Hi, I don't understand when you take the width that you have determined on the paper and then rotate the pencil vertically it to create a square how can you be sure that after rotating it the pencil hasn't moved from the original position?
i like how you managed to get straight to the point and only talk about the subject on hand. really informative and definitely helped me figure out how to not fuck up my proportions.
Been drawing by myself since I was a little kid. I'm 25 now and this video is super interesting to me because I have no freaking technique and wing everything lol but somehow it turns out nice probably just from spending so much time on it. Maybe I can finally incorporate such a technique as this into my process to make things easier and faster for me. ^^ Thank you dude
I was the same, and was subconsciously using some comparative size/position techniques (I love doing portraits) - I know that eye's a bit low and can fix it by moving it up where the eye cavity is level with x and y - but watching a few videos like this (which I thought was great btw) made me so much quicker, formalised my thinking, and with extra ideas. In fact these sort of vids made me feel I wasn't unartistic, which I've felt at times, they made me feel like I was on the right line. Incorporate it, it's so worth it! And look for other vids too around this subject. You'll be so much quicker and if you get frustrated or feel like it's busywork trying to get things in the right place, this sort of instruction is brilliant and lets you get on with the fun stuff.
if it would be possible, i deffinitely would be liked this 3 times already, You just solved a big problem of me. I had a serious fight against proportions and perspectives. Now I see more clearly.Thank you.
@@artsyabin8145 hi, I am struggling since but not as much as then. It is. a shame but I need a teacher, so this is my new mission. Wish me luck. :) Also I am learning a lot like compositions and line art. I am a bit shy about my art in this state but I definitely see the end of the struggle now, that I did not see before.
Sir, so helpful because I stopped drawing from last 6 months and I found really hard to draw now.your tutorial help a lot to back on my drawings. Thanks. This video shows me from where to start a drawing. Thanks again.
Here is a guesstimate proportioning trick that I discovered today, which helps with proportioning complex forms before you've started breaking them down: First pick out a few points on the outline of your reference that you can use as anchors. Guess where those points land on the page, then sketch "probing" lines that simply connect all of the points to each other. All of the points will be somewhat wrong at first, but what happens when you connect them is that the probing lines will start to reveal where the error is, because they'll form different angles than what you see in the reference - and then you can go back for a more confident second pass. I've always struggled with proportion, but in a lot of cases, it comes down to a mix of using more reference and finding a way of constructing it that lets me calculate and subdivide with simpler, easier-to-estimate ratios.
Hi I’m really struggling with proportions and accuracy so this is great! However I use watercolours and often find myself left with visible sketch lines or mucky eraser marks as watercolour paints are very faint and transparent and of course I use the unpainted paper as highlights so pencil marks show through. How would you deal with this problem? Thanks!
I'm actually a watercolorist as well. But mostly landscapes so usually the sketch beforehand doesn't have to be that accurate - usually. What kind of subjects do you paint?
Thank you so much, finally someone who explains the one thing I couldn't figure out.. I DO feel kind of dumb cause now the solution seems obvious.. just make either height or width a fixed length but maaaan... this taught me more of what i wanted to know than my art classes. Sometimes it's those small things that make all the difference. So again, thank you!
100 drawing vids later about proportions and yours is by far the only true way to capture reality,not the formulaic and statuesque formula most others practice ,thanks
Thanks. Looking forward to learning more about measurements and maybe relationships (?) between objects and interior perspectives. 😀 I still struggle with these things...So tired of trying to fix a wonky interior painting.
thank you for sharing! I am new to drawing and trying to be a self thought medical illustrator. ı am always out of proportions. thank you and really looking forward to more tutorials of all kind.
I remember watching this video about a year and a half ago when I started to learn and didn't get the concept so much. What I know now though this video makes much more sense. Thank you!
2:00- it’s happened to me in the past, it’s happened to all of us. Dude- bold of you to assume that I’ve drawn before, the best I’ve done is stick figures when I was in kindergarten and I haven’t drawn since. But tysm for your tutorial on perception. It’s helping me a lot rn
Great video, taking it just a step further, couldn't you just use the Pythagorean theorem or simple Trigonometry to obtain a more precise rendering of the object whether it be larger or smaller?
Very helpful video. I'm definitely going to have to try that about keeping the width or height the same. My drawings always seem to get smaller the longer I work them.
Haha I know what you mean, it happens to us all :) Mine get larger sometimes but I do try to stick to this method and I find it helpful too. Things don't always go as planned though, so it takes a lot of practice to get used to it.
Awesome video Brandon! I've been following your channel for a couple years and doing art for about that long, but I learned something with this video. Keep it up man, Hope to see you hit that million sub mark!
Glad to hear :) I'm going to be focusing more on the basics and fundamentals for a while because it seems it would help a lot of folks out. I think it'll be a long while before I hit the 1 million mark haha, but I am really close to 300,000. But who's counting.
Olivia, you draw them very lightly at first, and then you carefully erase them away with a kneaded eraser shaped into a point. Using an eraser skillfully is just as important as using a pencil or charcoal skillfully.
All of the replies are pretty much spot on. Draw as lightly as possible, use a light pencil [4H, 2H, H, or HB], use a kneaded eraser with with care, etc. It's all just part of the process. I drew the lines dark in this video so you could see what was happening.
When you've been drawing faces on ur own without any guidance or school for a while and find out that you intuitively came to the same helping tool aka measuring that literally follows the theory I mean it's pretty obvious I guess
Thank you so much I have watched sooo many vids on how to yours is so well explained great stuff !! How do you sharpen your pencils please have a good day
When you say," I'm going to determine the width on my paper." 1) Are you picking any width size? 2) and then gauging the height based on the fact that it is higher than the width when compared? Sorry if this sounds stupid, but I'm new to this and any clarification would greatly help!
Yes any width size. Depends on how large you want your drawing to be. The larger the width (or height), the larger your drawing is going to be. Hope that makes sense. And yes I'm gauging the height size based on the fact that it is greater than the width :) You understand.
Or you could take your cell phone, snap a picture of the object, email it to your lap top. Then plug your computer to the TV with the HDMI cord and tape your paper over the screen, adjust the size relative to your paper and trace the image. I do this for everything. As a professional artist, time is of the essence. Sometimes I’m doing this 3-4 times a day. Artists get too caught up in being “authentic.” Get the job going using any tools possible that help you crunch time. It’s no different than using an eraser or a pencil sharpener or frisket masking film or masking fluid etc. They are all tools used to help produce the best composition in the end game.
sir i want to drawing realistic potrait but my reference is from phone which is much smaller than potrait do you hv any tips when transfer the propostion to paper?
i have a big problem with width. whenever i draw something i find that i have made it wider than it should be yet height seems to be ok (ish).. when i match things up to see how much i am out its a large margin. any ideas what i am doing wrong or what habit i have that i need to work towards correcting ?
method can still be used with a picture, for more accurate readings i recommend a proportional divider. It looks like a pair of chop sticks that are double sided pointy and held together in a (X) shape. They are adjustable and can be used for measuring different types of things, your picture included. Cost of one in my opinion doesn't matter as long as it works and holds its shape after tightening.
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Hi, I don't understand when you take the width that you have determined on the paper and then rotate the pencil vertically it to create a square how can you be sure that after rotating it the pencil hasn't moved from the original position?
@@mariocosentino3863 You should try to pinch your finger around the point of the pencil that maintains the measurement.
It's not often that i subscribe to a yt channel , but this video and the channel over all is of good quality , keep it up!
This is more helpful than spending 4 hours in my drawing class.
Exactly. Someones just dont wat to teach art, couse it base on talent they say. And theese people went teaching... I assume, to sabotage?....
ı cracked! hahahah yeah indeed!
Yare yare
lol I got shafted out of a drawing class
@@MultiTrollface999 is the reason because you, as they said on Impractical jokers, dry humped the sculptures?
i like how you managed to get straight to the point and only talk about the subject on hand. really informative and definitely helped me figure out how to not fuck up my proportions.
right!
the length of the lead on the pencil gives me anxiety
Its an academic thing..
It’s for if he wants to draw with an overhand grip, it’s common for fine artists to carve back their pencils to expose more lead :)
ender gaming yeah i just use a lead/charcoal holder bc ain’t nobody got time for whittling pencils
I opened the video to see a crazy weird pencil and the word "persimmon" and thought "Huh, so that's what art school does to people."
I bet its great practise for not pressing too hard down with your pencil.
learned something new
Guestimate
Glad to hear 😊
I’ve never even heard of the fruit he’s drawing...
@@ggtiket I had my first persimmon a few months ago, it was growing on my grandpa's farm
Thanks. I've been teaching myself to draw so I'll give this technique a try.
Sounds good, hope it goes well :)
Same with me 😂
Bro same, I’ve never watched art videos but now I want to try and be good
Holy... This what i need for a long time ago, i have been learning to draw but no improvement at all, thank you so much
No problem, more drawing basics and fundamentals to come :)
Been drawing by myself since I was a little kid. I'm 25 now and this video is super interesting to me because I have no freaking technique and wing everything lol but somehow it turns out nice probably just from spending so much time on it. Maybe I can finally incorporate such a technique as this into my process to make things easier and faster for me. ^^ Thank you dude
Glad to hear it!
I was the same, and was subconsciously using some comparative size/position techniques (I love doing portraits) - I know that eye's a bit low and can fix it by moving it up where the eye cavity is level with x and y - but watching a few videos like this (which I thought was great btw) made me so much quicker, formalised my thinking, and with extra ideas. In fact these sort of vids made me feel I wasn't unartistic, which I've felt at times, they made me feel like I was on the right line.
Incorporate it, it's so worth it! And look for other vids too around this subject. You'll be so much quicker and if you get frustrated or feel like it's busywork trying to get things in the right place, this sort of instruction is brilliant and lets you get on with the fun stuff.
if it would be possible, i deffinitely would be liked this 3 times already, You just solved a big problem of me. I had a serious fight against proportions and perspectives. Now I see more clearly.Thank you.
The same with me...I was taking measures deliberately in a way instinctive
Can i ask how are you doing with your art's
@@artsyabin8145 hi, I am struggling since but not as much as then. It is. a shame but I need a teacher, so this is my new mission. Wish me luck. :) Also I am learning a lot like compositions and line art. I am a bit shy about my art in this state but I definitely see the end of the struggle now, that I did not see before.
@@kyraakira7933 woah you replied so quick. Wish you all the best
Sir, so helpful because I stopped drawing from last 6 months and I found really hard to draw now.your tutorial help a lot to back on my drawings.
Thanks. This video shows me from where to start a drawing.
Thanks again.
Awesome 😎 have fun.
Here is a guesstimate proportioning trick that I discovered today, which helps with proportioning complex forms before you've started breaking them down: First pick out a few points on the outline of your reference that you can use as anchors. Guess where those points land on the page, then sketch "probing" lines that simply connect all of the points to each other. All of the points will be somewhat wrong at first, but what happens when you connect them is that the probing lines will start to reveal where the error is, because they'll form different angles than what you see in the reference - and then you can go back for a more confident second pass.
I've always struggled with proportion, but in a lot of cases, it comes down to a mix of using more reference and finding a way of constructing it that lets me calculate and subdivide with simpler, easier-to-estimate ratios.
Hi I’m really struggling with proportions and accuracy so this is great! However I use watercolours and often find myself left with visible sketch lines or mucky eraser marks as watercolour paints are very faint and transparent and of course I use the unpainted paper as highlights so pencil marks show through. How would you deal with this problem? Thanks!
I'm actually a watercolorist as well. But mostly landscapes so usually the sketch beforehand doesn't have to be that accurate - usually. What kind of subjects do you paint?
You have no idea how much the way you teach can resonate with someone
I never realized our ears lined up the way the do!! Itll be a lot easier for me to place them on figures now that I know this!
That Pencil tip looks like its going to break O.O
I think it’s so you draw lighter with a longer tip and that can be useful when sketching 🖤🖤🖤
It’s the fact that he doesn’t even have an eraser O.O
Thank you so much, finally someone who explains the one thing I couldn't figure out.. I DO feel kind of dumb cause now the solution seems obvious.. just make either height or width a fixed length but maaaan... this taught me more of what i wanted to know than my art classes. Sometimes it's those small things that make all the difference. So again, thank you!
100 drawing vids later about proportions and yours is by far the only true way to capture reality,not the formulaic and statuesque formula most others practice ,thanks
Thanks for the kind words! Glad it was helpful :)
Love that you give real-world, practical instruction. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
You are an amazing teacher! I’m so glad I’ve found you. Thank you for sharing your talent and knowledge.
Returning to drawing after over a decade of not, thank you for this, very helpful :)
This has to be the first time in my life that I searched for something and found *exactly* what I was looking for! This helps so much! Thanks!
Really glad to hear
Thanks. Looking forward to learning more about measurements and maybe relationships (?) between objects and interior perspectives. 😀 I still struggle with these things...So tired of trying to fix a wonky interior painting.
Yes going to do more on this. Do you mean interior as in buildings and such or interior just in terms of like a face and features inside of an object?
SchaeferArt I was referring to the interior of a room and the alignment of furniture, figures, floors, walls, corners...wrt receding lines, etc.
thank you for sharing! I am new to drawing and trying to be a self thought medical illustrator. ı am always out of proportions. thank you and really looking forward to more tutorials of all kind.
For someone who is trying to learn how to draw on their own from scratch, this is incredibly helpful and easy to interpret!
Awesome to hear
Wow I learned so much from this! I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. Thanks so much!
Great video, very helpful. Everything I know I've pretty much been self taught and would love a career in art. Your videos are very informative
Have fun 😊
I remember watching this video about a year and a half ago when I started to learn and didn't get the concept so much. What I know now though this video makes much more sense.
Thank you!
I wish I watched this two years ago, this video has provided a great help go me and will definitely use the advice.
Thank you!!!!
2:00- it’s happened to me in the past, it’s happened to all of us. Dude- bold of you to assume that I’ve drawn before, the best I’ve done is stick figures when I was in kindergarten and I haven’t drawn since. But tysm for your tutorial on perception. It’s helping me a lot rn
I cannot tell you how much this video and method improved my proportions. Thank you for sharing!
Glad it helped!
The block diagram really helped me.. Thanx
Glad to hear 😊
Ive struggled with proportions for the longest, thank you for this
You deserve more subs.
Thank you :) I don't really worry about the numbers. I just want to help the people that I already have!
Great video, taking it just a step further, couldn't you just use the Pythagorean theorem or simple Trigonometry to obtain a more precise rendering of the object whether it be larger or smaller?
I'm an artist, not a mathematician haha. No idea
Very useful information, please continue❤
Glad it was helpful :) Definitely more to come.
This is the hack i needed to feel progress in my art, thanks so much
Brandon, how would you go about measuring objects that are off in the distance?
What do you do if you don’t have an object you can easily hold? What center should I find, center of drawing, center of mass etc?
Thanks for this 6 seconds intro, right into the subject 😩👌
No problem, hope you enjoy it
Have been following you for sometime now. Really enjoy every bit of it. Just don't stop doing it. Thumbs up.
From first seconds I understood that video is good.and you have a akcent like Indian sadghuru, Ability to rose a people.
Thank you, very much appreciated! Hope you found the video helpful :) I like Sadhguru, he shares much wisdom.
Very useful and important video, thank you
Glad it was helpful :) Have fun!
Best explanation EVER! ❤️
Really helpful! Thank you. I watercolor but am a terrible sketcher; this gives me such a good starting point. Please keep posting!
Will do. Hope it goes well 😊
I love that you got into the useful information immediately.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was the most helpful video on this topic thanks
Thank you for this terrific explanation and method of maintaining proportions. Your videos are fantastic, and your work is extraordinary.
Great help! I've needed that video for years! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful :)
Thanks man for this tips! I love you work man! Congrats!
Thanks man! 😊
It was so useful video. Thanks Schaefer.
incredible explanation. thank you
who knew you could draw rounded shapes from straight lines. this is nuts
Haha I know right. I felt the same way when I first learned it too. And it's really the best way to do it - in my practice and opinion.
thanks for the important tips....I am wondering how you get your pencil sharpened like that? do you use an electrical sharpener...?
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thanks a lot!!!
it really helps me improve faster!!!
Very helpful video. I'm definitely going to have to try that about keeping the width or height the same. My drawings always seem to get smaller the longer I work them.
Haha I know what you mean, it happens to us all :) Mine get larger sometimes but I do try to stick to this method and I find it helpful too. Things don't always go as planned though, so it takes a lot of practice to get used to it.
Honestly, that was very well explained sir. A good deal of videos I watched often diverge off topic.
Glad to hear
This is so helpful. i can even take help from your videos for any entrance exams!!!!!
Awesome :)
Awesome video Brandon! I've been following your channel for a couple years and doing art for about that long, but I learned something with this video. Keep it up man, Hope to see you hit that million sub mark!
Glad to hear :) I'm going to be focusing more on the basics and fundamentals for a while because it seems it would help a lot of folks out. I think it'll be a long while before I hit the 1 million mark haha, but I am really close to 300,000. But who's counting.
Thank you for the tips. It helps me a lot
Glad to hear :) More to come.
Again , Thank you ! You’re the best teacher ever !
Wow, thank you!
Question, how to you get rid of the guide lines you use to determine the size of something without erasing your work? I'm new to drawing.
Olivia McPherson the guidelines should be as light as possible so they're almost invisible when you're adding the details
I use 2H to make the lines
Olivia, you draw them very lightly at first, and then you carefully erase them away with a kneaded eraser shaped into a point. Using an eraser skillfully is just as important as using a pencil or charcoal skillfully.
All of the replies are pretty much spot on. Draw as lightly as possible, use a light pencil [4H, 2H, H, or HB], use a kneaded eraser with with care, etc. It's all just part of the process. I drew the lines dark in this video so you could see what was happening.
Thank you, very helpful tips. However I didn't understand how the diagonal line related to your picture.
*Your pencil is sharper than my future*
When you've been drawing faces on ur own without any guidance or school for a while and find out that you intuitively came to the same helping tool aka measuring that literally follows the theory
I mean it's pretty obvious I guess
Thank you so much I have watched sooo many vids on how to yours is so well explained great stuff !! How do you sharpen your pencils please have a good day
Is it worth it to actually measure the object in certain cases and create proportions either larger or smaller, or does no one do that?
Thanks for all your videos, inspirational, motivating. Much love
Oh boy time to learn art In quarantine
Thank you this is very helpful i was having some trouble understanding this but you helped me
When you say," I'm going to determine the width on my paper." 1) Are you picking any width size? 2) and then gauging the height based on the fact that it is higher than the width when compared?
Sorry if this sounds stupid, but I'm new to this and any clarification would greatly help!
Yes any width size. Depends on how large you want your drawing to be. The larger the width (or height), the larger your drawing is going to be. Hope that makes sense. And yes I'm gauging the height size based on the fact that it is greater than the width :) You understand.
@@SchaeferArt thanks 😊
Its too good for beginner artist
Too difficult?
Very nicely done Brando.
😎 thank you!
Or you could take your cell phone, snap a picture of the object, email it to your lap top. Then plug your computer to the TV with the HDMI cord and tape your paper over the screen, adjust the size relative to your paper and trace the image. I do this for everything. As a professional artist, time is of the essence. Sometimes I’m doing this 3-4 times a day. Artists get too caught up in being “authentic.” Get the job going using any tools possible that help you crunch time. It’s no different than using an eraser or a pencil sharpener or frisket masking film or masking fluid etc. They are all tools used to help produce the best composition in the end game.
“This isn’t a tutorial video for drawing a persimmon” 😂😂 You are a funny guy, take this like
:) hehe
Thank you! Your video is really good!
do you have a video on comparitve measuring using this technique on portraits?
I don't believe I do yet. But it's the same principles, no matter what you're drawing.
Terrific tutorial. Very beneficial technique, especially for portraits. Thanks for posting.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much. This video was very helpful, and I appreciate it so much.
Thanks!! hope you do more tutorials
Plan on it, a lot more to come :)
Thank you for the help
Keep doing more tutorials, good video keep it up!
Tutorials are going to be my main focus from now on, at least for the next few months. A lot more on basics and fundamentals coming :)
Excellent! Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Man, I love your videos! You are a great teacher... please keep it up, hope I will manage to be half as good as you :)
Just takes practice and time :) You'll get there. Just keep pushing yourself.
This surely would help but what really gonna get you there is practice !!!
Great work. You can tell that this is a great video when you like ratio is what it is. 97.4% likes. Pretty great.
Thank you, much appreciated :)
Beautiful and information video
Thanks for watching
Thanks! This really helped.
Glad to hear!
Thank you this was helpful
Glad to hear 😊 no problem.
ive been struggling with proportions so much and this video really helped me! cant wait to start using this technique. thank you so much for this :D
So glad to hear this. Enjoy :)
great lesson! you are a brilliant teacher, thank you for sharing your wisdom :)
Have you read Sherrie McGraw's book on "The Language of Drawing"?
Nope
Thankyou so much ! This is a very helpful video
sir i want to drawing realistic potrait but my reference is from phone which is much smaller than potrait do you hv any tips when transfer the propostion to paper?
i have a big problem with width. whenever i draw something i find that i have made it wider than it should be yet height seems to be ok (ish).. when i match things up to see how much i am out its a large margin. any ideas what i am doing wrong or what habit i have that i need to work towards correcting ?
Where do I acquire one of these adamantium leaded pencils?
So helpful! Thank you.
No problem 😊
What if you’re looking at a picture ?
method can still be used with a picture, for more accurate readings i recommend a proportional divider. It looks like a pair of chop sticks that are double sided pointy and held together in a (X) shape. They are adjustable and can be used for measuring different types of things, your picture included.
Cost of one in my opinion doesn't matter as long as it works and holds its shape after tightening.
Thanks so much for the thorough video-I just subbed! 😁💖
Thanks for subbing! Much appreciated :)
Thank you. Good simple exercise.
Glad to hear :) No problem.
5:29 why does it look like he's gonna draw an anime character??