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How to get the right proportions when drawing a portrait?Facebook | Tumblr
According to the poll I created, you wanted to see the tutorial How to get the proportions right in a portrait? the most. I hope you find it helpful
The knowledge that the tutorial contains is based on my own tips and a couple of general advice. Huge thanks, lloveandsqualor and MJMcCaul for helping me with this tutorial. My English isn't that good to write such a long text with no grammar, style nor vocabulary mistakes. Your help is much appreciated
Therefore, I dedicate this tut to you!Drawings that you can see in the tutorial:
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This pun wasn't intended, believe me
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i know but i couldn't resist
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Thanks for this, I'll keep these methods in mind
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My pleasure, I'm glad I could help
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I really love this! your drawings are so realistic!
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Mam pytanie. Czy tak "na co dzień" przy rysowaniu portretów, mierzysz sobie te proporcje i się do nich stosujesz?
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Amaaaaaazing tutorial!! I sketch mostly anime characters but I am trying to sketch human portraits and find it quite difficul!! You've done looads of help!!!!
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I'm glad you find my tutorials helpful Thanks a bunch for kind words!
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^_^ They are aweeesome and ur most welcome!
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Thank you, I am just starting out and appreciate the info
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My pleasure, hope it helps!
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I'm glad you like it! Thanks a milion
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świetna instrukcja,na pewno z niej skorzystam.
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Dzięki wielkie 
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I'm glad it did! Thank YOU!
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Cool tutorial!
But still for me easiest way is to use Human Proportion Calculator I am using android App, it is called HPC
In internet there is also free online version
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Haven't heard of it, thank you for letting me know
And thanks, I'm glad you like the tutorial!
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Thank you, and you're welcome! Hope it's helpful
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I have learned to draw by using the first method you described and I believe that understanding those rules and proportions and adapting them to different faces and angles of view is very helpfull and effective. Of course I made mistakes sometimes and had to start over, but that's part of learning and training your eye and hand.
Maybe gridding and measuring with a ruller is cheating, but it still requires a lot of work. If you can do it completely freehand you have all my appreciation not only for the hard work, but for experience and talent.
Thanks for sharing your tutorial with us
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Yes, it does require a lot of work, you're right! For me it's a minor type of cheating, and not in a very negative sense, in contrary to drawing on a printed image... I saw many people doing it 
Thank you for kind comment and sorry for the delay
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I use a slightly different approach with gridding that I use with all my drawings (yes, I don't think I'll every be able to quit using a grid 
Yes, I draw a grid on it in photoshop. I have a grid file that I save and just paste on top of pictures so I don't have to redraw the lines every time.
Now the important part - you don't have to draw the lines on your paper. I have one paper that I drew my grid on and then inked the lines so that they're darker. Paper clip that underneath the paper you're going to draw on and then you can see the lines through it and don't have to have them on your actual drawing.
Of course you need to be using paper that you can see through.
That's just what I do. ^_^
Nice tutorial!
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To be precise, I don't use gridding nor any of these methods. I do my drawings freehand
I'm happy that you like the tutorial, tho! Thanks
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Ah. Well you can think it's wrong if you want. I'm definitely no master and don't pretend that I am, but I like to draw and I don't believe it's cheating. Tracing the major lines would be cheating, now, but that's not what I'm doing.
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I'm not a master either, actually far away from it. No one said you're not allowed to do that, but many people, including me, believe it's cheating 
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łeee ja jestem jakaś niedorobiona, wciąż nie widzę czy narysowałam coś dobrze czy nie 
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Może to przyjdzie z czasem... 
Wesołych Świąt
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Trza spróbować
Wesolutkich również
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Oh awesome! I'm so glad you actually made this tutorial! I was actually discussing these EXACT same tricks to someone in the office today that was showing me some of their sketches! I still have problems sometimes even KNOWING these rules. I am currently doing a portrait of Ian Somerhalder as Damon from Vampire Diaries. I started it at work today. So far I think it is coming out pretty good. I was thinking about the eye rule, and I think mine is a bit off, even though its not a head on angle. His right eye always looks a bit off to me.. haha. Anyways perhaps I will link you when I finish it!
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Thank you very much for the feedback, I'm glad you like my tutorial
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Thank you for such a informative and beautiful tutorial
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No, thank you for the kind comment
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Very usefull! a great tutorial, and good presentation. I wouldn't have used that vampire dude, but seriously, I'd be an idiot to criticize the tutorial on basis of that alone. Thanks very much!
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Thank you so much, I'm glad you like my tut
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That is true, yeah. kinda like he came from an assembly line or something...
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Nice tutorial, it's help me a lot!! 
I hope to be as good as you in the future
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