Start Drawing a Portrait - The Right Way (Equipment, Digital Grid, Proportions & Outlines) Part I

[@cryingoverspilledmilk9569]

Not gonna lie but, grids really helped me a lot, i can see that my drawings are improving just by using grids.

[@pushkarsaxena9264]

Yes I are right

[@rjmikuwa4489]

Same, my works drastically improved

[@ilinzrh]

Love this tutorial!! When i tried using grids for the first time, that was when I was so shocked at how much better I could draw 😂

[@naegabyeonhae2496]

So true!!

[@jameshollan1160]

I'm so glad you posted this! I'm getting ready to start drawing a portrait and really need to know how to go about doing it. I've done one once before, but I know I can do better.

[@bobrutan4735]

Great..... glad to see you are discussing portraits drawing again!

[@ashnikfield4224]

Thanks for this! Graphite is my favorite medium to work with! I created a cool Tom Holland drawing with this method! That seems to be everyone’s favorite drawing of mine! Thanks for showing how to do this method I will use it in the future to improve my realistic work!

[@Zero_Ego]

Love your videos mate. Cheers from down under.

[@anoldhong2410]

Teach me more and more please. I am thirsty your teaching. Thank you so much... here is south Korea. :))

[@micahreyes7499]

Thank you for helpful. I love your drawing

[@gourprasadmahali8595]

Great tutorial.

[@anotherangrymonkey7435]

Dan...thanks!

[@ronsylvester7866]

Pleasure to watch thanks

[@Aprilsamonth]

Hi! 👋 any chance you could make a video diving into the grid method using an app? (For those who dont have a computer/printer, and are legit trying to draw from their phone) Like me! Thankyou :)

[@swepsdakittie7792]

Grid maker works. I mostly free hand,but I decided doing grids may be fun and that was efficient

[@TTomJohn]

🖒Great! Can't wait. Happy 2019!

[@jamesaritchie1]

I suspect grids are great for artists who always use reference photos, and who usually draw everything inside their home/office/studio, but I really hate using a grid, digital or not. It certainly works for the artists I describe, , but I've found it also can destroy your ability to draw portraits, and animals count as portraits, without a grid, and this is very, very bad for many of us. I do a lot of drawing outside, often of things that are near for seconds, and then are gone, whether it's a woodchuck, a fish, a coyote, a bird, a person, etc. I need to be able to get proportions right without a grid, and it isn't at all difficult, if you practice it at all. It's purely a matter of drawing what you see, and is almost certainly the easiest essential skill to learn. It goes along with turning a photo upside down. This works, too, but it's difficult to ask a horse to lie on its back, or for a person to stand on their head when there is no reference photo, and I don't use reference photos. Hyperrealism doesn't need tricks like a grid, or turning the photo upside down, and the best hyperrealism artists I know don't do these things. Nor does hyperrealism need a reference photo that you never deviate from. It doesn't need a photo at all. I had to use reference photos, just as I had to (Attempt) to copy the painting of the Old Masters. It's a good way to learn how to draw and paint. But, honestly, I rebelled against grids, and upside down drawing, as soon as they were introduced. Fortunately, I had other instructors who agreed with me. For me, a grid felt exactly like the paint by numbers kits I had when I was a kid. Now, I've seen a few very good painting done with the better paint by numbers sets, when used by someone with a little skill, but quality isn't the point. It just feels like I'm not actually drawing or painting anything real. I'm just filling in the squares the same way I filled the enclosed areas with a number on them. Cover the entire photo. reveal just one square at a time, let me fill it in, then reveal the second square, and so on. I won't even need to know what I'm drawing, but it will still come out perfectly. Anyway, I do believe it's one of those things that may be good for a beginner, but that is best abandoned as soon as you can because I think it absolutely interferes with the ability to draw many things, whether outside, or from the imagination, and to accurately judge proportions, unless you have guidelines. But as I said, many artists don't have to worry about this. Being mostly inside, and copying photos, is all they really want to do, and that's fine. It's just not the way I've spent my life. But I'm old now, mostly retired, and the world is a different place, thanks primarily to the internet and KZbin.

[@nowirehangers2815]

Yeh thanks

[@sarahamoud2036]

Awesome 😍😍

[@ozzy_4994]

Brooo this is a great tutorial

[@jypinch]

Thanks for the tutorial! love your channel

[@RobertF-]

Happy new year

[@DanBeardshaw]

Robert happy new year!

[@edwardartetv]

Great tutorial !!!

[@smilebrightly3666]

YES! Thank you for sharing x

[@lazykasoku5590]

Missed you

[@samchrischristopher4786]

Dan can i ask where you got the reference

[@BlenderBurst]

can you give us a link to the Photo you used?

[@aniltav]

Can we have the link of reference image thanks

[@calvinburr1248]

I don't have Photoshop and the free Gimp program on my mac doesn't work properly. So, I looked for an on-screen grid app and found two in the Apple app store for $1.99 US. There are probably more expensive ones, but I only wanted free or inexpensive and didn't spend any time looking at the higher priced apps. The one I tried seems to work great...it's called Raster. The other one is Screen Grid, but I haven't used it. There is at least one free one that is for PC Windows only called Meazure.

[@khobymike6755]

Do u do advice on comics

[@ZOONG12345]

Dan, do you have any tips for using grids as it gets confusing for me zooming into rows and columns. I thought I was drawing a certain square but then I was in wrong square. Thanks , love your tutorials

[@RaiSimmz]

I name the top row grids A-Z and the side rows 1-10 etc, then I know which grid I'm on

[@ThatStrongCowpoke]

Thx soooo much

[@skiribi4373]

Finaly!!!!!!!!!!

[@adityashet2042]

Wow 👌 👏 super sir, waiting for this

[@wolfcry8968]

Artist Grid app. works well.

[@kenjobogo408]

Can u suggest some good pencil???

[@jamessayer1309]

May I ask how many "parts" are in this Luke Skywalker series? Thanks. (Would be helpful if artists posted in their vid titles which part of how many... 1/7 or 1 of 7)

[@voldy3565]

Bruh I can't even draw the grid right...

[@notOrthross]

you're not alone mate

[@beenie_2357]

Mee too😂

[@rashmisherchan2860]

Happy new year.... Guys...

[@a1.customz553]

Great tutorial Dan! Keep it up 👏🏽🔥👀

[@DanBeardshaw]

a1.customz thanks:)

[@a1.customz553]

Dan Beardshaw np 🙌🏽

[@motivation.10.quotes.]

Which grid method is that????

[@ensignj3242]

I can’t find the photo you are using on google images

[@foxsmith770]

These are the type of videos I subscribed for, thanks

[@ruthdallas6125]

I don’t have photoshop and the grid app I downloaded is extremely hard to use. Any suggestions? I try just doing it by hand on a photo but it wastes printer ink and is so tedious and then you still don’t have it on the digital image.

[@mhammadjaber6171]

thank you very much, amazing tutorial !

[@abhishekjaryal7090]

Suggest me thr best tools for sketching

[@O-cDxA]

How do I go aboat finding the author of an image I find online ? ( for copyrights ) Thanks !

[@aryeshbanerjee3412]

Plzzz Dan..make a tutorial about how to draw white hairs in beard...plzz..I seriously need it

[@krxno7969]

great👏🤙

[@deyanchebeats]

When is the part 2 coming? Great video btw. Keep it up!!

[@DanBeardshaw]

dejanxavdic when it’s ready but hopefully not too long haha, thanks man

[@deyanchebeats]

@@DanBeardshaw Cool.

[@morganrose9765]

How do you know what size the squares are

[@nickidis6320]

it doesnt matter, it's up to you what the size of the picture will be, it just has to be squares

[@steph.0dd]

drawing her for her bday surprise hope she'll like it

[@whatever-tk2pp]

Aww

[@steph.0dd]

she liked it.

[@ensignj3242]

I dont see that image on google

[@janicelancaster3020]

Could I ask please where you downloaded the grid from. Thank you

[@ashnikfield4224]

He was on photoshop and I think there is a setting where you can insert a grid into there :)

[@khiemnguyenba9062]

Can you give me the source of that Luke Skywalker cause i cant find it anywhere on the internet.

[@HeleneWheatfield0549]

'Just take a grid off the net' & 'you can tell how long each square is'......how, though. You younger ones might just absorb this by some kind of osmosis process, but grids still are a mystery to me. Is this the full Photoshop package (which costs a gazillion dollars), or can this be done on Photoshop elements? I've just used a grid on a Chromebook Drawing, by inserting a table, & happened to touch a line & it just disappeared, just like that. I go to insert the table again (which is what you do apparently in Chromebook to get grids), & it inserts another table over the top. Just sayin, not so easy for some of us. 😂

[@jester3649]

Why are my drawed "mouths" so bad.. I don't get it. Its always the worst about the whole drawing

[@JossPayne]

I lost my tombow mono eraser

[@kevinalonso4203]

First like

[@ashnikfield4224]

And first comment :)

[@heavyrain8821]

I don’t like the grade lines method I’m trying to draw with free hand which is harder and more interesting I was drawing every day free hand , when I tried the grade lines I become lazy and unhappy with drawings I know it’s more accurate but may be not for me , Thank you ‘.’

[@CaptainWumbo]

Hassan T I think the value of the grid is to help people look at something abstractly and give them opportunities to notice how things warp in perspective and aren't the size we might expect. It also gives many opportunities to notice common proportions and alignments, such as where eyes and ears are in relation to each other. Then you carry that knowledge back with you to drawing from life and from imagination, it helps you draw more quickly and accurately. Of course if people only ever draw from grid or from tracing, it's kind of tedious and a little disingenous.

[@heavyrain8821]

CaptainWumbo I appreciate your comment Thank you 👍

[@chrisnortcliffe3663]

Can you help me please

[@iamnaudar]

I am still wondering why your grid on paper is darker than your actual drawing sketch does... You should be using at least a 2H for the grid imo

[@itsbrad4525]

I think it was for video purposes so you could see it . 😘

[@varzarualex4400]

Im a begginer(i think,but i cand draw realisticaly portraits,so yea)i don't use he grid,and i still get the proportions verry aqurate,but i will try this onetime

[@heavyrain8821]

Don’t ,

[@huzainijai1184]

Do grid line too. Only someone who think they're "pro" or absolute talented will draw without foundation.

[@ashnikfield4224]

I don’t personally enjoy this one al much. I like to trace my sketches. It’s not cheating because it doesn’t do ANY of the hard work at all and it gives me great proportions!

[@yehanndsilva196]

Could some one please tell me who this is

[@jamespullen4920]

Grids are a horrible way of drawing? It makes you tighten up and focus on the details instead of focusing on the larger areas first 💀

[@TheReal_Kuzi]

Great tutorial