angles.

[djarnexus]

hey man thanks for the shading tutorial =) I used it to do a picture i did recently =) and also um... I made a time lapse for the first time using the picture that i drew using what i learned from your drawing/shading tutorial =)

[aktifistri]

@LILJAYJAY902 : there are a lot of sources of different technique you can find here..you watch what you need or wanna learn. Wanna learn measuring technique or grid drawing we can enjoy this, if we feel a need to learn painting..then this drawing tips are not the one we should watch by now.. varied stuff are meant to be here for varied reason/needs.. so, keep browsing, i guess.. to me i found this person's videos are very useful to learn about drawing and painting comprehensively.. :)

[ACAL2295]

thnks this is just wat i needed. recently, my drawings were all off measurement

[Johannady]

so that explains the dots on your monalisa painting...

[marshmelow]

grids are okay as a learning tool. As you draw more and more and learn muscle control, you can do away with the grid.

[xhemajlkada]

thank you very much about this video this is very clear

[malicebaby]

i always found grids so confusing...but people who use grids correctly, the drawing looks just like the picture. it's just drawing from one square to another.

[Yout00ber1]

ive used a grid in a portrait and it was very successful.

[gaud123]

and what are you gonna do when someone sits for a portrait?

[Yout00ber1]

take a picture and draw it,I don't need a grid, it just helps to make sure proportions are correct.

[davinciman04]

a real artist doesn't need a grid to ensure proper proportions

[Yout00ber1]

yea well im only 15 years old.

[erickito713]

he never said he was a artist =P

[djarnexus]

well it is a good method to get your eye under control at first (by me doing a grid 1x it set me in the correct direction w/ my drawings) it encouraged me to draw a virtual 'grid' w/ my eyes, aka eye ballin xD it helped me a bit... but i dont do it anymore tho so ur right after a while it becomes superfluous.

[EclecticAsylumArt]

Grid work for some people and others they don't. The biggest problem with the grid is that it becomes a crutch and isn't flexible to learn to "eyeball measurements". That

is why triangulation works better. It uses the relationship between points that you are seeing instead of referencing something that is overlaid.

[jadeafi0003]

wat mesurements did u use???

[mobopasorphic]

holy your so talented.

[dwq8762]

do you always use points to measure the space before you start to draw or paint a picture?

I'm curious about that.

[sk8erkle]

thanks this helped so much! :)

[mlm6988]

i hate measuring...it really takes the fun out of drawing. free-hand adds character.

[jtartsy]

i feel you on that one

[TheFemaleDurden]

I sort of agree. But when you're doing a portrait and want it to look like the person, you really should use measurments. If you making up your own people, feel free to free hand.

[LoricaLady]

Thanks!

[Lunaefoxs]

I was wondering if you had anything on drawing hands... I have found that I am having trouble making them look real and proportioned.

[onlyadot]

draw two large circles make five lines in an arc shape and outline a hand they won't look perfect the first time but after you get good with the open hand you can basically mold it into anything you want

[Emescher]

3:23

Thats impressive, I've seriously never seen anyone draw a straight line freehand before :)

(Just to clarify, I'm not sarcastic or ironic)

[roaldsena]

you should show us how you work from a live model that would really really help...cause you can't be just confined with photographs working outside the studio shows your real skill.

[boomaster2007]

thank you

[cornfednebraskaneer]

Michaelango, Degas, Da Vinci, and Durer others used grids to an extent, not to mention a famous contemporary realist named Chuck Close. The logic of a grid and the measurement techniques you portray are not so different. All that said, the grid isn't the end-all be-all, and it would do an artist well to rely less and less on a gridding system. It's really a learning process, as you're suggesting here, and training one's eye to make spatial relations (to begin with).

[chunkydome]

some good points about the grid, it doesn't really increase your ability to eye-ball the drawing.  But it does help a whole lot when drawing something in detail from photograph or covering a perspective drawing (highly useful), other than that, i agree completly

[knowskill5]

i have a hard time maintaining the angle when i move my pencil. any suggestions?

[darkjumpy]

When you move your pencil, try not to move your wrist; move your whole arm instead, from the shoulder.

[cinamorrolcrystal]

this guy gives a great example in describing, and it really helps=)

[Lunaefoxs]

That is a beautiful steady hand you have. I enjoy your drawings and they have helped me improve my own drawings. Do you do this as a living? (instructing) You are a very good instructor, you could make a butt load of money doing that! If not, you should.

[SamOvTheUK]

Or just selling his drawings and paintings :P

[Ookami13345]

"...many of us forget that we have two eyes..." lol... that was pretty funny. And true; great video by the way.

[Tydo90]

He really needs to tone down that light cant see fuck all

[Leotribal]

its sketched, you do not draw in dark lines when you plan to draw like an artist...

[Tydo90]

lol yeh but what good is it being a tutorial if u cant see it he can easily just stop shinging that light on it so we can see the sketches aswell

[kittykitt1]

ACK. This helps so much. Now I'm terrible at anatomy, especially facewise. Grids could help a lot, especially portrait wise. :]

[doodleidiot]

Thank you for making drawing fun. Your videos have been much more help in teaching me how to draw than the books I bought.

I prefer freehand drawing and measuring proportions than following grids and my results are getting more recognizable. Keep the videos coming Jayman!

[SiR0001]

i love you....

in a totally platonic way of course ;3

keep making these vids!

[RbBRnr]

what kind of pencil to u use???

[EclecticAsylumArt]

4B graphite in a Caran D'Ache Fixpencil 77 leadholder.

[meotoko77]

A whatty da whatta???

[meotoko77]

A whatty da whatta???

[debcoart]

THANK YOU for taking the time to show us all of this. :D

[RTardEntertainment]

You actually get motion sickness because of your ears.. so that theaory kinda doesnt work good.

[Madblaster6]

Grids make it to easy!

[CT2507]

Cant watch this... the vid stops right after start. Whats with these faulty vids! Didnt Youtube learn how to do it by now!!?

[cluyts]

well some people just can't be satisfied can they jayman?

look at his drawings...you'll see what I mean...

they are really good and here in this vid he's explaining what is important so what matters with how he draws lines here doesn't matter whatsoever! it's the result that counts!

[7JayMan7]

with all due respect, you scratch a line like a chicken in a pen....the true artist does it in one solitary stroke : )

but, keep up the good work.

[CT2507]

So u are a "True artist" moron... I knew it would be only a matter of time before idiots like u would appear around here talking about how to put down the lines! Solitary strokes my arse! Its the result that counts. Can u draw portraits like this guy, if not the shut your face!

[SuperHamster2]

that's not true what you're saying there jayman. this is called scetching. artists always put more than one line on their paper. that's how a good scetch looks. also, he has to do it several times for the video, one line might be too light to see in the video. and please don't talk about 'true artists' every artist is diffrent.

[5t33v]

he DOES have other videos explaining "how to draw lines".. you could have a look at them if ur having trouble jayman? also, cluyts is right ^^^^^^

and another thing CT2507, jayman didnt say anywhere that he was a "true artist"

[beejman013]

the only people who i see draw a line in one stroke are the people who can't draw.  "like a chicken in a pen?" what kind of goofy simile is that?

[SomeoneOnTheInternet]

You look like Johnny Depp

[foodlover77]

thank you for these! :)

[SchoobaSteve]

this is great

[artmemoirs]

These tutorials are wonderful.

[fondasaurusrex]

You would make a lot of money selling these . But please don't ! We like them for free.

[mabbie328]

o yea i allways for get i have two eyes sometimes i think i have 3 or 4 hehe

[Cabage411]

This stuff is pretty cool.

[thesecondcomin14]

yea u rock