You Won’t Believe How Quickly This Method Will Improve Your Drawing

[@IOSARBX]

Florent Farges - arts, I loved this video so much, I had to hit the like button!

[@FlorentFargesarts]

✨✨✨Thanks and I liked your comment so much, I had to hit the heart reaction ♥️ 😊🙏✨✨✨

[@uniqdzign2]

Just taken up drawing and painting again at 75, after a life of being a graphic designer and digital artist. Your tips Florent, are excellent, so much so I've subscribed! Thank you.

[@lindadavidson1389]

Wouldn't call it cheating. I'd call it being accurate. Appreciate the helpful tips you explained throughout your video.

[@OkieSketcher1949]

What a great way to lay out proportions, common intercepts between what you are trying to draw with what you are drawing. This idea never occurred to me yet it was right there for me to see and utilize. Great class! Thank you for this. I really enjoyed following your class and I actually learned something useful.

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Thank you so much 😀

[@mathieuvart]

You improved a lot your english. Tu es un bon professeur. Merci de partager tes connaissances.

This, for sure, would be an awesome class as always! Thanks, Florent!

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Thanks 😊🙏

[@59jaguar]

Perfect timing for this video. Struggling with blowing up a portrait from a small photo and just not having any luck. Now I’ll draw out in scale on paper first then use that for canvas transfer . Thanks for tip

[@richardsong8]

I've been away from the atelier (ARA Toronto) for years. Thank you for the welcome reminder. I will set-up a Bargue, a Hogarth or a Fechin as a model, and do a 'size-as' study. Excellent way to remove the "block"!

[@stucker3188]

Great video Flo. This technique is excellent.

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Thank you! 😊🙏🎨

[@jacdegjadgy8125]

Thanks you for your lessons or teaching. Very interesting.

[@RafaelBeckel]

That’s so cool to hear! I kind of developed this method intuitively in life drawing sessions and never actually called it a “method”. It’s so effective that feels like cheating! One big advantage is that it’s easy to fit the model in the paper. When I’m downscaling or upscaling with a short time constraint, I tend to make the model bigger than the drawing area. With this 1:1 method, it’s nearly impossible to mess the composition up.

[@FlorentFargesarts]

I like methods that make complicated things so easy they feel like cheating 😉everything should be like that!

[@onetruetroy]

Terrific video. Drawing faces is challenging for me and I must always have a subject or image to sketch. When was in elementary school I was frustrated because my project was to draw Washington and Lincoln from the dollar bill and penny. After 20 minutes I was getting no where and crossed my eyes just for effect. That’s my technique. I move the subject, canvas and my position until they are side by side. I look at the subject with my right eye then cross my eyes until the left eye has the canvas in view. I then hold my breath and quickly trace over the image superimposed on the blank surface. That gives me proportional outlines and major reference points in the correct places on the canvas. I let my eyes relax and have a an almost perfect scaled version. It’s weird and I don’t know if others have discovered this. Throughout elementary and high school I would sketch a quick portrait of friends. I wasn’t that interested in creating art because I liked science, math and computers more. I’ve also used a pantograph with photos sometimes. On occasion I use tracing paper. Being creative sometimes means being creative with methods. Cheating is relative and what about Vermeer’s method?

[@Jay34k]

That was a nice run-down on how the brain works when measuring at different scales, I had no idea. And as someone who's been making good use of grids for measuring, I know that being overly dependant on these rulers could turn into a crutch, so I try to keep that in mind.

[@edbianchi8839]

Thank you Florent, most useful video, very practical and honest

[@kristiLB93]

Thank you so much for this video!! I'm training on my own and have been for years. Thank you, this absolutely helps!

[@EllenR654]

This is so helpful, so simple too; thank you for sharing ❤

[@FlorentFargesarts]

You're so welcome!

[@zaugitude]

Lot of great information and techniques, especially the positioning of physical models for sizing.

[@Majjoo06]

This is the method I’ve been using and I’ve been feeling like a cheater for it. Someone told me it wasn’t any better than tracing. 😅 thx for making me feel more valid

[@FlorentFargesarts]

It's a great technique because it ultimately evolves into more spontaneous IRL drawing skills, which tracing doesn't provide.

[@KarciaVLOGG]

I feel the same. I never use this, better do a print lol. But I trained myself to do whatever I want even if I look at small pieces. It’s possible. And now I’m not forced to have a reference photo the same size which can be problematic.

[@bonniewallace2992]

Thanks so much for your generosity! I had an AHA moment.

[@FlorentFargesarts]

You are so welcome!

[@pebblesm6626]

Thank you, you've got a great way of explaining things!

[@bettykayeS]

Thank you so much for sharing this. It has really improved my proportions!

[@celiamuncaster2046]

You are brilliant!

[@leoalvarado6466]

Good advice, you make it look easy! Thank you 😊

[@greggoreo6738]

Bravo! Did you invent that? terrific!

[@petehotoff3715]

Good tips for beginners, I will put my thumb up, 👍

[@astronaut6905]

It really helps a lot!!! thankssss!!!

[@krahnjp]

I think fractional dividers are almost always a bad idea for enlargement. If you're measurement is off, even a fraction of a mm, the divider will enlarge that mistake just as much as it enlarges the image. Much better for reducing, but, just like you said, it's generally easy enough to just move the model farther away to reduce it.

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Same thing, never really liked prop dividers.

[@Toto-NaoWinter]

Thank you for sharing this method !

[@FlorentFargesarts]

You are so welcome!

[@eldelatristefigura1]

You're the man!! Thanks.

[@PanGrothaus]

Great video dude!

[@juicedgoose]

I have the same headphones! Super comfy

[@dsmith9572]

Start at 8 minutes, that's when he does.

[@njmccormackgmail]

That's Florent. Thank you!

[@PoisonJackalArt]

Tbh id have watched the whole vid no worries if I hadnt seen this comment first. Made me feel impatient 🤔

[@annabelcleare138]

The info in the earlier part is also relevant and helped me too.

[@MrPanetela]

would it be appropriate to use the term "cheating" when describing the actions of bees, horses, and eagles in their natural behaviors. I marvel at the mysterious process of drawing and acknowledge; there are no strict rules in art, and yet pondering how one can create without follow some sort of imagined formula. Ultimately, I think that drawing transcends the concept of cheating.

[@kathleencommerford9664]

lol ty

[@rubenscasco801]

Thanks Florent, this would be very helpful to me🙏

[@markemark11]

Thank you love your videos

[@elleeo1495]

Great video reminder, Florent!

[@santone1849]

Great information , Thank you

[@belladupont6777]

Such great advice, thank you! Plus, I'm obsessed with the colour of that pencil. How pretty ot is! What colour is it please? ❤❤❤

[@april67leo]

I think is Sanguine Medicis /618, brand Conte a Paris

[@belladupont6777]

Thank you! ❤️😁❤️😁

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Conté and Faber Castel Sanguine pencils indeed. There are several shades, I have many!

[@lovelyjubbly4151]

Is that a pastel pencil you are using please and can you tell me what colour it is please. Thank you so much for all you help us. I have also been looking for a perpendicular like you have but don't seem to be able to find one. Maybe I'm not asking the right question on the Internet. Amanda from France 🇫🇷

[@Gis_Harris]

Great video Florent, drawing is so overlooked these days...Side note, are your colour wheels still available anywhere?

[@louisea966]

great video and yay horizontal! thanks Florent

[@FlorentFargesarts]

You're welcome!

[@lisasremnant]

Ta-Da! Thank you!

[@richardswift2330]

I have always used that process

[@wendyhughes2234]

I don't think using a few items like the divider or the level you are speaking of is cheating to get the proportions correct. It is important to correct the proportions, which helps a sketch take shape [and] that improves the overall creation. Thank you for sharing. May Abba Father [God] bless you, your family, and your ministry. Especially in the days that we are living in.

[@oluwagbemigadaniel9860]

Sir what if you have a bigger project

[@mainelymom]

Great ideas!

[@frankderuyck6268]

you made the eyes of the subject closer apart

[@MelukisBebas]

🎉🎉 thx bro make me find what i needed why proposional cant be easy when i turn my neck.

[@gidkideon]

If you're doing a portrait do you mark with tape on the floor the position of your easel when it requires more than one sitting? If the model is seated do you sit as well or raise the model up?

[@timclayton8214]

Excellent video, thanks

[@FlorentFargesarts]

You are welcome!

[@patricklestrange9006]

Do one on measuring angles.

[@mc_va]

I call this✨AIR TRACING✨ not cheating of course 😎 you try to retain the original image when looking at your own drawing

[@rachel18809]

The most simplest answer is usually the best but often forgotten.

[@nickrodis6862]

Salamat po

[@sylvain_st_pierre_2019]

Très bon merci !

[@daniellorena6267]

Hi there, can you tell me where did you find that skull?

[@colourkingdom]

Art shop?

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Weird: this skull was a money box from urban outfitters 7 years ago, it was glittered and golden 😅I painted it white ! Try Fountainhead gypsoteca or Atelier Lorenzi, Paris for great casts!

[@daniellorena6267]

@@FlorentFargesarts I am in Portugal and you wont believe how much i´ve been looking for one skull anatomical correct. Tks for your information Florent, great video by the way

[@bozoclown2098]

I thought I'd that but never used it , I made my own Tool

[@mirekm2043]

use a grid like many artists

[@shuvoDhar.5537]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@AnthonyGeorge-w2t]

Need a top heavy hairstyle ?

[@richardsorge-]

Thank You. After this video I am SURE drawing is not for me.

[@kevinhardy8997]

I think most of us use ipad photos so this is not possible

[@leelee6850]

This has confused me thoroughly

[@francischataigner9454]

y nous font chier les americains!