Hey, guys. Welcome to Proko.
My name is Stan Prokopenko. I'm going to be showing you how
to take a drawing that you did and compare it with a photograph on your iPad in
procreate so that you can check your accuracy and increase that the speed of your feedback loop and
improve faster. So I did this drawing demo in my Drawing Basics course, proko.com/drawing and I had
a very focused approach on measuring and accuracy, and I showed you guys my strategy for
how I would approach defining my units, taking measurements and angles and all that to
get a drawing that is as accurate as possible.
We went through how to get good line quality.
We're going into shapes. We're going to learn intuitive perspective, values and edges so
that you can shade form. From there, you can go into all of your all the other disciplines
like perspective, concept art, all that stuff. So that's again, over at proko.com/drawing.
After you're done with the layin and you think you've made it as accurate as you can.
Now you can check yourself to get instant feedback. We don't always have access to
an instructor whose eyeballs we can borrow, but most of us have access to a camera and a
computer. A really important part of improving your observation skills is increasing the speed
and frequency of feedback. I used to do this a lot, so I have this drawing here.
I'm going to take a photo with my iPad, bring it into procreate. Okay. So the first
thing to do is to take a photo of your drawing. Make sure you're taking it straight
down. There's no distortion. And make sure, like the vertical edges of your page are vertical
and then the horizontal are actually horizontal. There's no warping. So straight down.
Also would be nice if you have it in a place where there's good lighting. If it's a sunny
day, go outside and go in the shade. Well, actually, you could do it in the sun,
too. It doesn't matter in for paintings. You go in the shade. All right, So I got my
photo. You could see how straight it is.
Up and down, left to right. And then it's pretty
flat. It's darker at the bottom than at the top, but it's good enough. Now we're going to go
to procreate import, depending on where you saved it. First of all, I got my photograph,
the reference, okay and then I want to add the photo of my drawing on a separate layer.
And the way to do that, press the wrench, insert a photo, select that latest photo that I took,
and it's import it. Tap the little blue arrow up here. It sets it. Now I want to see it on top. So
if I go into layers and I click this little “N”. Right now, this is the blend mode and it’s just
normal, which it just displays it like that.
I want to go to multiply, which is the first
one. Now I can see both my drawing and my photo, but it's not positioned properly. And it's also
really difficult to see my lines because so much of the shadows of the photo are kind of hiding
my lines. So the way I showed you guys before in Photoshop was to make it a mask and
then paste the photo into the mask.
You could do a very similar thing here. So I
want to copy the drawing and I'm going to paste it into a layer mask. And the way to do that is
make sure you have your drawing layer selected and then go into the wrench. Copy. ta-da. So now
we're going to create a new layer and fill it.
And the way to fill it is just to drag this red.
You can choose whatever color you want, but drag it over and it fills the entire layer with red.
Now I want to add a layer mask to that red layer. So I click it and select mask. So now I have a
mask that's associated with this red layer.
So make sure the layer mask is selected. Not this
one, but this one is selected. And then you go to the wrench and paste. The black and white of the
lines are acting as a mask to the red, but we need to invert it because it's actually all the paper,
the white stuff is being applied to the red.
So you click on the layer and invert and there you
go. Now you can see it's not perfect because a lot of this stuff in here had a lot of value. There’s
a shadow on the paper. So we can adjust, we can push the contrast a little bit with some curves.
So again, with the layer mask selected, click the wand right here and then select curves.
And then you can push these curves however you want. To make it a little bit of an
“S”. So bring these down, bring this up, something like that. And your drawing is going to
be a little bit different. You might need to push the curves a little bit differently from mine.
It really just depends. But I also want to hide this original drawing that I had here.
So now I have all the layers figured out correctly. I just need to scale my drawing to
fit better on top of the photo so I can actually check the proportions that I drew. So I'm going
to make this a little bit smaller. And again, with the correct layer selected, go to this
cursor, make sure it's in uniform down here so that I'm not distorting or warping it.
I want it to stay in the same ratio no matter what I'm doing, because I don't want to distort
my actual proportions that I drew. I enlarge it until I'm seeing things that are like the
right size, I'm lining like the chin. Okay, I think this is pretty close. I mean,
it's never going to be perfectly aligned unless you drew a perfect drawing.
So you kind of have to just pick a few of your major marks that you took, like the bottom
of the chin, the forehead where the hair ends. Like these are the major points that I measured
first. And everything in between will just be a little bit off. So I click that again. And now
you can zoom in and see where things were off.
And this is where you now just study it, see
why did you make these mistakes? How could you have avoided them? And this quick feedback that
you could give yourself is extremely useful. You don't have to wait for an instructor to tell
you where your mistakes were. You can just do these at home. You can do five of them in a
day and get that feedback really quickly and develop that intuition for an accurate eye.
So kind of funny. I thought this whole time that the nose was off, it was off, and then I fixed
it. I moved it up. But a big thing that I didn't notice that was off was actually the eyes are
kind of higher up. They’re like a full eye, higher than they're supposed to be. And
that is also adding to that effect of the nose being farther away from the eyes.
And I just totally didn't catch that. Another thing that I was considering for a while was
I just felt like the neck wasn't long enough. The neck is almost perfect, but the shoulders
are smaller. You see how I brought it in and they’re higher up and that makes the neck feel
thicker and shorter. If I drop the shoulder a little bit and widen it in comparison,
the neck is going to feel smaller.
Also, the shape of the lip is just totally off
here, so I just misjudged the few angles. The flowers you can see are completely off
because I just like threw them in very quickly. But that doesn't matter. The hair
pretty accurate, even though it doesn't matter too much either. But it's pretty accurate.
All these angles really close anyway.
I hope that helps. It's slightly different
process in procreate a little more clunky I think. If you do most of your drawing and your
editing in in procreate instead of Photoshop, you should probably know how to do that. It's also
a lot easier just to take the photo on your iPad, so I hope that was useful. Again,
this is a demo from the Drawing Basics course over at proko.com/drawing.
You can enroll at any point, go your own pace proko.com/drawing, get that good foundation.
And if you're somebody who is more intermediate, I have two levels of every single project
in this course so that if you're tuning up your fundamentals, if you're trying to
just refine them, you can still go through the entire course with a slightly more difficult
project while still practicing the fundamentals. To everybody who already has premium.
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guys so much. Appreciate you, see ya next time.
