Charcoal & Graphite Portrait Demo - Proko
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Date: 2022-03-14
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Comments and reviews: 5
Dismythed
Sorry, Stan, but I strongly disagree with your assessment and timeframe of grid use. When I was a kid, grids in puzzle/coloring books skyrocketed my skill. It taught me to accurately visualize proportions and trained me to visualize a grid for more accurate transfers from visual to paper. Grids are a very beginner technique, training the hand and eye. It should be done from the beginning. Doing it years later will be pointless.
The top of the model's nose cartilage should have been the middle line. His face is in quarters, not thirds: forehead, eyebrows down to top of nose cartilage, nose cartilage to midline of mouth, and midline of mouth to chin area are all generally the same length. Thirds is only one type of face.
You get eyes wrong because you draw the way you think eyes look based on your training and not the actual planes of the eye in front of you.
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Sorry, Stan, but I strongly disagree with your assessment and timeframe of grid use. When I was a kid, grids in puzzle/coloring books skyrocketed my skill. It taught me to accurately visualize proportions and trained me to visualize a grid for more accurate transfers from visual to paper. Grids are a very beginner technique, training the hand and eye. It should be done from the beginning. Doing it years later will be pointless.
The top of the model's nose cartilage should have been the middle line. His face is in quarters, not thirds: forehead, eyebrows down to top of nose cartilage, nose cartilage to midline of mouth, and midline of mouth to chin area are all generally the same length. Thirds is only one type of face.
You get eyes wrong because you draw the way you think eyes look based on your training and not the actual planes of the eye in front of you.
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Anushka
You are so animated, Proko, teamed with a vivacious personality. Such good stuff, the way you put together all the elements of black, grey and white makes complete and total sense. Its wonderful that you bring this portrait to life on paper the way you do. Unique and well-rounded techniques, practised over years and finally letting our eyes feast on. such great visual candy! Thank you for doing this for us! So Appreciated and so glad to have stumbled upon you guys.
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You are so animated, Proko, teamed with a vivacious personality. Such good stuff, the way you put together all the elements of black, grey and white makes complete and total sense. Its wonderful that you bring this portrait to life on paper the way you do. Unique and well-rounded techniques, practised over years and finally letting our eyes feast on. such great visual candy! Thank you for doing this for us! So Appreciated and so glad to have stumbled upon you guys.
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Kevin
I hate outlining so after I'm done, I make a bunch of copies for the mistakes I make that become a point of no return lol
Then I get a new outline and start over
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I hate outlining so after I'm done, I make a bunch of copies for the mistakes I make that become a point of no return lol
Then I get a new outline and start over
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Rolando
How can we get good quality photos of your drawings? Can we buy them? How? I mean quality like to print them out for our own studies.
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How can we get good quality photos of your drawings? Can we buy them? How? I mean quality like to print them out for our own studies.
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Nan
Sorry to say so, but more is OFF than not, with this drawing. Part of the problem is that you stop-to talk-way too often.
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Sorry to say so, but more is OFF than not, with this drawing. Part of the problem is that you stop-to talk-way too often.
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