STOP Wasting Time Drawing Portraits the WRONG Way!

[@xenvius_]

Would really love some commentary to explain thoughts or purpose of what you’re drawing/point of the guide lines! Other than that, wonderful drawing 😊

[@levelingartist]

I’m currently working on a series of videos which Ill post on Sunday covering how to draw the head and all the features. Hope you will enjoy those. And btw thanks ☺️

[@jomen112]

@@levelingartist The original commenter is not making a comment on your future videos, but this one, and as such he is asking the same questions I did in my comment, but in a much more polite way. In essence we are both asking why do you use a video title that does not live up to its promises? In short, we are asking for an apologize for being click baited, but trying to be polite about it. I am saying this because you may have honest intention but if you miss this subtlety, you may end up losing more subscriber than gaining. You know, nobody like to be deceived and people may get that impression from you. To try brush over it with promises in the future is worth nothing, in fact saying that only strengthen the suspicion of this video being click bait. Regardless of what, future promises is just that: thing to be seen if they are to be, when what matter is here and now. In particular if you already, unwittingly I suppose, hurt your own credibility, why should we believe you on future promises? So, not tomorrow. Now is what matters.

[@Anmoljeevan-b6f]

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[@levelingartist]

@@Anmoljeevan-b6f ❤️❤️

[@jomen112]

You may have mixed up the video title. A more proper one would be "Watch me draw a portrait with the Andrew Loomis method". I am saying this because your title suggest you will share some knowledge of yours, and in a way you did. However, if we are to believe your video title, it is unclear what we might be doing wrong. Are we supposed to figure it out by merely watching you drawing? I mean: what expectation do you have on the viewer? I had mine on your video, but I pretty soon (about one or two minutes into this video) realized they wont be fulfilled. Secondly, I know you draw from reference since I saw you take measurements to get the proportion correct. This is something you could clarified explicitly that you did, and stress the importance of not relay on judgments only but also make physical measurement to verify the judgment we make. Anyhow, if your aim is to educate, in contrast to showing off your own skill level (which is nothing wrong to do but be honest about it), I would suggest to always include the reference otherwise the viewer wont see and understand the choices you made in your mark making. Even in a non-commentary video the reference is a helpful educational tool, because without the reference the drawing is just made in an empty void.