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Published: 2009-02-06 20:29:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 294882; Favourites: 4470; Downloads: 5069
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As promised, because I love you people:My proportions tutorial!
Since every drawing is unique, I explained the techniques I used. It's up to you to practice them, yay!
You know... sometimes it makes me wonder why I keep posting tutorials since there are still a couple of people out there who say "I give people false hope" or "everything's fake anyway".
But when I read all the comments of fellow artists, e-mails of art students or people who just happened to come across my gallery and private notes of people who are happy to see my tutorials and find them really useful, I just melt!
And you know what? Even some art teachers are using my tutorials for school assignments after they've asked for my permission, lol!
What a strange world we live in.
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It's a shame I just don't have the time to publish my art book yet, but someday I will...
Have fun everyone and keep up the good work!
If there are any questions left, please feel free to note me about it!
Watch my other tutorials here!
1. Eye tutorial
2. Nose tutorial
3. Hair tutorial
4. Shading & Blending tutorial
5. Drawing Progress tutorial
6. Detailed Hair part 1
7. Detailed Hair part 2
8. Editing Drawings <-- got a Daily Deviation!
9. Drawing Materials
10. Male Lips tutorial
11. Female Lips Tutorial
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Comments: 492
thank you so much for the tutorials they are a blessing to me I'm not in schoolbut my desire is to bettermyself also.So I can be a blessing to a others.Pass the knowledge. BE BLESSED!
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Awesome I used three out of five unknowingly
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I just love this! Thanks for making such a well designed tutorial.
I really like how thorough everything is explained. It's easy to understand and extremely useful.
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I spy a Sam and an impala. <3
Very nice tutorial. Proportions always kill me!
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Very appreciated and helpful. Even to an experienced artist these tutorials come in handy.
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I've just started drawing and I have to say that your tutorials have helped a lot 
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Uhm, mirrors! I don't get it with your picture of Katie. It does look equal to me in both directions. The "defects" you are talking about I do see equal in both.
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Very interesting approach to drawing a face. I'm reading Andrew Loomis's Drawing the Head and Hands and it's completely different technique.
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Thankyou for this tutorial. Its very helpful. I am a beginner and for the first few portraits I used the grid method. I found it to be to time consuming and not as much fun. So the last one I did I used a ruler and divider and found I got a better result and had alot more fun doing it. My question is, this is working well for doing a portrait with one person but I'm worried about centering when it comes to adding another. So how do I make sure my placement is correct when I start if I'm using the line method?
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Thankyou so much! I am really enjoying these tutorials! They are very helpful!
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I really appreciate this tutorial, I have an awful time at proportions when it comes to drawing people. This will def. come in handy! thanks!!
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you are a-ma-zing! tons of thank-yous, for submitting such stuff..I was always extremely lazy when it came to improving my techniques, because I used to find tutorials sooo boring..but, not anymore..now, I'm going to take my ass to do some serious job...
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This is probably going to sound *really* stupid, but just bear with me, because I'm kind of clueless about this. With gridding, do you draw the lines and erase them when you're done, or... How do you do it? Because I figure that erasing them messes up the drawing. Hmm. Very tricky.
Thanks for these tutorials!
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Thank you so much for posting these tutorials, I haven't drawn since highschool and I'd love to get back into drawing these are helping me get back into it and brushing me up on all of the things i've forgotten over the years.....some ppl are just haters
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Nice tutorial!! Ive never heard of mirroring before so that got me excited. Cant wait to try it.
Another technique ive heard of is to turn both your drawing and your ref upside down. When you cant recognise the shapes as being eyes and noses and such, your more likely to draw them accurately. Plus it always puts a smile on my face to turn the drawing rightside up again and be surprised at the progress.
I am nowhere near as good of a pencil artist as you, but I hope to be someday!! Thanks for being inspiring!!
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geweldig!
Mag deze downloaden? Zo ja, hoe dan? :s
En mag ik het ook afdrukken?
xx
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Thank you very much! Although I worked with lines till now, all of my drawings seem to be wrong. I'll definitely try mirroring!
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Thanks for that tutorial...
Until now I always used free hand... which turned out horrible very often
I'm glad that I find new options here of how to make the proportions correctly
I would be pleased if my art teacher would help us with some little tips like they are here in your tutorial
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I must say that these tutorials are great!! Very nice of you to put them up for us to use! This must have been a lot of work! I wish to say "Thank You".
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I never use grids or anything, I always draw freehand. And I always use references that are a lot smaller than the drawing I'm making. But then again, I am not trying to copy the reference, I am trying to capture the likeness and character of the person in the reference. And I usually do get a good likeness, despite the fact that I work fast (seldom more than 5 hours in a portrait). All this goes to show how much art methods can differ from artist to artist! Thanks for the tutorials.
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Thank you so much. I quit drawing years ago, one of the main reasons being I could never get proportions of faces correctly, or drawing realistically in general. I felt so bad for only being able to draw cartoons. I hope to use your advice to draw again.
Inc. more favorite spam.
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Really good tip about mirroring, its so true, i actually just remember i usually look at my drawings on the mirror after finished, didnt knew why.
I only draw freehand, i always have thought i was wrong because i didnt draw figures first, you know the skeleton, i havent really tried to do them, i just think is really hard, so i do it freehand... but oh well, to each is own.
thanks for the tips
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WOW! these are one of the best tutorials I have ever read! ...and FUNNY TOO...LOL!
You must have read this thousands of times....but seriously..THANKS A LOT! & YOUR DRAWINGS AND TUTORIALS are WONDERFUL!
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Deaier, detail: since something is probably changed about dA, the actual size of the deviation now is too tiny :°°
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This is an awesome tutorial! It's interesting to see the different ways of doing things. Thank you!
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WOW .AWESOME *___* Specially with dr. House's face
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Ah, my art teacher in high school taught me about mirroring.
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Giving false hope??? Everything's fake??? You have such an amazing skill and you are actually ready to share your knowledge with the world. I may never be able to achieve your perfection, but I will worship you and learn from your tutorials.
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Now you mention it... it is kinda small, isn't it? D:
I'll try to upload a larger file when I'm at my old computer again
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Thanks, I couldnt see the words until I used the image address in a new window.
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Thank you, this'll be very helpful! could you perhaps make the type a little easier to read though?
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thank you! Proportions R my bigest problem especialy since i draw free hand
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I never realized how important this was, I'm used to drawing "free hand" but since it doesn't work for me, I've gotta do sth and figure my way of proportioning my sketches.
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This is very useful. And if you don't have time to publish your book, you can use lulu.com to help. I don't know all the ropes around that site, but I don't think it's too difficult or expensive. Thanks for making this tutorial<3
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Yay! Freehand <3 It takes me ages but I'm one of the lucky people who can do it
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Awesome information! Cant wait to get home and try a few of your tips tonight!
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i tried mirroring my drawing of ezio auditore and i have to say, ow that i've mirrored it i want to go back and redo the whole thing. but the reason that happens may be because i only draw freehand because that's how i taught myself to draw. good tips!
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I use the mirroring technique, too (or sometimes I turn the paper around and shine some light behind it so I can see the flipped version.) It makes a big difference! I always notice things I wouldn't have without it! I usually discover that my picture is completely lopsided. : P
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I always have the proportion problems when i draw portraits especially side faces. I hope my drawing much better.
Thanks for the tutorial.
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I have a different method all together, I measure out points of the image using the reference, and end up with a like dot-to-dot type thing.. it's extremely tedious, but it's the only thing that works for me!
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So, I definatley love you for drwaing Jared Leto <3
AND Hugh Laurie. Your drawings are wonderful and this tutorial was really helpful. Thankyou so much
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that part about the eyes and their distance apart isnt nececelery true rpbert downey jrs eyes are a bit under one eye length apart and the dude who plays merlins eyes are further apart from each other
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Thank you for this tutorial... I use the freehand method with a little bit of the line method... I also copy from my laptop... I save the picture and use it as a reference right form the screen so it's harder.. I guess that's why my drawings don't look as good... You're tutorials have helped a lot, and I have been improving because of them!
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