Hi there. I know this will sound like heresy to some but if you are having trouble with proportions a very good exercise is tracing. Yes, TRACING. By tracing (from photographs or illustrations) you will gain muscle-memory for proper proportions - of the head, body, or whatever is giving you trouble. It will build up your observational skills by making you aware of things in the reference that you were glossing over before. Your eyes (and brain) will also be trained to see and feel the shapes of things. Try tracing a reference, then attempt drawing the reference freehand. And then repeat. It will take time but your mind and your muscles will learn from this type of exercise. Eventually you will be able to move on from tracing and more confidently draw freehand. Of course, knowing anatomy goes hand-in-hand with this approach. It's very useful to KNOW what you're tracing and to understand the dimensional forms. But it's also a bit of the chicken-and-egg thing - which comes first,, right? Knowledge of proportions or knowledge of the forms/anatomy. Really though, you kind of learn them both at the same time. Knowledge of the one will inform the other and eventually you'll have enough pencil milage that they'll naturally blend together. Check out this youtube video from illustrator Neal Adams on the subject of tracing and its use by famed painters and illustrators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_M-AVtlJdg Hope this is of some help :-) Cheers!

Remember that there's usually about one eye's distance between the two eyes.

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Hello, I'm not an expert, but hopefully I can help. My first thought is proportions - mainly the eyes. Your eyes tend to be disproportionate to the rest of the face; namely too large. When you're practicing portraits - draw large! Don't trap yourself by drawing a head that's two times the size of your thumb then struggle to squeeze in the details. Say if you do want to draw a head two times the size of your thumb, then you're going to have to be very delicate/precise with your details, or just simplify features. My second thought - to help with baby round heads - is to study the planes of the face. If you have a copy of Loomis's "Drawing the Head and Hands" it's the material covered on Page 33. Hopefully this link works as well: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/da/a6/3f/daa63fa5ac5cfd2d64a35a085bf8e388.jpg I recommend studying the planes of the face until you have the planes memorized. There's a lot of art books that'll dedicate maybe 2-3 pages to the planes of the face, but I'm starting to discover myself that the planes of the face are really important to know - especially if you want to start getting into shading.

I think you're nearly there though. It's not wrong for heads to look roundish. But in your case, the problem is that you make the jaws much smaller and shorter than it should. You see, the difference between an adult's and a baby's head is the ratio of cranium (the roundish ball part) and the jaw (the squarish wedge-shaped part). Babies have big craniums and small jaws, while adult have still-bigger-than-babies' cranium, but their jaws have caught up the pace and grown much bigger and taller since. From your works, it seems that you make the bottom part of the jaw in line with the bottom part of the ball. It shouldn't be that way though, Jaws in adults measure almost a half of the ball in height. I have some drawings I made earlier for other users, I hope it can help you to understand this cranium-to-jaw ratio.

Slow down. Follow Loomis' head construction to the letter.