Alllrighty. I got a tablet, and decided to learn, for once, how to draw faces, and draw them well. This is, more or less, my first ever attempt at a realistic face without direct reference. That's not in the least bit true, but I say it anyways, because I never have finished a face, or not at least to a decent quality.

Edited by Saboteur - 28 September 2006 at 12:59am

Hahahaha, okay. I'm gonna resist the temptation to try justify things, and take a closer look at some references. Thanks for the comments, I'll see if I can salvage this 'un.

Alrighty, I've had a crack at everything mentioned, to the best of my understanding. Anything there is open for criticism, with the exception of the strange H or W (Even -I- don't know) at the bottom.

Edited by Saboteur - 25 September 2006 at 4:00pm

could you post an animation-like step by step gif of how you create something like this? it'd help me help you a lot i think.

Updating well so far Sab. Now i think you could do with widening the bottom of the nose slightly, or at least making the line defining it a little less bold. Also, fill in the entire top-right with hair, and basically most of above her forehead, or it looks like her head is very flat. Coming along well though, good luck!

It's looking better. I agree the eyes seem too far apart. I think bring her left eye close to the right might help and also, that left eye looks very recessed, I'd bring it out a bit more.

i actually meant the setup before the 1st image you posted here, when you block in shapes or make skeletons and stuff

Indeed, Aleiav. Lately I've been trying to... well, in truth I write every day, not draw, BUT yarr. I shall draw more and more often. I think the problem with that is before I even start, I see myself at the end going "Yaay. It's my printer." void of any emotion whatsoever. So I don't do it, simply.

And snader, that doesn't exist as a saved file. I made a circle, and egged out the rest of the head, really. Then I stuck her left eye in and started going from there, using a number of different references. That's the earliest file I have of this, sadly.

The spacing of ther eyes looks better, and now that she's coming together a bit more, I have to say that her eyes look too big relative to the lower half of her face. I think, working with those eyes, her nose should be longer, and the mouth and jaw area needs some lengthening and filling out too.

The ear, while not bad in shape, is too small for her head. The ear should be roughly the same size as the distance between the eyes and the mouth, so at least 50% bigger.

At this point, I can't really say is it's a problem with the way you've draw the ear, or the way you've drawn the head around it, but it has a rather flat, pasted on to the side of her head kind of look to it.

Please, please get rid of that scribbled in hair, and instead, give the top of her skull some shape and volume. Her head from the eyes up seems really short and squashed. I think if you fix that up it will really help with stuff like placement of the ear and the proportions of her lower face.