Portrait Drawing: Sasha, Part 3
Added 2019-10-11 16:22:23 +0000 UTCHere is the final installment of this month's tutorial.
Audio start times- 7:00, 25:31, 38:41, 1:04:46, 1:27:30
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Hi Danie- cool question. Some of what you are experiencing falls under the early career drawing issues category. In order to get accuracy at first will require that you have some less than organic means. In academies that will mean multiple critiques, sight size, or some other means- which are all perfectly good and useful. As time goes on you will develop a pattern to monitor your process and the errors you often make. This combined with effective and/or rigorous measuring should get you where you want to go. The sledding is rough at first, of course. I am a whatever means necessary kind of guy- if accuracy is very important take the steps needed to get there. If the study and practice is necessary- understand that the resulting inaccuracy is there to show where improvement is needed.
Stephen Bauman Artwork
2022-11-19 10:05:40 +0000 UTCHello Stephen. A question about methodology while following along with your video tutorials, and specifically related to proportions. What I have done of course is draw along with your tutorials choosing a similar pose from the model pack . When the whole tutorial is done (the video running time), I have then taken a photo of my drawing, and then I “split-screen it” on my iPad, so I can have a side by side comparison between my drawing and the model reference. I can thus spot easily and adjust for proportional inaccuracies etc, and make revisions (this feels a bit like Sight size, though not exactly of course). Although it works nicely, this “add on” of mine using my iPad at the end does feel too mechanic, less organic as I would like. I would like to spot my proportional errors of course much earlier in the game. I know you stress having a good block-in in basically every lesson you make, so just getting more accurate at the block in stage I think is the main answer, but do you have any additional suggestions on getting my proportions better (without making those “1 cm adjustments to nose height”, at the very end, when all values are filled, unfortunately )? My thinking is to do a more comprehensive “proportion check” at the end of each video segment, in addition to making natural corrections as I go. And lastly, I have tried a modified sight-size setup (photo and drawing paper side by side, on my wall) and it worked very well, but again for me, it felt too mechanical, not organic enough. In this sense, I do prefer comparative measurement to sight size techniques (it is a bit more challenging to get accuracy right away, but feels for me like a more organic and enjoyable process. I do understand though the benefits of a Sight Size style approach, seeing your drawing and reference side by side). My goal is to be more “organic” in drawing a portrait, trying to less on “external measuring techniques”, though I do understanding that measuring does play an important role in the process. Anyway, just any general or specific suggestions would be great. Thanks, Daniel
Daniel Morris
2022-11-19 02:20:08 +0000 UTCAnswered this on the first moment of my most recent YT livestream.
Stephen Bauman Artwork
2020-12-29 07:46:50 +0000 UTCMaybe this isn't a question that can be answered... but controlling the value applicationg of the chalk is really hard... I see that you use the white lead as a fainter white... Do they have some kind of greasiness to them to stick on fabric? When I come with the more opaque Faber Castell on top, it kinda just slips off... And then you dilute the egg tempera to meet the Faber Castell, but maybe my brush strokes are clumsly but I can't avoid brushing off the underlying white that sits so delicately on the substrate...
Andy Rodriguez
2020-12-28 15:04:22 +0000 UTC
