Wonky Proportions? Use Your Pencil!

Wonky proportions? Fix it with the tool you already have in your hand!
When drawing from a reference, photo or live model, you can keep accurate proportions with this technique. This gives you a strong foundation to then exaggerate or render further.

Watch the new fully YouTube-approved version of my measuring video and fix those bad proportions today!

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[Aesthetic]

I've seen this in my gesture class and never knew what it was for till today

[houndgirl]

My 2nd drawing professor showed us this when we did deep dive anatomy studies. I don't really draw from life anymore, but it is a helpful tool/ thing to keep in mind. Proportions are incredibly important especially when it comes to stylized characters ^^

[Ajia_No_Envy]

I never knew how this worked at all so I just thought people were insane lmao

[hidden_kat]

Ohhhh, I was just kinda doing it to look cool and then winging it. Explains alot.

[Notasimp-ifgs]

We must stay focused brother's, we must stay focus

[julyol]

What helped me a lot at getting better at proportions was to compare the negative spaces I was creating with the ones in the reference. It's like my brain tries to "fix" proportions of well known shapes, which makes it hard to just look at something and copy it realistically. But the negative spaces are "new" and my brain doesn't have a specific shape or form it thinks the negative space "should" have. So it actually lets me see it the way it actually looks. Which in turn makes comparing and copying easier. So when I look at my drawing and the negative spaces are wonky, I know the positive ones are as well. I fix the negative space and then adjust the rest of the drawing.

[flying__pierog]

Accurate! We use it in an art school actually, and I'm happy that more people can know about it cause damn, that's really useful! :D

[Ba_ben]

Im definitely listening to the whole video and not getting distracted from that cake 😍😍😍

[red]

this is extremely useful, I saw a tutorial of this like a year ago and my accuracy on my drawings immediately improved

[FunTimesOfBoredom]

"When drawing from a-"
*pauses*
THAT CAKE!

[ghosttidragon]

Wait so that's how you do it! I always just find similar parts like you noticed at the end and eyeball spacing for everything to get it decently accurate

[beans]

Was taught this in a life drawing class not too long ago, but I’d forgotten the head tilt! Thank you so much!!

[ameliabrittain]

Fr, took a figure drawing class and it blew my mind. Sighting is tricky at first, but it’s so incredibly useful.

[leathersandwich]

MANY THANKS!! I've always known that this is foe measurement but never knew of what and on what they based on. Again many many thanks.

[itsthegrmatt]

I'm so glad I work digitally. It's so much easier with transform and liquify tools.

[alyaamaher]

I needed this video about 5 years ago, it's good to hear it out loud now, but back then, I was flying by my seat and I passed with well grades miraculously.
But seriously, thank you for shooting it.

[HermunthrudaWaldheim]

Ingenious! I knew, I was doing it wrong.
I literally love love love you!!!

[jonnerzyt]

Drawing 1 professor showed this to us when we were learning perspective. She said you can use any measurement you want and that it is just to help scale stuff up and down. I have 2 marks on my pencils that I use as a base for measurements

[Shinji]

Thank you so much, I saw that in class, but the teacher never been as clear as you. I didn't understand, but now I do because if your video thank you 😃

[dyscea]

The actual model looks weird but translates FANTASTICALLY in sketch 😂