Let me show you how to draw in proportion with this proportional divider. I have a tea cup, this table in my shadow, and I'm about four feet away from it. You want to be as close as possible without being underneath the still life light. You need to be out here under the studio light, but I'm about four feet away. I have this yarn hanging down, and the yarn is exactly in the spot where my chair is in my comfortable spot over the tape on the floor. I've already determined all this. This is where I want to be sitting when I'm painting and when I'm looking at my still life. So I've already positioned my chair perfectly on the floor relative to my canvas. And once I've done that and I've put a piece of tape underneath the center of it, then the next thing is with my arm straight and my shoulders square, this is where the yarn is. Okay, so this is where you have to position yourself in your chair first. Hold your arm out and then determine where this yarn should hang. So there it is. It's exactly if my arm is straight lines up exactly right. Okay, so that's where I'm going to take all my measurements from. Okay, and the screw is in the right hole. Before you even start penciling, you have to determine where the screw is going to go, and I've got it there so it will magnify my cup a certain amount, which if I measure the height of my cup like that, it gives me a cup that's going to be about that big on my canvas, which is bigger than life-size, but that's okay. I like to be a little bigger than life-size, but...
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