Exercises that TRANSFORMED my Portrait Drawing
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- When I got back to drawing two years ago, my portrait drawings lacked structure, depth, and art style, and getting them to look somewhat believable was a long and often frustrating process.
Recently, I have been practicing a lot and just exploring different exercises to improve my portrait drawing skills, and in this video, I share 6 of my favorite exercises that have improved my ability to draw consistently better faces as a beginner over the last couple of years.
🕗 Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:59 Exercise 1: Drawing sculptures
02:59 Exercise 2: The Bargue method
05:00 Exercise 3: Skull practice
05:49 Exercise 4: The Loomis head
07:03 Exercise 5: The Bridgman head cube
08:10 Exercise 6: Master studies
📂 Free resources that can help you learn and practice these portrait drawing exercises:
• My favorite sculpture references on Pinterest / sculpture-drawing-refe...
• Digital scans of the Bargue plates that are in public domain www.pinterest.com/search/pins...
• Proko’s tutorial on the Loomis Method • Quickly Draw Heads wit...
• Loish’s stylization exercise that shows how you can be more intentional with your drawing style • Stylization Exercise w...
• Stuff I have learned so far in my journey to get better at drawing faces shared on my tiny art blog bingedrawing.com/
✎📖 Books and art supplies I own (Affiliate Links):
• Drawing the Head and Hands by Andrew Loomis amzn.to/3XOC8Ef
• Charles Bargue and Jean-Leon Gerome: Drawing Course amzn.to/4eRycbY
• Constructive Anatomy by George Bridgman amzn.to/3Lb0ald
• Miniature skull amzn.to/3RNXPAb
• Faber Castell Series 9000 Pencils amzn.to/3RVnKGh
• Blackwing Pencils amzn.to/3LaHcLq
Guys, this happens to be my second video on RUclips and I would love to hear your feedback so I can improve my next video! And please do consider liking this video and subscribing to my channel so the algorithm gods are kind to me!
Thanks so much for your interest and support! 💌
Amazing video, very useful for beginners! I own the Loomis method book, but I had never heard about the other books you´ve mentionned, I´m definitely going to give it a go! As for studying sculptures and the masters, it is something that all the most skilled contemporary artists I know of speak about! I´ve personally never tried, it´s the beginner´s temptation to just skip the steps and draw whatever you want believing yours skills will magically improve. I guess it works for some people, but I it is most likely the way to go if you want to up your game!
@laschizo thanks so much for the appreciation and insights! I can totally relate because I also avoided studying fundamentals like anatomy, drawing from sculptures and masters initially.
And it was only after I realised I wasn't making any progress drawing the same type of references from pinterest that I actually said to myself you know what, I'm not going to reinvent the wheel here and let's just stick to what's worked for artists for the past 200 years 😅
You should definitely give it a try and I wish you good luck in your art journey 😊☘️
@@ammardraws That´s very well put! I´m going to try, thank you for your support! Good luck to you as well!
It's nice to see videos where the artist shows how they started and the progress they have made, thank you.
@@gwdavidson065 you're most welcome 😊
Awesome Videos!!!
Links in your description- AWESOME
Exercise 1: Drawing sculptures
Exercise 2: The Bargue method (COPY)
Exercise 3: Skull practice
Exercise 4: The Loomis head
Exercise 5: The Bridgman head cube
Exercise 6: Master studies
You should absolutely keep up the work on YT. I really love the light touch you have with your pencil. This video greatly summarises the mindset required when drawing portraits, or anything volumetric for that matters. Big shapes, proportion and structure ❤. Subscribed
Awww thanks so much for the kind words and encouragement 😊🙏 it means a lot to me 💌
Thanks
@@jameslabs1 you're most welcome 😊 🙏
This is good stuff! Well done, good vid 👏
@@DudeWhoDraws thanks so much! It means a lot to me 😊🙏
0:34 bulls!sht your literally at the peak. Stop gaslighting your self. Your art is dangerously amazing
@Wisef1sh thanks for the reassurance! 😊 to be fair, you're only seeing glimpses of my best work here and none of the really bad drawings I make everyday 😅
@@ammardraws Humble reply ❤
Coming from fellow graphic/artist, you are amazing! Do not doubt your skills and keep going!
It honestly means a lot to me! Thanks so much for your kind words! ☺🙏
A lovely, unassuming intro to portrait drawing. I've been avoiding the practice, but recently took photos of sculptures that will now prove useful. Thank you for sharing your extraordinary talent.
Thank you so much for the kind words! I feel deeply touched 💌
I would love to travel some time and observe sculptures in person as there aren't any around where I live. I hope you get to practice soon and have some really productive sessions drawing from your own references. 🍀
Such great information! Thanks for posting!
You're most welcome! Thanks for your kind words ☺🙏
I never know that a4 paper are performing so well for sketching
I switched from sketchbooks to cheap a4 papers a while back because I was being too precious with my drawings. I actually like the smooth texture that you get with these and I buy the 90 or 110 gram paper stacks so I can make some corrections without ruining the drawing. 🙂
很有启发的视频❤
I have found Bridgeman's very useful. I like your video :)
Thank you! 😊🙏
Parabéns por seu trabalho! Deu-me ânimo para voltar a estudar os grandes mestres. Obrigada pelo vídeo!
Thank you for the video😁
You are most welcome 😊
Rysujesz wyjątkowo.Czekam na następne filmy.🙂
Thank you so much 😊 🙏
You are amazing
Keep going ❤
You're too kind. Thank you 😊 🙏
Beautiful renders as always. Incredible work.
Thank you so much 😊 🙏
Thank you so much for sharing these art tips! I’m glad I came across your channel in the right time(the start), I’ll be able to watch every video you post and improve in my art journey ❤️
Could you please enlighten us on achieving likeness in portraits, I struggle with this aspect and I’d love to watch your take on it
Thanks so much for the kind words! ☺️ It would be a privilege for me to make content that helps you in your art journey in a small way. 💌
When I started drawing faces, I wanted to draw my favorite characters from the movies and famous celebrities and I got really frustrated when I was unable to get the resemblance right.
Initially what I found helpful was to not obsess too much about likeness when I was just starting to learn the basics about portraiture like the Loomis Method and anatomy.
And I think as a beginner it can be very liberating to draw faces of strangers so you don't feel the need to make your drawing to look exactly like the reference.
With that said, I think drawing the likeness well without using a grid depends on your ability to draw the basic structure well in terms of basic shapes (such as using the loomis method), knowing the basic proportions of the average face, and identifying how a particular face differs from those average proportions.
If you're interested, I wrote a blog post about tips for drawing the likeness in portraits if you're interested bingedrawing.com/portrait/tips-for-improving-likeness/
I hope this is semi-helpful to you. Good luck and have fun drawing! 🍀
@@ammardraws Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!
I love your videos so far but please push your site a bit more. That’s where we can find the real gold! Thank you for everything.
@iHyRisk thanks so much! I plan to publish more posts in the blog once I figure out a routine that works for RUclips. For now I'm pivoting more towards RUclips because lately it's been really hard to get an audience from search with a standalone blog.
Appreciate your feedback 😊 🙏
Thank you for this!!
@@jerryaubill163 you're most welcome! 😊🙏
Your portrait work is beautiful. Thank you.
@@aubreycraftjr5821 you're too kind ☺️
Thank bro
realy good tips! actualy make so much sense that is more easy to my brain understand face shapes when i´m not drawing a human face. (plus: what a exotic pencil grip you have, brother)
Thank you! ☺🙏 I know I have a weird way of holding the pencil and I'm actually trying to get used to gripping the pencil further away from the tip to draw more loosely. But, old habits I guess 😅
This is really good advice! I also I love your work, and enjoyed seeing your process! Thank you so much
@bamanster5020 thanks so much 😊🙏
Fellow Charles Barges Enjoyer , subbed
Thanks for the sub! 💌
Very helpful. Look forward to more videos.
@amjadwyne2608 thanks so much! 😊
amazing video thanks so much
@@gomarrrar7287 you're most welcome 😊 🙏
Great stuff!
Thank you 😊 🙏
Another great video with helpful advices! It really reminded me to do more studies!
That's very kind of you to say 😊 thanks 🙏
can you show us hhow to shade
@WPTHFC I'm planing to make my next video about sketching portraits with me so I'll definitely cover that 🙂
wow great video dude
Thanks 🙂
great advice thx
You're most welcome 🙂 🙏
How do you get that soft shadows? Mine always look scratchy
@quickmaff9349 I like to blend the shading a lot and that gives the drawing a bit of softness. I think I'll share my shading process in my next video so that might help you get a better idea 🙂
i will the support the channel👍👍👍
Thanks you! Your support means a lot to me 🙏😊
do u use visualizing when you look at the paper? ie imagining a head on the paper when it is still empty or something like that..?
I wouldn't quite say that I'm able to visualize the undrawn head on paper but sometimes I calculate some basic proportions like the thirds in my head without needing to draw guidelines if that makes any sense.
It's interesting what you asked and I was recently watching an interview of the late Kim Jung Gi with Proko in which he talked about his process of visualising everything he draws inside a box drawn in perspective and I thought that was quite fascinating. Here's the link to the video if you're interested and he talks about his process 9 minutes onwards ruclips.net/video/DmqFbgKWoao/видео.htmlfeature=shared
You have a nice voice. Your drawings are great! thank you for the advice =)
@onepartyroule thanks so much! 😊🙏 honestly I have always been a bit insecure about how I sound so I'm quite pleasantly surprised to hear that 😅💌
@@ammardraws Oh! Well you must stop feeling insecure because you have a lovely voice =) It’s quite relaxing actually. I hope you will continue to make your videos 🙏🌻✍️
@@onepartyroule you're too kind! Thank you 😊
Thanks for this sir, it's a big help (^^)
Happy to help! :)
I really like the video, I subscribed. Can you also make a video for someone who's a complete beginner?
@@se-uh8br sure I will! Thanks for your interest 🙂 🙏
@@ammardraws Thanks!! Looking forward to your future videos!
Add more tutorials
i've seen your post on reddit before about your portraits being boring lol
@@WPTHFC small world 🌎 😅
@@ammardraws very small. your portraits are great btw i'd like to learn how to draw like you, so please keep posting and ill keep watching
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