How to Get Better at Drawing Portraits
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- Опубликовано: 16 мар 2024
- If you draw portraits, you're probably looking for ways that you might improve. This video suggests 5 ideas that will improve your skills by changing the way you practice and the way you think about portrait drawing in general. If you have any questions, just leave them in the comments below and I will do my best to answer them. Thanks for watching!
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I’m a retired illustrator and graphic artist. For well over 30 years, I did art to meet the needs of my clients, and I did very well. After retiring, I have struggled trying to get back to the joy I had as a kid doing art for fun. For me, it’s like starting over learning new skills. Your advice is definitely helpful. Sometimes you need someone to remind you of the basics and to try a different philosophy from time to time.
Thanks Loren, I worked in the printing industry (prepress) for many years. Taking up drawing again after years of mostly digital work was like a revelation for me. I wish you all the best with your drawings!
That's the problem with a lot of adults...they don't like to do the things they once did as a child. I never lost that feeling of being a kid
Jeff, I love to draw and have shifted my focus at different times from the figure, to faces, to buildings and environments, and landscapes sometimes. I have to say, that faces are very elusive and require the most time to regain facility. I can construct buildings and spaces, but to get a true likeness seems to be 80% frequent practice and 20% alchemy. Thanks for posting this; it’s quite inspiring to me.
Sage advice. As the Chinese say, there are many paths to the top of the mountain. As someone who's struggling in the foothills I always value the guidance given by those who are capable of the kind of quality portraits you post here.
Thanks so much for the poetic comment, love that!
Nice
As a fellow traveller stumbling towards Base camp I really appreciate your comment and this great encouraging video. Thanks to both of you for posting
this was great! i love that your advice on the best approach is simply to pick the one that works for you
Thanks so much! Love your channel!
I love that endinh part...drswing is really subjective
This is my first comment on RUclips ever... but I saw your first videos two years ago... I copied every one of your pictures in charcoal... you draw people's souls. I learned that from you... when I draw I'm scared, but I learned from you how to capture the soul... I rarely show my pictures but when I do, people are amazed, thanks to you... thank you very much again
Thanks so much for commenting. I really love hearing things like this. I wish you the best with your drawing.
As an old school Parsons student, I'm 56 now, I wish you could have been my teacher... what you said in this one video rang so true for me... THANK YOU SIR
and a hello from Central Mexico...
Hello and thanks you! Very kind of you to say.
5:11 is great advice. As a child I was discouraged from drawing because I was drawing from references that I really liked a lot, but friends and family simply saw it as "copying". I cannot stress this enough, a healthy practice from references are invaluable. Art professionals in the animation, and game industry are prime examples that working with references never stop being one of the many tools in your toolbelt. Furthermore, drawing from a reference, still life, and/or from Life will continuously build an artist's "visual library", thus giving you increasing familiarity and understand with shape, form, structure, proportionality, how light interacts with the subject, and three dimensionality.
Thanks for commenting! I agree with you. :)
Some of my greatest leaps in progress were from a specific artist, 30 days straight or less.
3:28 is like a trap, I've been told to do this specific thing. What nobody told me is proportions can change, there are a lot of parameters that can be changed in the facial structure.
I very much agree on your opinions.
You're very correct. I've been following the advice "The nose is always the middle third of the face" until I looked in the mirror and realized that was a lie. took me a while to notice
@@vaukest5888 proko? I read the head and hands book of loomis and rewatched proko's oldest head vid. Loomis never indicated a 2/3 measurements and relationship.
And it took me 5 years to realize and break out of that fixed proportion thing.
@@vaukest5888l knew this was a lie by observation.People with big foreheads has slightly bigger heads and l suppose their proportions vary slightly. Some people have a small cranium no matter the race and young black boys have bigger craniums. People like my brother's cranium is not completely circular but has a heart like curve at the back.
Have any of you even bothered to _read_ Loomis' book? He SPECIFICALLY says that proportions vary between people. He _encourages_ you to look for the proportions. He offers his method as a guideline, and says so specifically lol.
@@dpelpal yes.
Jeff you are a talented artist and teacher. So glad I came across this video. Your advice to focus on quantity and structure/construction certainly seems to ring true.
Really good advice. More important than the sketches shown. Listen, think and then draw. And draw, and draw, and draw, and draw.
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Great, great job. I’m a fine art portrait drawer and you definitely hit the nail on the head all around
ASMR voice says wise things that help me relax about my weird methods. Thank you!
Haha, thanks so much! I usually see weird as a positive thing. Keep going weirdo.
This is the video I needed at this time of me doubting my art journey. Solid advice, not sugarcoating it, straight to the point and informative. Thank u so much for this. The part where u said that some people or artist take offense in u learning and drawing from reference is true. Most if not all veteran or professional artists would tell you to draw from reference and it's often times the amateurs or people who have no idea how drawing works and put it on to "talent" that says otherwise.
Thank you for commenting! Happy that you're getting something from the videos that you find useful!
You actually made my drawings better,even tho I have been doing portraits for as long as I can remember
I always try to do things in different ways just to learn more
Thanks for everything you do
Thank you Michael, I appreciate your comments :)
I'm very grateful for this man's advice, and hard work.
I agree and appreciate all your instructions. Very good!
What a great points. Thank you for sharing your experience.
I can sit and listen to you all day.
Best kind of informative video Jeff! Thanks!
Thank you Jeff for making this video. Much good advice and information.
I'm told that I am far too critical of my work. I don't fish for compliments. I just see what can be better with practice and when I get it right I am the first person to say that I love it.
Thank you Jeff!
Great advices, thank you so much
thank you for your work sir.
Much needed words, thanks a lot.💖
Thank you for posting this, Jeff! It is very helpful and inspiring!
Glad you liked it Gio!
Jeff, really thank you man about the advices, your work is sooo nice, your portraits so unique..keep us learning with the right way mate!
Happy that you liked it!
Excellent advice....thank you.
Thank you, thank you!!! Everything you said is true. Best for me, thinking that there's a specific way/rule to drawing/painting. I searched so hard and and I tried to copy every one else, and in the process I forgot myself. It's my way, my painting, my look at the world!
Thank you kindly
Glad that you liked it!
Thank you very much for the advice. Everything you said is all great advice, to me it was about not spend too much time with details especially when practicing. Thanks
Great video! Thanks for sharing your wisdom.
Thank you. Very good advice.
Thank you for a splendid video.
very helpful, very true. Thankyou
wow, I love that head construction between 3:09 and 4:00, so quick and so effective!
Awesome, quick guide!
Thank you for this.
Thank you for this helpful video.
Wow, Jeff your advice is spot on and pure gold. The quantity over quality, was especially insightful. This was the first time I enjoyed one of your videos, but you caught a devoted follower all the same. Thank you !
Thank you Kim! Welcome to the channel.
This video was really motivating and I agreed with everything you said. I feel like I have learned my methods through watching videos and taking parts of other artists methods and combining ones that worked for me, such as the loomis method and measurements for the face. Now I’m working on preserving gesture as I know that’s my current problem area. Thanks for sharing! 👍🏻💯
Hi, GREAT video,and goooood narration. Thanks signed Jim
golden advice here Jeff!
This is great a masterpiece. Thanks for sharing!
Great video! I’m getting back into drawing after not doing it consistently for a decade. I’m trying to start with the basics & work on fundamentals. I draw regularly but I’m guilty of trying to to complete things & spending too much time rendering. I need to work on structure a lot more.
Really excellent advice.
Thank you. Very encouraging
Thank you! I will put into practice your suggestions!
Check my art broo
I really like your teaching style. Your explanations are excellent.
Good points for portrait drawings.
This video is an absolute masterpiece. Beautiful drawings, beautiful advice. Thank you for this.
Thanks so much! Glad you liked it.
Thank you for sharing your opinion !
Ohmahgod Im inlove with your Art, AMAZINGG.
Love your videos Jeff and I find this one to be one of the best. Golden advices to the aspiring portrait artists 🧑🎨 thank you for sharing your wisdom and expertise 🙏 ❤
Thanks! Happy that you liked it :)
Jeff, I follow you on your Facebook page and have benefitted from the drawings posted. Charcoal at first intimidated me because of the dustiness plus getting the lifelikeness proportion and value being issues I struggled with, my artwork wasn't pleasing. So I am happy for your knowledge and for sharing with us vital techniques to get better results. Thank you, Mr. Haines
Hey Kevin! Good to see you here and thanks for your comments!
I just found you and subscribed; love the use of the phrase/point "healthy dissatisfaction" (re all one's previous work). I will be working with overwhelmingly organic forms, mainly animals, but bringing in effective figures with true likenesses is a plus, for all that formal human portraiture was never studied - thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!!
I like your opinion and it ran true to me. Thank you!
excellent video. I really appreciate the runtime of your videos btw. Very wise formatting decision.
Makes a lot of sense
Very good videos your portraits are distinct in style.
Awesome thanks
I'd like to try it. Subscribed
WOW thankyou.
merci beaucouppour cette brillante explication j'adore votre art👍👍👍👍
You're very welcome, thank you for watching!
This helped alot !! totally agree sir! 👍your work is beautiful !
Thanks so much! Glad it helped.
GREAT wisdom here, every artist needs to hear this. Actually, every person needs to hear it.
Thank you David!
There is so much I like about this video
Very helpful. Thank you!
Glad you find it helpful!
So helpful advices..❤️
Thank you
You're very honest and I appreciate you and your video.
Thanks so much, I appreciate that.
@@JeffHainesArt you're very welcome.
This video was totally golden for me!! Thank you for these tips. It’s time for me to go back to practicing portraits again. This was a very inspiring video for me.👏👏👏
I love hearing that! Good luck Karen!
Good info thanks
Your art is wow
From syria
Greetings Jeff - wanted to say thanks so much for uploading these videos. Your work is a real inspiration to someone like myself that used to enjoy art as a kid and now returning to it many years later just for the enjoyment, and challenge of it. So cool! Please consider making more tutorials or commentary vids they are so immensely helpful! If you had a course for sale I'd buy it in a heartbeat (I'm sure I'm not the only one). Thanks for sharing your work and your thoughts, looking forward to more.
Thanks so much! Glad tat you enjoy them :)
Great video and very concise. So many good statements under advice.
Btw! I could listen to you voice for hours. 😊
Thanks Stefan! Glad you liked it :)
I value your opinion, and you've won a subscription. Beautiful drawings, all of them.
Thanks so much! Welcome!
great ideas! Subscribed.
this man is so wise
I love it❤
Thats VERY GOOD advice to go MANY incomplete to the last detail portraits.
I will make it my goal 2024.
thanks
Thanks! and good luck with your drawings!
thank you.
This is a fantastic video! The drawings are exquisite throughout too.
Thanks! Glad you liked it.
Awesome advice. New sub.
Thanks
Oh waw you got a deep voice..🤩
Great video!
Excellent advice; to work more on the quick studies then trying to do complete portraits when starting off. Thanks!
Thanks you! and good luck to you.
I respect you
I'm really glad I watched this particular video. All of your points are valuable, but the quantity over quality exercise is probably something I need to do. Thanks for posting this, and keep posting!
Often, not wanting to get deeply involved in a finished work of art ,
I meant to say was I find an image on line, glance at the clock and say to myself, ,' you have 30 minutes to look as intensively as you can to get a fair likeness ' and sometimes the outcome is not so bad and can be rewarding
Like many others, I’m getting back to drawing that I enjoyed when I was a kid. This video is very helpful and inspiring. Thanks.
I've always like to draw....
I'm a kid again 😄
Interesting vedio it is true for example I been using the Loomis method or the oval or the cross method so many of them but I made it easy to understand it making it my way, for example the Loomis method can be changed in son many ways even Loomis him self you can tell from his sketch es he does draw in different ways he did not only use the ball method or dividing the ball he does all kinds of alternative s
How does one know in a drawing demonstration that a device like the Camera Lucida app or the Da Vinci Eye app is or is not being used? I believe recording in time lapse is an indication. Also the camera seemingly is between the artist’s eye and hand. Never making a mistake while drawing is an apparent indication, too.
Thank you, this video was very helpful. I’ve just subscribed.
Glad you liked it! Welcome!
Your voice very soothing and the content reassuring I’m a rank amateur, but loving it
Thanks so much!
Great video Jeff
Thanks Simon!
Great advice! straight to the point and very practical. I once attended an atelier school where student spend months working on perfecting a painting. I completely agreed with you take that it is more beneficial to paint more less perfect painting and working on only one perfect painting. Needles to say, I quickly quit the atelier and paint daily on my own.
Think of it as necessary and unnecessary. Very quick, timed sketches of just a few minutes is a good exercise in recognizing what’s necessary. Good luck!
First time seeing your videos. I gotta say, what an awesome voice you have! 😮
It reminds me of the old radio voices of the 1920s! Subscribing for that and the art! XD
Haha, Thanks! Welcome to the channel!
thanks