So before we begin, I wanted to talk about comparative measuring to introduce you to some of the measuring techniques that we'll be using to get our drawing accurately proportioned. So get out to long thin handled brushes. And we'll be using both of the brushes to do the measuring. You can also use a knitting needle which works really well too. So the first one I want everyone to do along with me is on your source photo, align the bottom of the brush with the tear duct and slide your thumbnail up to the bottom of the chin. Now hold that and move the whole thing up so that now your thumbnail is aligned with the tear duct.

And you can look at the top of the brush and see where it's aligning to. Since my head is tilted slightly down in the photo, the bottom of the brush is just in from the top of my head. We're basically checking to see how centered The eyes are on on the head and a lot of the time they'll be fairly centered on the head. The next measurement that I want to Want to take and do this along with me is a line the bottom of the fresh at the top of the head and slide your thumbnail up to the bottom of the chin to get the vertical height of the head. And now turn the whole thing horizontal. And you'll be comparing the height of the head compared to the width.

And as you can see, the width of my head is just slightly under what the height of my head is. Now my favorite measurement is what I refer to as the thirds. So there's three equal thirds from the bottom of the nose to the bottom of the chin, from the bottom of the nose to the eyebrow line and from the eyebrows line to the hair line. There's also an additional space at the top of the head which is usually just under one third. So to check these one third measurements, I want everyone to align the bottom of the brush at the bottom of the nose. It's like a thumbnail up to the bottom of the chin.

Hold that and move the whole thing up. So now your thumbnail is aligned at the bottom. Notice and as you can see, the top of the brush aligns with the eyebrow line. Hold that again and move the whole thing up and align the thumbnail with the eyebrow line. And you'll see that the bottom of the brush is aligned with the hairline and then check to see what the ratio is of the last top measurement. Remember to definitely leave some space for the hair at the top.

But typically it's just a little bit under from one of the one third measurements in this case I would say about three quarters the height of the other one there