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Re: Portrait Practice

Reply #10 on: March 24, 2011, 10:27:02 pm
Why not just trace the darn thing?

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Re: Portrait Practice

Reply #11 on: March 24, 2011, 10:38:25 pm
Tracing wont make your hand eye coordination any better I don't think. You have to train your eye to see proportions properly and your hand to reproduce them. Blind contour drawing is also a good way to do this.
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