Proportion Drawing Tips - How to Create Accurate Drawings

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Proportion Drawing Tips - How to Create Accurate Drawings. In this tutorial video, I go over some tips I know for proportions and how to keep your drawings in proportion and more accurate. Hope this helps you! :)
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@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

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@mariocosentino3863 4 жыл бұрын

Hi, I don't understand when you take the width that you have determined on the paper and then rotate the pencil vertically it to create a square how can you be sure that after rotating it the pencil hasn't moved from the original position?

@omeismordaunt6224 3 жыл бұрын

@@mariocosentino3863 You should try to pinch your finger around the point of the pencil that maintains the measurement.

@freewheels7544 2 жыл бұрын

It's not often that i subscribe to a yt channel , but this video and the channel over all is of good quality , keep it up!

@luvella9795 5 жыл бұрын

This is more helpful than spending 4 hours in my drawing class.

@kyraakira7933 5 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Someones just dont wat to teach art, couse it base on talent they say. And theese people went teaching... I assume, to sabotage?....

@yunusatas7020 5 жыл бұрын

ı cracked! hahahah yeah indeed!

@onetenonetenonetenoneten2305 4 жыл бұрын

Yare yare

@MultiTrollface999 4 жыл бұрын

lol I got shafted out of a drawing class

@InkAndPoet 2 жыл бұрын

@@MultiTrollface999 is the reason because you, as they said on Impractical jokers, dry humped the sculptures?

@tuckrex2038 4 жыл бұрын

the length of the lead on the pencil gives me anxiety

@veaudor 4 жыл бұрын

Its an academic thing..

@aidanc.d.2695 4 жыл бұрын

It’s for if he wants to draw with an overhand grip, it’s common for fine artists to carve back their pencils to expose more lead :)

@aidanc.d.2695 4 жыл бұрын

ender gaming yeah i just use a lead/charcoal holder bc ain’t nobody got time for whittling pencils

@reddpoint3788 4 жыл бұрын

I opened the video to see a crazy weird pencil and the word "persimmon" and thought "Huh, so that's what art school does to people."

@tiner8414 4 жыл бұрын

I bet its great practise for not pressing too hard down with your pencil.

@lioh656 5 жыл бұрын

i like how you managed to get straight to the point and only talk about the subject on hand. really informative and definitely helped me figure out how to not fuck up my proportions.

@alma-wi 3 ай бұрын

right!

@sabus4312 5 жыл бұрын

learned something new Guestimate

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear 😊

@ggtiket 4 жыл бұрын

I’ve never even heard of the fruit he’s drawing...

@MultiTrollface999 4 жыл бұрын

@@ggtiket I had my first persimmon a few months ago, it was growing on my grandpa's farm

@evangelinepoe8952 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I've been teaching myself to draw so I'll give this technique a try.

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

Sounds good, hope it goes well :)

@SebsTheRatKing 5 жыл бұрын

Same with me 😂

@beankaty2651 3 жыл бұрын

Bro same, I’ve never watched art videos but now I want to try and be good

@philleshy4822 5 жыл бұрын

Holy... This what i need for a long time ago, i have been learning to draw but no improvement at all, thank you so much

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

No problem, more drawing basics and fundamentals to come :)

@Blablablahx3 2 жыл бұрын

Been drawing by myself since I was a little kid. I'm 25 now and this video is super interesting to me because I have no freaking technique and wing everything lol but somehow it turns out nice probably just from spending so much time on it. Maybe I can finally incorporate such a technique as this into my process to make things easier and faster for me. ^^ Thank you dude

@SchaeferArt 2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it!

@gingerfreak01 10 ай бұрын

I was the same, and was subconsciously using some comparative size/position techniques (I love doing portraits) - I know that eye's a bit low and can fix it by moving it up where the eye cavity is level with x and y - but watching a few videos like this (which I thought was great btw) made me so much quicker, formalised my thinking, and with extra ideas. In fact these sort of vids made me feel I wasn't unartistic, which I've felt at times, they made me feel like I was on the right line. Incorporate it, it's so worth it! And look for other vids too around this subject. You'll be so much quicker and if you get frustrated or feel like it's busywork trying to get things in the right place, this sort of instruction is brilliant and lets you get on with the fun stuff.

@JH-pe3ro 4 жыл бұрын

Here is a guesstimate proportioning trick that I discovered today, which helps with proportioning complex forms before you've started breaking them down: First pick out a few points on the outline of your reference that you can use as anchors. Guess where those points land on the page, then sketch "probing" lines that simply connect all of the points to each other. All of the points will be somewhat wrong at first, but what happens when you connect them is that the probing lines will start to reveal where the error is, because they'll form different angles than what you see in the reference - and then you can go back for a more confident second pass. I've always struggled with proportion, but in a lot of cases, it comes down to a mix of using more reference and finding a way of constructing it that lets me calculate and subdivide with simpler, easier-to-estimate ratios.

@kyraakira7933 5 жыл бұрын

if it would be possible, i deffinitely would be liked this 3 times already, You just solved a big problem of me. I had a serious fight against proportions and perspectives. Now I see more clearly.Thank you.

@goodlikemaster 4 жыл бұрын

The same with me...I was taking measures deliberately in a way instinctive

@artsyabin8145 3 жыл бұрын

Can i ask how are you doing with your art's

@kyraakira7933 3 жыл бұрын

@@artsyabin8145 hi, I am struggling since but not as much as then. It is. a shame but I need a teacher, so this is my new mission. Wish me luck. :) Also I am learning a lot like compositions and line art. I am a bit shy about my art in this state but I definitely see the end of the struggle now, that I did not see before.

@artsyabin8145 3 жыл бұрын

@@kyraakira7933 woah you replied so quick. Wish you all the best

@watercolourkeyes 4 жыл бұрын

You are an amazing teacher! I’m so glad I’ve found you. Thank you for sharing your talent and knowledge.

@kittymictur8600 4 жыл бұрын

I never realized our ears lined up the way the do!! Itll be a lot easier for me to place them on figures now that I know this!

@peggyrogers7012 4 жыл бұрын

Love that you give real-world, practical instruction. Thanks!

@SchaeferArt 4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@wild4192 3 жыл бұрын

Have been following you for sometime now. Really enjoy every bit of it. Just don't stop doing it. Thumbs up.

@lalitkhairnar9173 5 жыл бұрын

Sir, so helpful because I stopped drawing from last 6 months and I found really hard to draw now.your tutorial help a lot to back on my drawings. Thanks. This video shows me from where to start a drawing. Thanks again.

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome 😎 have fun.

@allmyrattys 4 жыл бұрын

Wow I learned so much from this! I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. Thanks so much!

@CraneStyleNJ 2 жыл бұрын

I remember watching this video about a year and a half ago when I started to learn and didn't get the concept so much. What I know now though this video makes much more sense. Thank you!

@yunusatas7020 5 жыл бұрын

thank you for sharing! I am new to drawing and trying to be a self thought medical illustrator. ı am always out of proportions. thank you and really looking forward to more tutorials of all kind.

@ScheherazOdd 3 жыл бұрын

This has to be the first time in my life that I searched for something and found *exactly* what I was looking for! This helps so much! Thanks!

@SchaeferArt 3 жыл бұрын

Really glad to hear

@PeterHenrichsen 5 жыл бұрын

Great help! I've needed that video for years! Thank you!

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful :)

@Boomge666 4 жыл бұрын

Returning to drawing after over a decade of not, thank you for this, very helpful :)

@cncshorts1075 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for all your videos, inspirational, motivating. Much love

@costelandone5128 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks man for this tips! I love you work man! Congrats!

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks man! 😊

@krydala7650 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, finally someone who explains the one thing I couldn't figure out.. I DO feel kind of dumb cause now the solution seems obvious.. just make either height or width a fixed length but maaaan... this taught me more of what i wanted to know than my art classes. Sometimes it's those small things that make all the difference. So again, thank you!

@chatnoir1579 4 жыл бұрын

Ive struggled with proportions for the longest, thank you for this

@kingboo9573 3 жыл бұрын

I wish I watched this two years ago, this video has provided a great help go me and will definitely use the advice. Thank you!!!!

@chadcarpenter1959 5 жыл бұрын

Great video, very helpful. Everything I know I've pretty much been self taught and would love a career in art. Your videos are very informative

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

Have fun 😊

@ShootFirstNS 4 жыл бұрын

This is the hack i needed to feel progress in my art, thanks so much

@bluciuswastaken 5 жыл бұрын

That Pencil tip looks like its going to break O.O

@prciousposts6588 3 жыл бұрын

I think it’s so you draw lighter with a longer tip and that can be useful when sketching 🖤🖤🖤

@-mayanvsszn 3 жыл бұрын

It’s the fact that he doesn’t even have an eraser O.O

@sanazrafi2707 2 жыл бұрын

It was so useful video. Thanks Schaefer.

@elizabethkapas9437 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this terrific explanation and method of maintaining proportions. Your videos are fantastic, and your work is extraordinary.

@andrealnborg8280 4 жыл бұрын

I cannot tell you how much this video and method improved my proportions. Thank you for sharing!

@SchaeferArt 4 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

@333cheese Жыл бұрын

This was the most helpful video on this topic thanks

@Germaioni3 Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Your video is really good!

@nicolasjass3653 2 жыл бұрын

For someone who is trying to learn how to draw on their own from scratch, this is incredibly helpful and easy to interpret!

@SchaeferArt 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome to hear

@amysambrook1305 3 жыл бұрын

Hi I’m really struggling with proportions and accuracy so this is great! However I use watercolours and often find myself left with visible sketch lines or mucky eraser marks as watercolour paints are very faint and transparent and of course I use the unpainted paper as highlights so pencil marks show through. How would you deal with this problem? Thanks!

@SchaeferArt 3 жыл бұрын

I'm actually a watercolorist as well. But mostly landscapes so usually the sketch beforehand doesn't have to be that accurate - usually. What kind of subjects do you paint?

@aidanc.d.2695 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the thorough video-I just subbed! 😁💖

@SchaeferArt 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for subbing! Much appreciated :)

@bernadettekendell1176 5 жыл бұрын

100 drawing vids later about proportions and yours is by far the only true way to capture reality,not the formulaic and statuesque formula most others practice ,thanks

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words! Glad it was helpful :)

@_biomacromolecules7782 2 жыл бұрын

great lesson! you are a brilliant teacher, thank you for sharing your wisdom :)

@quirkyhonor3427 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. This video was very helpful, and I appreciate it so much.

@alyssa7536 4 жыл бұрын

so helpful! great explanation, ill def be using this method, thank you!

@SchaeferArt 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome to hear!

@richalvarezfan101 2 жыл бұрын

Thank youn SO much for sharing this in a way that makes it accessible for everyone! Definitely subscribing :)

@RayNaso 3 жыл бұрын

Terrific tutorial. Very beneficial technique, especially for portraits. Thanks for posting.

@SchaeferArt 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@displaychicken 4 жыл бұрын

I love that you got into the useful information immediately.

@SchaeferArt 4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@brightandsunny 5 жыл бұрын

Really helpful! Thank you. I watercolor but am a terrible sketcher; this gives me such a good starting point. Please keep posting!

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

Will do. Hope it goes well 😊

@panayiotakatsamentidou4925 5 жыл бұрын

Very useful information, please continue❤

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful :) Definitely more to come.

@jachii196 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you this is very helpful i was having some trouble understanding this but you helped me

@muhlenstedt 5 жыл бұрын

Very useful and important video, thank you

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful :) Have fun!

@joanneblough6958 4 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed this video and found it very helpful! Thank you!

@SchaeferArt 4 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear!

@arnavsingh8512 3 жыл бұрын

That was so helpful..Thanks so much!!

@lei1954 5 жыл бұрын

This is definitely helpful ! Thankyou.

@jon2.059 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tips here man!

@SchaeferArt 3 жыл бұрын

No worries!

@jalopy2222 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome video Brandon! I've been following your channel for a couple years and doing art for about that long, but I learned something with this video. Keep it up man, Hope to see you hit that million sub mark!

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear :) I'm going to be focusing more on the basics and fundamentals for a while because it seems it would help a lot of folks out. I think it'll be a long while before I hit the 1 million mark haha, but I am really close to 300,000. But who's counting.

@grade7519 3 жыл бұрын

Thankyou so much ! This is a very helpful video

@marianargazevedo 5 жыл бұрын

Best explanation EVER! ❤️

@antonionarenta9854 3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, that was very well explained sir. A good deal of videos I watched often diverge off topic.

@SchaeferArt 3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear

@lauriebetz9092 4 жыл бұрын

Again , Thank you ! You’re the best teacher ever !

@SchaeferArt 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you!

@thatguyTushar 5 жыл бұрын

Brandon, how would you go about measuring objects that are off in the distance?

@bubak4960 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the tips. It helps me a lot

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear :) More to come.

@LadyJP6969 10 ай бұрын

Awesome!!! Thanks for sharing!!! Subscribed!!!

@SchaeferArt 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the sub! I appreciate it. Hope the drawing goes well! :)

@NotThatBob 5 жыл бұрын

Nicely done. Thanks for the video.

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

For sure 😊

@CarNerd7 Жыл бұрын

great video!!

@shailajatrivedi4582 4 жыл бұрын

This is so helpful. i can even take help from your videos for any entrance exams!!!!!

@SchaeferArt 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome :)

@kathandterry2 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much I have watched sooo many vids on how to yours is so well explained great stuff !! How do you sharpen your pencils please have a good day

@allangoncalves1453 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!! hope you do more tutorials

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

Plan on it, a lot more to come :)

@brenttaylordotus 5 жыл бұрын

Very nicely done Brando.

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

😎 thank you!

@MissMelindas 5 жыл бұрын

So helpful! Thank you.

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

No problem 😊

@joycegilley6601 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! What a valuable video for me!

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome.

@kushunadkat9087 2 жыл бұрын

2:00- it’s happened to me in the past, it’s happened to all of us. Dude- bold of you to assume that I’ve drawn before, the best I’ve done is stick figures when I was in kindergarten and I haven’t drawn since. But tysm for your tutorial on perception. It’s helping me a lot rn

@ren-il1iw 2 жыл бұрын

great video! thanks :D

@shuvoarts.3314 3 жыл бұрын

Very helpful video 👍👍👍❤

@jasminelane79 4 жыл бұрын

Very informative! Thank you 😊

@SchaeferArt 4 жыл бұрын

No problem

@toddfullerton3930 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent! Thank you.

@SchaeferArt 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@mspates5982 5 жыл бұрын

Wow that was very useful information! I am a new subscriber!

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear 😊

@HM-fw6op 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the help

@utubehandlepr 5 жыл бұрын

U make it seem so simple.. its awesome 👍

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

I try to simplify things when I can :) It's still a challenging method of drawing but I think it might help a lot of folks figure out where there problems lie.

@maramtaha2531 2 жыл бұрын

so much helpfull thank u

@tetradamallian 5 жыл бұрын

Very helpful video. I'm definitely going to have to try that about keeping the width or height the same. My drawings always seem to get smaller the longer I work them.

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

Haha I know what you mean, it happens to us all :) Mine get larger sometimes but I do try to stick to this method and I find it helpful too. Things don't always go as planned though, so it takes a lot of practice to get used to it.

@irenemartin7155 4 жыл бұрын

So helpful!

@SchaeferArt 4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@longboardin1 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for just getting right to it! Love that

@SchaeferArt 4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@lu_re7198 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Looking forward to learning more about measurements and maybe relationships (?) between objects and interior perspectives. 😀 I still struggle with these things...So tired of trying to fix a wonky interior painting.

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

Yes going to do more on this. Do you mean interior as in buildings and such or interior just in terms of like a face and features inside of an object?

@lu_re7198 5 жыл бұрын

SchaeferArt I was referring to the interior of a room and the alignment of furniture, figures, floors, walls, corners...wrt receding lines, etc.

@spade3499 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! This really helped.

@SchaeferArt 3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear!

@ulysseBa Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this 6 seconds intro, right into the subject 😩👌

@SchaeferArt Жыл бұрын

No problem, hope you enjoy it

@ramchandradhond9794 5 жыл бұрын

Very nicely explained. Thank you sir

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear!

@chin5707 4 жыл бұрын

Great video

@jacryder735 2 жыл бұрын

who knew you could draw rounded shapes from straight lines. this is nuts

@SchaeferArt 2 жыл бұрын

Haha I know right. I felt the same way when I first learned it too. And it's really the best way to do it - in my practice and opinion.

@ranjitray1392 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful and information video

@SchaeferArt 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

@Anonymous-pq4mr 5 жыл бұрын

The block diagram really helped me.. Thanx

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear 😊

@cherry6609 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you this was helpful

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear 😊 no problem.

@sandwich336 3 жыл бұрын

Damn this is very helpful! Thank you!

@SchaeferArt 3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear!

@yourbro7781 3 жыл бұрын

Wow this was noice. I subbed

@misadarelax1250 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you ,very helpful

@SchaeferArt 5 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear 😊

@DJKloop 4 жыл бұрын

i have a big problem with width. whenever i draw something i find that i have made it wider than it should be yet height seems to be ok (ish).. when i match things up to see how much i am out its a large margin. any ideas what i am doing wrong or what habit i have that i need to work towards correcting ?