That Measuring Thing Artists Do With Their Pencil

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11 ай бұрын

How do I do that pencil measuring thing?? There's a new free lesson on several techniques for getting accurate proportions live on the channel!
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@KillerMoth_Stumpy 11 ай бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

Happy to help!

@CataRDJ 11 ай бұрын

The bleep caught me off guard 😂

@normalperson8723 11 ай бұрын

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

@katm8128 11 ай бұрын

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

@yellow_jacket3260 11 ай бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

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

@mysugah 11 ай бұрын

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

@3polygons 11 ай бұрын

Art is always joy and tears...

@rutikkadam8192 11 ай бұрын

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

@musamutale422 11 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 such is the life of an artist

@simple__sigma3287 10 ай бұрын

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

@RSA-zv9hd 11 ай бұрын

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

@carrot6286 11 ай бұрын

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 ❤

@artwheel2140 11 ай бұрын

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

@knowledgejunction4985 11 ай бұрын

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

@nondumbgd 11 ай бұрын

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

@3polygons 11 ай бұрын

...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 11 ай бұрын

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

@ThePieOfTheUnknown 11 ай бұрын

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

@vishalanil5856 10 ай бұрын

Jesse pinkman when looked by 2 point perspective ❤🔥

@smokelikeahippi4538 11 ай бұрын

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

@mjlpbn 11 ай бұрын

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

@vitowidjojo7038 11 ай бұрын

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

@3polygons 11 ай бұрын

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

@flache_ziege 11 ай бұрын

@@3polygonsayo?

@kaidraw333 11 ай бұрын

He is the best ❤

@jaydenfaulkner4955 11 ай бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

ART is also a Science 👌

@voice_0f_reason 11 ай бұрын

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

@-min-Language 11 ай бұрын

pls give a video of you how to drawing

@Benja944 11 ай бұрын

Assuming we all have good eyesight😢

@Fr0stbite1801 11 ай бұрын

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

@icreatesomethin3835 10 ай бұрын

I really thought that those moves was for show off

@otistically 11 ай бұрын

the groin

@jei-el2139 11 ай бұрын

At first I thought you were drawing Otzi 😅

@shuvoDhar.5537 11 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤

@VirKitt 11 ай бұрын

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

@johnedraisa 11 ай бұрын

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

@Ziggyzaggy300 11 ай бұрын

I did not read that as pencil...

@mr.insufferable1318 11 ай бұрын

In between is another 999 wrong measurements

@SOAD861 11 ай бұрын

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

@ProkoTV 11 ай бұрын

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: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qsCkoa6hmcylgJ8.html

@thalapnadaniel6130 11 ай бұрын

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

@katm8128 11 ай бұрын

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

@sw-gz9ps 11 ай бұрын

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.

@ducksoff7236 11 ай бұрын

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

@3polygons 11 ай бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

👇🏼 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😂

@alluminium9656 11 ай бұрын

He mostly talks about realism so I think he meant that

@3polygons 11 ай бұрын

@@alluminium9656 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.