How to measure Proportions in urban sketching

Getting the proportions right is one of the most essential aspects of sketching. Yet, many artists struggle with it. It takes a lot of practice to train your eyes and draw proportions correctly without measuring them.

In this tutorial, I show you how to measure and draw the proportions of a tree. You can also use this technique for buildings and any other objects in your urban sketches, not only for trees.

Let me know in the comments if this video helped you improve your drawings!

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This short step-by-step tutorial is great for beginning artists. You will learn how to draw a column with a pencil and how to add shadows to it.

Thank you for watching! If you have any questions or suggestions (maybe something you want me to draw in one of my next videos?), please, leave a comment below the video. And don't forget to smash that thumbs up and subscribe for more to come.
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I am Julia Henze, an art teacher and urban sketcher, founder of Brave Brushes Studio.

I help amateur artists learn the basics of sketching: proportions, composition, perspective, lines and textures, drawing and painting techniques, and different sketching mediums (gouache, watercolors, colored pencils and alcohol-based markers).

Brave Brushes Studio is my membership for those who love sketching and want to become confident and independent artists. Weekly video lessons + a supportive community = your roadmap to success.
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[annemarieslotboom]

It looks so simple and it really is! Practiced and my tree is the right size!!

[cesarvides]

Great tutorial. Very direct and helpful. Thank you. I was wondering if you had a video explaining how to scale correctly? I have the problem of either drawing too small or (mostly) drawing to large and my compositions don't fit the page correctly.

[stephantoth]

how do you do when the drawing is half size of the picture ? or double size ? or 1, 85 size ?