Secret Techniques for Super Accurate Measuring

Learn secret techniques for super accurate measuring in drawing! These tips will help you improve your proportions and create more realistic artwork.
Are you a beginner artist struggling with accurate measurements in your artwork? In this video, we dive into the "Sight Size Method", a powerful technique designed to help you measure accurately and improve your drawing skills! Join us as we break down this method step-by-step, making it easy for new students to grasp. You'll learn how to use your pencil and eye to measure proportions correctly, ensuring your artwork looks more realistic and well-composed. In this tutorial, we'll cover:
The basics of the Sight Size Method
Essential tools and materials you'll need
Common mistakes to avoid when measuring
Tips to practice and refine your skills.
Whether you're working from a live model or a reference photo, mastering the Sight Size Method will enhance your artistic journey. Don't miss out on this essential skill that every aspiring artist should learn!

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Carey brings over 40 years of experience as a fine artist, graphics designer, photographer, multi-media developer, and teacher. Her drawings and paintings have won international awards. She has been the lead concept artist and developed over one hundred online courses.

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Nitram Charcoal Sticks:
Charcoal holders

Paper:

Wood panels for stretching paper

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Paint Brushes

Paint Mediums Acrylic

Erasers

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[jazmarz]

This was a great demo!!! I never really understood how this worked during my first year of basic drawing and my results proved it. After several years and lots of videos, I was making it more complex than it should have been. This looks achievable. Thank you.

[petehotoff]

I wish I watched this video decades ago!
Many thanks for sharing ❤❤❤

[grammiejones]

Love the video. This is how I do my portraits when I do them. I'm old enough that I don't remember who taught me how to do this, it must have been an art teacher somewhere long ago. I find this is the most accurate way to draw a protrait. I found that tracing and grids are not at all accurate, it's easy enough to prove when you look at protraits created with grids and tracing, there is something always really off. Thank you for creating this video to artists wanting to learn a better way.

[djalals.moharrer]

Superb technique ❗️💗 I am an Oldy-Goldy 68 years Iranian photographer in Berlin Germany who grew up in the analogue photography with large format studio camera, recently I turned my art style from Fine Art to oscillate style between photo and painting. I am sure that my new founded style is looking very much promising and I surprised many artists friends of mein so far too! Thanks so lot for your highly thoughtful lecture and simplification the core of measuring techniques ❗️💗🫡✊👏🙏🙏✊ many greetings ❗️

[CookieZ]

Love it! I have been a big fan of the grid system. But all of those squares can make it difficult for my eyes sometimes. I like your method.

[pejoly]

Thank you for such a clearly articulated explanation. This video is true art.

[Sueat]

❤ love the way you edited the song with the crafting at the end. Dephemerember is my equivalent of opening the doors of an advent calendar when I was a child. Love you guys!❤

[patviera]

Great technique, I use proportional dividers

[FreeSpokenOne]

What an amazing teacher! Everything is so well described in detail. Thank you for sharing your process with us.

[nightynightshade]

I’m amazed by your patience with the ignorant comments! None of them use their common sense! Thank you for a wonderful and easy to understand tutorial! This is exactly what I needed to replicate a photo of my muse! I totally subscribed!
(Sorry in advance for the comment I’ll be posting next addressing those people I mentioned)
Sending love! ❤

[AngelaJulbe-Saca]

Interesting love your art techniques appreciate you. I have to practice more and get a sample picture to follow.

[yurivictorial]

It's really interesting! I tried it and amazing! 🙌🏻 Thanks for making the video!

[pierosavino]

❤ thank you. Teacher you droop down from rhe skies to me. I have to improve my skills on this part of a good level figurative painting. I am so greatfull. Piero Brasil.❤

[dM-ijwe]

Thank you. Always wondered what the hell was going on with the extended arm and paint brush. Very helpful.

[smallbones]

You're a fantastic teacher! Thank you

[peterastor]

Might I suggest the 2-point technique for angled lines that have proven successful in more than just portraits. Mark the two endpoints of the angled line on the reference and find their distances from both the horizontal and vertical grid lines. Plot them on your paper much as you did graphing coordinates when in high school. Your crossing grid lines serve as coordinate axes and their crossing point is the origin. You can connect the plotted points with a straight line or an arc. If you want to check your arc, simply get the distance between the origin and the furthest point of the arc, and place that point on your drawing.

[lbrowning]

I will try this. I was taught to use an acetate grid taped on the reference portrait. You can still use a measuring stick, but you also can focus on what you see in each box.

[LuizQ]

Amaaazing! Thak you very much! Now you have a student from Brazil 😊

[augustasilvis]

Thank u for that great help that will help to motivate me wonderful!!!!