That Measuring Thing Artists Do With Their Pencil

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  • Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
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  • @KillerMoth_Stumpy
    @KillerMoth_Stumpy Год назад +429

    I've been drawing self-taught for my whole life, and I never understood why people do that or what it's for, thanks lol

    • @ProkoTV
      @ProkoTV  Год назад +58

      Happy to help!

  • @CataRDJ
    @CataRDJ Год назад +56

    The bleep caught me off guard 😂

  • @yellow_jacket3260
    @yellow_jacket3260 Год назад +23

    From my own experience as a intermediate artist, its good to find balance between going by memory and using techniques like these to understand your model. Doing too much measuring is just going to be a pain to do, but just eyeballing it all the time could lead to glaring inaccuracies

    • @katm8128
      @katm8128 Год назад +7

      I think it’s a good idea to do a lot of measuring early on. Doing so helped me develop my observational skills enough to where I can now eyeball most of the time down the line

  • @normalperson8723
    @normalperson8723 Год назад +230

    i actually didnt realise this was a real technique i thought it was just a movie thing 😶

    • @katm8128
      @katm8128 Год назад +31

      Very useful technique for traditional art! Doing this regularly early on in my art journey helped me developed my observational eye enough to where I can safely eyeball most things now

  • @mysugah
    @mysugah Год назад +66

    My thumb now has a splinter, but I am grateful for this gem of a short

    • @3polygons
      @3polygons Год назад +8

      Art is always joy and tears...

  • @rutikkadam8192
    @rutikkadam8192 Год назад +10

    I had a teacher in school who told me this while I was learning to draw, such a solid technique.

  • @RSA-zv9hd
    @RSA-zv9hd Год назад +8

    I find marking the reference points on paper challenging, but this helps me to understand how to do it. 😅😊

  • @carrot6286
    @carrot6286 Год назад +3

    The measuring technique is what inspired Jorge Jimenez to dropkick that sh*t and double down on comics and drawing what he loved in his own way ❤

  • @simple__sigma3287
    @simple__sigma3287 Год назад +1

    I'm happy my art teacher explained this to us on class

  • @artwheel2140
    @artwheel2140 Год назад +18

    I really wanted to know this! Thank you so much ❤

  • @knowledgejunction4985
    @knowledgejunction4985 Год назад +4

    Today i actually understood how to measure. Thanks for the help.

  • @musamutale422
    @musamutale422 Год назад +41

    😂😂😂 such is the life of an artist

  • @nondumbgd
    @nondumbgd Год назад +1

    Wow, I never knew that. Thank you. You are one of the best art youtubers.

  • @vishalanil5856
    @vishalanil5856 Год назад +2

    Jesse pinkman when looked by 2 point perspective ❤🔥

  • @3polygons
    @3polygons Год назад +4

    ...and at some point this is substituted (maybe using this to check when something "feels" wrong) by sth much more instinctive, intuitive. Ending up not measuring it, as the brain starts somehow doing it by itself. But it's only possible if you started doing all these things, measuring everything with everything (with the pencil or using other ways). Greeks 2k or 2.500 years+ ago would compare even one finger with any other parts of the body. (why I feel some incoming joke here...)

    • @katm8128
      @katm8128 Год назад +1

      Yes. I used this technique a lot early on in my journey and now I can go without it most of the time

  • @HappyBlueLake-mq9dx
    @HappyBlueLake-mq9dx Месяц назад

    Thank you very much sir

  • @smokelikeahippi4538
    @smokelikeahippi4538 Год назад +2

    This is a tool to use, but there’s inconsistencies with this when doing it. I’m self taught and I’ve never resorted to this. I always make a vanishing point or imagine a vanishing point and build my character from that. Even when studying another persons work I tend to try and find a point where a lot of the body lines up. I’m not knocking this technique, I’m just saying use it as a tool if you are having trouble, but really try to find out how the artist themselves constructed their drawing and try to learn from it

  • @vitowidjojo7038
    @vitowidjojo7038 Год назад +5

    How did it align THERE???
    That's very coincidental...

    • @3polygons
      @3polygons Год назад +2

      The crotch is the center of the universe... It makes you think.

    • @flache_ziege
      @flache_ziege Год назад

      @@3polygonsayo?

  • @voice_0f_reason
    @voice_0f_reason Год назад

    I use a separate sighting stick when I draw. Just a crochet needle. What's the difference between sighting and measuring again?

  • @ThePieOfTheUnknown
    @ThePieOfTheUnknown Год назад +2

    Woah that's cool
    ye i'll never do that lmao

  • @-min-Language
    @-min-Language Год назад

    pls give a video of you how to drawing

  • @Fr0stbite1801
    @Fr0stbite1801 Год назад +1

    I got taught how to do this and I just don't like how it also requires the drawing surface to be upright. I don't got the money nor space for an easel, unfortunately

  • @mjlpbn
    @mjlpbn Год назад +1

    Honestly I came here for the drawing tip... But also to see your handsome being and existence 😂😏🤪

  • @kaidraw333
    @kaidraw333 Год назад

    He is the best ❤

  • @JJ4955-n6d
    @JJ4955-n6d Год назад +1

    Why do you remind me of jesse from breaking bad. Did you move to Alaska and get an alias? I mean, Jesse used to draw and you do draw now so proko exposed? Why did you stop cooking. The crystal candy is amazing! Keep up the good work.

  • @footballgoal7661
    @footballgoal7661 Год назад

    ART is also a Science 👌

  • @VirKitt
    @VirKitt Год назад

    Nobody gonna talk about how dude's pencil tip grew longer??

  • @SOAD861
    @SOAD861 Год назад

    What about on a paper? U cant lock out ur arm when the paper is that close to u

    • @ProkoTV
      @ProkoTV  Год назад +1

      You use this measuring technique when drawing from a reference. You'll hold your hand up and get a measurement, then reach down to your paper to make your marks and lines.
      We have a longer video on this technique:
      ruclips.net/video/tZtnKp4fAPk/видео.html

  • @thalapnadaniel6130
    @thalapnadaniel6130 Год назад

    wont the length of the pencil tip change as you draw?

    • @katm8128
      @katm8128 Год назад +1

      You can do this with any kind of stick or straight object

    • @sw-gz9ps
      @sw-gz9ps Год назад +1

      you are using your thumb to indicate the length. If the pencil is more blunt, then your thumb would simply be further down. The point is to have a frame of reference, In this case the head. You use the pencil and your thumb to measure the head, and then relate it to the rest of the figure. The size of the head (or any other frame of reference) dosnt change.

  • @icreatesomethin3835
    @icreatesomethin3835 Год назад +1

    I really thought that those moves was for show off

  • @Benja944
    @Benja944 Год назад +1

    Assuming we all have good eyesight😢

  • @johnedraisa
    @johnedraisa Год назад

    I always thoughts this was just a meme thing that people said etc, didnt know it was actually used for measuring

  • @jei-el2139
    @jei-el2139 Год назад

    At first I thought you were drawing Otzi 😅

  • @mr.insufferable1318
    @mr.insufferable1318 Год назад +1

    In between is another 999 wrong measurements

  • @Ziggyzaggy300
    @Ziggyzaggy300 Год назад +1

    I did not read that as pencil...

  • @otistically
    @otistically Год назад

    the groin

  • @ducksoff7236
    @ducksoff7236 Год назад

    Great info.....short format is terrible in general

  • @shuvoDhar.5537
    @shuvoDhar.5537 Год назад

    ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @3polygons
    @3polygons Год назад +2

    7,5 or 8 heads in a usual adult male body, 9 for a way too tall dude or "heroic" proportions. I blame the ancient Greeks for that. But remember: the head's size is not what is important, but how you use it.

  • @SpookedLol
    @SpookedLol Год назад +4

    👇🏼 I just wanted to remind you in that video where are you said there’s so many people who draw here wrong there is no right or wrong way to draw anything😂

    • @AIIuminium
      @AIIuminium Год назад +2

      He mostly talks about realism so I think he meant that

    • @3polygons
      @3polygons Год назад

      @@AIIuminium Indeed, even to later on develop a non realistic style, all the academic base serves for a better "version" of reality, no matter how imaginative it gets.

  • @Saki.3939
    @Saki.3939 Год назад

    I learned this from blue period anime lol get better dudes

  • @romedog
    @romedog Год назад

    Unsubscribe not kid friendly