Tutorial how to draw 'without measuring' and get the proportions right

I had a question of a follower of my channel. So here is a little video with an explanation.

[@sonamoo919]

Start with the position of eye and imagining a triangle shape that connects eyes and nose! This is a very helpful tip and it works! Thank you for this video.

[@69AssSlapper]

Love it man!!

[@tonym994]

thank you, too. I'll remember that .I like your logo ID.

[@user-uh1vx9yn5m]

I've looked at a ton of drawing a face videos and this is what I've been waiting for. Incredible process like art inside out. Powerful! Thank you!

[@after6231]

Hi, I really love your video! I can never draw a realistic face because proportions and the features are just too difficult but your video really helped! I also followed one of your other videos and it was the closest thing to realistic I ever drawn! Thank you very much!

[@sMyMe9540]

Two years later, have you improved?

[@paulwoodford1984]

@@sMyMe9540 He’s now the new leonardo

[@fionarodricks5677]

Great technique. More expressive and quicker than all the portrait techniques I have encountered so far.

[@SketchingScottie]

Love your work. Thanks for sharing your thoughts behind how you are sketching 🙌🏼

[@chucklupardo]

Thank you for all your advice! You’ve really helped me improve due to your style, ease and feel. Look forward to continuing the journey 🙌🏻.

[@PeterJochems]

That is great to hear! Thanks!

[@jatinkay23]

Ridiculously fantastic

[@secretsun5080]

This conscious way to visualize seems like a really good practice. Great video, thanks!

[@tonym994]

we want more. we want more! I liked this, but I really wish we saw it getting close to finished. being a method that he knows well, It's second nature to him. I understand what he's doing, tho. he actually is measuring in his own way.

[@didierleprince6106]

Thanks a lot for your precious advice (:

[@Giancarlo_DellErnia]

Whereas the typically academic technique proceeds by following precise patterns of construction for the purpose of accurately recreating forms and only then shaping them with shading, you proceed in reverse. The play of light and shadow creates shapes that you are able to see and transfer to paper through a process similar to that of someone modeling with clay: layers of graphite that gradually give life to the shapes and then to the figure. Being able to place the forms in the right places while respecting the original proportions of the model without resorting to lines and measurements is undoubtedly a skill that develops over time and with experience. I personally find your style very interesting because it is a stimulating alternative to the prevailing hyperrealistic style of these days. I like to see traces of the artist's work, of the raw material taking shape and giving life to the subject. All of this brings drawing back to a material, almost organic dimension, I don't know if I make the point. Thank you very much for this video of yours.

[@PeterJochems]

Hey thank you, I think you have decribed it better than I could!

[@paulglobus9999]

This is wonderful. I love your highly evocative and suggestive style. You make it look very easy but obviously it's not. I will now be looking for your other tutorials. Thank you.

[@nitinmishra7739]

Hey peter thankyou so much,thankyou for the sweet gesture making a video on it......

[@PeterJochems]

You're welcome Nitin, thanks for the suggestion. I hope it is useful.

[@redspaghetti]

Thank you for you videos sir. This is very helpful. I'm glad I found your channel :)

[@s0ne01]

great video i was just struggling with proportions recently and great video

[@ishanchourasia]

Thank you for making this video, I'm learning a lot from this.

[@TakomaChris]

Thank you so much for this - I have learned basic face elements via loomis method but like this approach -

[@paulwoodford6229]

This man is a artistic God. 😋

[@PaulGavris666]

Hey man ! You should post more on your Facebook,Twitter or Patreon page ! I wanna see more from ya !! Stay healthy and watch out for coronavirus ! 👍👍👌

[@PeterJochems]

Yes, I should :-) More is coming. You stay safe too.

[@victorcasanueva3542]

Thank you very much for this original video, I will wait for the next one

[@lisanagomiero8142]

LEI INSEGNA BENISSIMO!GRAZIE MILLE!

[@martinaramirez2509]

Thank you ,good video

[@artplussk_222]

Nice n different looking style

[@johannes.2089]

Thanks that a great help. Do you have the drawing hand on the paper or is the hand flying over the paper while drawing hatches?

[@colterlabeau8025]

Thanks for the video! This seems similar to Paul Ingbretson's approach.

[@hyoyeonsblondehair4315]

Thank you!

[@AaronMcKnight18]

Your so amazing

[@gcemmunn7870]

Thanks!

[@JamesWilliams-ey5kn]

Awesome

[@carloscs1007]

Just try to get old mags showing human figures (erotics sports dance culturism,... ) and try to draw upon them construction lines, symmetry axes, analyze proportions, movement, anatomy, etc... with a colour fine ballpoint pen I tried with this these last weeks and it helps to learn. Anyway its optional and understood only as complementary... I did it these last weeks with a lot of old stuff of mine that i had in my house and it it worked fine.

[@chin2178]

Hey ! Can you make a vdo on how to make your own style

[@Trid3nt861]

I am learning from Steve Houston that if you break down the head and face, its literally an upside down sailboat for the “mask” and a circle on the back for the cranium of the skull..

[@ourhappylife1827]

Will this method work if i want to draw hyper realistic sketches?

[@chin2178]

What art book do you read 🙏!

[@BuShkaBa]

Hi, Does this method of portrait drawing have a name ? (not first drawing the egg shape of head and proportion lines I mean) I had a book about this long long time ago, but I can't find it no more.

[@PeterJochems]

Hi Bushkaba, I don''t really have a name for it, but the other method you mention is more about constructing a framework to build upon. My approach is more optical, I think. My problem with constructing a framework using geometric shapes is that it can easily lead to inaccuracies.

[@BuShkaBa]

@@PeterJochems Yeah too bad I can't find that book no more, but now I found your videos to lead me. I also found it more easy back then I think to start from one point like the eye and then gradually move from there from feature to feature and built up from the inside out sort of speak...

[@jamesampleford1236]

I think this method is known as mass drawing.

[@brandonsease2834]

That is. A nice trick. Can I. Do. That. From any reference. My. Friend

[@alonzogonzalez4272]

Is it bad to use the loomis method for proportions?

[@anatome469]

There is no problem! I even believe (in my point of view) that using the Loomis head is easier for beginners. Just try both ways and see what you feel more comfortable with!

[@lauchew]

Can someone give me the name of the painting please? Thank you!

[@Nicko974]

Jajaja...good idea.

[@claussslh8116]

Beautiful

[@jokegabriel2452]

Bedankt voor de uitleg, deze vraag stelde kindje vandaag en zie hier het antwoord, thanks✍️

[@jokegabriel2452]

Ik bedoel stelde ik je vandaag😊👍🙋‍♀️

[@PeterJochems]

@@jokegabriel2452 Ah okay :-)

[@blackjack-ks8zn]

I found that something's weird with my drawing(well obviously), I just couldn't see what I see in others like the lines etc. I was able to do so-so at porportion and anatomy but it looks weird. Any advice for me?

[@PeterJochems]

Try to draw after the source photograph, then put away the photograph and try do draw it from memory, then try again from the source photograph. Maybe that helps.

[@futurestoryteller]

0:06 Are you drawing this _exact_ same picture in the thumbnail? Because honestly my first thought was that the face looks too long and/or that the head is tilted up too much. It reminds me of when someone says "You look like..." (such and such celebrity) and they have very distinct features that distinguish them from each other. Maybe it's an untrained eye, but I struggle with proportion too, and I'm still good at spotting these discrepancies for some reason. You'd think I'd be able to capitalize on that.

[@PeterJochems]

Yeah, when you compare them in the original asmr video there are some differences. I don't know if spotting differences can be translated directly into drawing proportions correctly. Maybe take some rest to refresh a certain moments and watch your unfinished drawing with fresh eyes to spot where you might have gone wrong.

[@futurestoryteller]

@@PeterJochems I know, that's good advice. I think I have trouble early on when the drawing is more of an abstraction, spotting these kinds of mistakes seems like it could be easier once details are introduced, the effect is compounded, and the differences become exponentially more obvious. I should try to train myself anyway, it's worth a shot.

[@andrecastro1980]

I'm gonna try this. How do you fix your camera? Maybe I will post my result.

[@PeterJochems]

I use a lightweight camera Canon g7x on a modified desklight. Good luck

[@andrecastro1980]

@@PeterJochems Dankjewel!

[@jayantilal4772]

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[@adolfodelgado5366]

Just pratice pratice practice practice you make mistakes but continue, practice till you one day you surprised yourself, did I did that wwooaaoo

[@PeterJochems]

Yeah, okay, but my video would be over in one minute if I say that...

[@bssbss1752]

Its interesting but not very helpful in drawing hyperrealistic I think. This technique is good for sketching.

[@pjsmith2629]

Good video peter but you were drawing larger than your reference

[@PeterJochems]

What's wrong with that?

[@psinha6502]

@@PeterJochems nothing. I think it's even more challenging this way. Right peter?

[@emilijanostultus1766]

I make mistakes even when I measure my drawing. 🤣 Not big mistakes, but still mistakes...

[@PeterJochems]

A wise man once called those 'Happy accidents' ;-)

[@emilijanostultus1766]

@@PeterJochems Hahaha! Well, he may be right but for landscapes. Portrait mistakes (in proportion) look weird, most of the time. 🤣 Have a beautiful day! 😀

[@subzero429]

Smh this guy has noooo idea what he's talking about. Smh where's the perspective, the structures, the front and side planes.? What happened to simplifying the head? This is wrong in so many ways. He keeps saying " in his mind" not according to the fundamentals.

[@PeterJochems]

There are more roads that lead to Rome.

[@Drawing-Life]

There is no "wrong way" ... drawing is a visual language. Peter is pretty masterful in his language I would say

[@psinha6502]

Also keep in mind he just gave us a gist of how u can resembles portrait in fun relaxing way which for most part justify why we appreciate Art

[@shadethedon8351]

The amount of people on the internet that " TEACH " things that themselves doesn't understand is absolutely mind boggling ! " If you can't explain what you've understand to a 8 years old kid, you've not understand it. " to put it simply. If you cannot translate intuition thinking into analytical thinking don't put " HOW TO " in your fucking title or thumnail !

[@PeterJochems]

Take a deep breath