

The first thing is you'll feel great that you can actually draw an average head from memory from any angle, because that in itself is a tremendous ability! The second thing that will happen is you'll get the average head ingrained into your mind, so that when you look at somebody, you'll instantly see how that person you're looking at is different from your average head.

Then do it 10 more times! Once you can draw the head from memory from any angle, then start working on the facial features.ĭrawing the average head along with Proko until you can draw them from any angle on your own, from memory, will accomplish at least two main things.

Then do it again and again and again, until you're so sick of drawing the same head from the same angle that you're sure that YOUR head is going to explode and your hand is going to fall off if you do it one more time. You should follow along and start and stop these videos and draw what Proko is drawing. Once you can draw an average head from any angle, from memory, and they all look pretty much like the same person, you'll be 75% there. Time spent watching the videos on this page and the Proko Facial Features page, will be likely the most valuable time you will spend. The Proko videos I've included on this website will be the foundation and the driving force of your progress as a caricature artist. In 2007 he became a teacher at the Watts Atelier of the Arts and has taught drawing and painting classes on numerous topics such as portrait, figure, quick sketch, and plein air. After attending the Watts Atelier for many years, his focus shifted from animation to fine art painting. He wrote an article on animation for Imagine Magazine at Johns Hopkins University and created a five minute animated short film, "A Game of Pool", which featured on all American Airlines flights in September through December of 2004.In 2003, he began studying at the Watts Atelier of the Arts in Encinitas, California, where he got most of his arts training. During high school, he got an internship at Sony Online Entertainment to animate for the upcoming video game, Everquest II. Since then he has devoted his life to the arts. At the age of 13, he pronounced himself as a lifelong student of art. Stan Prokopenko was born in Odessa, Ukraine and came to America at the age of six.
