Learn to Draw Portraits - Ep.6i Measuring

Link to Episode 6 Part J
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHDm8tSkex4

Link to a playlist with all episodes and parts.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DE90A0B005052EFB

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Howto & Style

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[jadeafi0003]

if i wana make a portrait of lets a picture of me... how do i get all those diffenrent color of pages that u have ?

u know

how one is all dark the other all white and like the first one was just a bluer

[EclecticAsylumArt]

If you take the time to do all 4 sections of this exercise it will teach you how to see all the different pages in one photo or anything you are looking at.

[selvatico3]

fantastic tutorials! can i know wich kind of paper u use? smooth or more rough? thanks - bye

[EclecticAsylumArt]

Drawing/sketch paper has a little bit of a rough texture. Printer paper is not good to draw on.

[thumbnugget1000]

I can't believe this stuff is for free! Cheers!

[AgaCobra]

wow...just...awesome

[stinky472]

For someone to remain a portrait artist or any kind of observational artist is a perfectly great pursuit, provided that they can depart from mechanical processes and really learn to be creative with what they see. BTW try a youtube search for David Kassan and check out his latest works. I think his portraits speak for themselves and are clearly more interesting than what he would get if he merely took a picture of the subject.

[stinky472]

The main point with which I disagree is that observational drawing is somehow inferior to drawing from imagination. I think they are vastly different and arguably the latter involves more creative processes, yet observational artists aren't mere cameras. No one sees things exactly the same way or draws things exactly the same way, and no one captures things as accurately as a camera can, yet it's in this human inaccuracy that observational drawing becomes a form of art in itself.

[stinky472]

Portrait *studies* might help you draw more convincing faces from imagination though. Also illustrators in general are underrated whether it's people illustrating magazine/book covers, comic books, or anything else. They generally don't get as much attention as fine artists whose works are displayed in galleries. The common audience just doesn't pay attention to the skill and mastery used to produce a painting for a book cover as much as a painting they see in a museum. It's sad, really.

[ocelott22]

my point remains consistent. as I just read my last comments. DON'T GET STUCK HERE. That's all I'm trying to say. To be a great artist, you have to be more than well rounded. Like davinci said "A good painter is to paint two main things, namely, man and the workings of man's mind. The first is easy, the second difficult..."

[ocelott22]

comic book artists, real comic book artists like Jim Lee, Mac Silvestri, David Finch, Leinl Yu to name a few, are highly underrated when it comes to art. Most comic artists and yes, me too, can do any of this portrait stuff. On top of learning anatomy and drawing it from the imagination, we have to also learn perspective and draw cities,towns,rooms from the imgination.On top of all that,we have to tell a story and still keep a consistent style, page by page.Portrait art? I'd be crippling myself

[ocelott22]

I agree... but I dismiss most portrait art as art because like I said... most portrait artists cannot create. I don't call copying art. It's more of a study. Like I said, I've seen some people do some amzing stuff I can't do on photoshop because I haven't really explored it... but then you see their real work, with no reference and it seems that all the "study" work they've done goes out the window. The reason why I'm being dismissive is because I don't want young guys thinking this is the ...

[stinky472]

That's not to say you fit into this category, but it sounds an awful lot like you do. I was the same way when I was a teenager before I formally studied visual arts: I gave little credit to those who simply drew what they saw and much more admired comic book illustrators, animators, etc. who draw from memory and imagination. Yet even the best artists who can draw this way like Hogarth, Vilppu, Buscema, etc. became masters because they spent their time drawing from life.

[stinky472]

[...] without first learning to convincingly draw what they observe. These wannabe comic book illustrators tend to place heavy emphasis on imagination over memory because they just don't get it.

[stinky472]

[...] Before you can draw convincingly from imagination, you must first learn how to convincingly draw what you *see*, and *remember* what you saw. Skip this process and you'll at best be drawing only good-looking symbols and diagrams of what you imagine. While there are an awful lot of portrait artists who are far too mechanical in their process and start to depend on the process too much as a crutch, there are also a lot of mediocre illustrators trying to draw things from imagination [...]

[stinky472]

[...] Your emphasis on drawing from "imagination" also makes me think you must be a fan of comic book artists like Hogarth who can construct human figures quite convincingly from *memory* without the aid of a model. I emphasize *memory* because while Hogarth can create convincing figures in wild perspectives that could not be captured practically from a live model, he learned and memorized those forms from numerous live drawing sessions where he simply recorded what he *saw*. [...]