Hi /ic/.
I'm drawing and painting basically my whole life and I'm pretty good at it. Anyway, I noticed that I fuck a lot of my paintings up because my drawings have absolute shit tier proportion. It's easier for me to keep proportions straight when I'm drawing on a very small space, but when the space gets larger (even DIN A4 is difficult when I'm actually trying to fill it), I just fuck things up. Now, my usual approach would be to try harder, but I'm 100% self taught, so I guess there may be more systematic approaches out there that I'm not aware of.
Tl;dr: How to get proportions right in my sketches?
>>2311739
draw the whole loosely, look at it from afar, correct the proportions.
>>2311744
>look at it from afar
This. Use the navigator window in photoshop, or if you work traditionally step back and view it across the room.
>>2311739
>I'm drawing and painting basically my whole life and I'm pretty good at it
>my drawings have absolute shit tier proportion
Heh.
As for your more systematic approaches: read sticky.
One thing I've noticed from practice and that's been reinforced by my teachers is that when you get that feeling that something isn't quite right but you can't see it, you absolutely need to get up and walk away from your piece and do something else to get your mind off of it, even if you just go for a 10min walk.
One teacher even suggested only working on a piece for an hour or two per day, spread out over a long period of time. Obviously not the best method for a production environment but for a hobbyist or a student with multiple projects they can juggle it's a very good method.
If it's a human just remember the golden rule: head goes about 6 times in the whole body
I made this myself earlier today, it's not perfect but it is what it is.
>>2311739
>good at it
>shit tier proportions
Make up your mind
>>2311983
>>2311989
... Use google image search.
>>2311997
and this
>>2311989
Women generally are at 7 to 7.5 heads tall. If you were making a heroic figure like Wonder Woman or something she'd be 8 heads tall or so. It's not really always the same and changes depending on the syle (western/anime) and what kind of figure you want to make, but 7 to 7.5 is the most pleasing proportions for most females.
>>2312062
^ Meant to say top half of thigh not top 1/3
Have you tried using cranial units?
>>2312062
looks off
>>2311739
There's a program called makehuman, it's good at that. However relying on it will always make you a pleb.
>>2311739
Here are some simple facts to get you going
>The estimated average height for the human female across the world is approximately 5ft 3 in (1.60 m.)
>6 feet / 1.83 cm is exactly 8 heads
>Average human head is 22.5 cm in length (dr. Richer)
That would make the average woman proportions at 7 heads, anything above that would be considered tall.
