If you enjoyed this demo, check out my previous lesson where I show you how to draw accurate proportions - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1J7RQvKnWf4.html
@@ProkoTV in the layers menu, drag a layer to the left to have the option to Duplicate the layer. Faster than going to the menu for it. 😄 Thank you for pointing out the Curves menu, I definitely need to make more use of that. 👍
Thank you! Didn't know the mask method - I usually just lower the opacity of the reference image (with a white background) and leave the drawing layer in black/white and then set it to multiply.
I’ve been following your free courses and honestly one day I might buy a few when I feel I need them, but the free ones have already been so helpful. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Strange way of doing it. I'd create a white layer and set it between your two layers and adjust its alpha. This would have the effect of bleaching your photo and the dark sketch lines would stand out clearly above the bleached out photo. But a great idea for checking sketch proportions 👍
There are so many different ways to do any one thing in a program. They're usually born from how people use the tool most. This is the one I've found works best for me. Thanks for sharing yours!
I was doing this already😅 and it helped me a lot. Kudos to you proko for uploading this and helping fellow community, that too for free you are amazing.
We are following you from Turkey. You have opened the Turkish language to automatic translation in most tutorial videos, thank you very much for your sensitivity. We would be very glad if you could open some of your videos that are not open for translation. Thanks in advance🖤
i presume youre talking about working on digital platforms from the beginning? this is probably more for people who like to draw on paper or other traditional mediums. i did this on digital and youre right. its so much easier.
Many thanks to Proko! And one question for every one here please: I know I am too greedy and lazy, but, is there any APP can do this process less manually? which can automatically extract the lines from the drawing and use as a mask layer?
Hey I was wondering how I will go about learning realism drawing (not hyper realism; a style similar to yours to produce drawings like learning forms to understand drawings to then be able to create them). Should I take a portrait course first or a figure course first and then what would you suggest after that? I know starting from the ground up (like your drawings basics course) would be great but I don’t know what courses or classes I would pursue after to make myself better.
If you're an absolute beginner, Drawing Basics is the right way to go. It will teach you what you need to know before taking on portraiture or gesture.
I know AI is a huge issue in the art community now, but imagine if we got an AI art critique that corrects technical issues by just inserting your drawings into it and cross referencing it with the image you try to study or perhaps art style instead of AI doing the art. Just like proko said you can’t always have an instructor, and it would also lessen the burden on a lot of professionals and teachers, and it wouldn’t be enough to replace them because critiquing is only one aspect of teaching.
I think everyone can agree that AI is fine when used as a tool but when corporations want to use AI as full replacements for everything from cooks to art then we have a problem. These corporations are ignorant & can’t see beyond $$. They take away these jobs then who’s gonna purchase they’re products? AI? Lol 🤦♂️
I’m thinking about getting the Proko subscription on the website but I’m hesitant because my medium is digital art. Would it still be worth the purchase for me?
Not getting why you just didn't set opacity down to around 30% on the 2nd layer. Everything else seems unnecessary if you are just overlaying to check your proportions.
This method is for big visibility. Some drawings people make have really thin or lines and other characteristics that make this type of process a little more necessary. If people are good with just lowering opacity, using multiply or any other types of checks, they should do them!
@@ProkoTV Can also just reverse what's on what layer. Put your drawing on the first layer and the reference on the second. Lines stay dark and can see all you need to see from the lighter reference for comparison. Agree. Do it however you want.
Sorry if this is a silly question, but why bother to do this with a physical drawing? I mean, I guess know why, but why not use that iPad with Procreate to draw in the first place and then check the proportion much easier? Using paper just seems to add a bunch of unnecessary steps. To this exercise at least.
Fair enough. I just assumed that if you have an iPad, you would rather use that for drawing then paper. But I have a Wacom tablet and still keep a sketchbook, so I don't know why I thought that :P@@ProkoTV
That's a good question! Having a finer tip can definitely contribute to that issue. You're trying to fill a big area with the tiniest little point. Try with a more dull pencil tip, the SIDE of the graphite and with a softer pencil if those other two don't help. I have a video on sharpening pencils that shows that in action: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rWUYuDlXUoY.html
Because we're demoing it in Procreate! In a video that came out shortly before this, we showed it in Photoshop and a massive amount of people asked for it in Procreate.
Sean's right! This video shows it in Procreate but in the full demo on proportions, we showed how to do this in Photoshop: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1J7RQvKnWf4.html The method in there should work for similar programs like GIMP and even Photopea!
Holy cow! It takes sssooooo long to do all this and it’s prpblematic. Solution:: Do actual size. Draw your image. Trace it on tracing paper. Put traced image over photo and check. Rather instant. ***I i use finger spread. Point of thumb tip to pinky tip as a regular size for flesh face (excluding hair) yes, get into a dependable grove. Images will change regardless.
Imo you'd train better without any kind of tracing. As the important factor is to train your capability to understand the proportions and relations, carry those distances correctly as a brain exercise, and be able to draw anything without those helpers. Otherwise you'd improve slower, and not in the essential matters... It's my opinion, though (I don't need any tracing now).
