Hey there! I think you're off to a good start with your guidelines and construction of the head, it's just mostly the placement of the features that could be tweaked a bit. For the first guideline across the face, you have the brow placement already, but it seems too compressed and close with the eyes, that giving them more space and placing the eyes further down would help. The second guideline will have the nose. The bottom portion seems pretty good with the mouth/jaw proportion, just keep in mind to continue the perspective that the rest of the guidelines follow. Hope this helps! :)

Looking good! You have some solid construction that already gives a good impression of 3-dimensionality. The thing I'd recommend is rounding out the edge furthest from the viewer, as that slight curve better fits the perspective of the rest of the features. With the side of his head visible, and the eyes/nose/mouth facing left, the side of his head furthest away will look smaller as it turns away.

Well done

It will work, go back to the 3D model and rotate the Loomis head just like this.

Hi @May Berry, nice drawings! I'll do my best to help you further :) - The proportion vary between the attempts (the second one looks like and improvement 😎👍), so I'll try to give some tips on proportion: It helps me a lot to relate everything to one thing in the subject. When you draw the figure for example, it's common to relate everything to the head's lenght (the upper body is four head lenghts for example). You could do a similar thing when drawing any subject. Yesterday I drew a landscape with a house. I started with a line that represented the lenght of one side of the slanted roof, then with each line and measurement I added, I related back to this line. You could try something similar for the lay-in of the silhouette of the head (see attached images). When you have the overall shape of the head, showing the construction with a loomis head might be a nice next step. Doing one thing at a time, has helped me a lot. Focusing on form, proportion, gesture, line weight etc. all at the same time can make you lose focus. If you draw the figure for example, it might be a good idea to first draw to describe what the subject is doing (the gesture), then on the next layer establish proportion and placement, then on the next focus on getting the shapes accurate. This was just an example; it doesn't necessarily have to be in that order. And the more skilled you get the more you might be able to do at the same time, but you want to work in a way that allows your thinking to stay clear. As inspiration: here's an example where animator Glen Keane works in two steps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA7Naf0RF4M&t=9s I hope this helps :) Let me know if you have any questions!

The first image finds the rhythm from the chin through the zygomatic process, the part of the zygomatic bone that reaches towards the top of the jaw. The 3D model doesn't account for that. Strictly speaking, Andrew Loomis doesn't add that rhythm in his explanation of his method. That rhythm is something Stan learned somewhere and he adds it when he does/teaches the Loomis method. I learned it from Stan's explanation, and find it incredibly useful. The one little swoop helps define the side plane of the jaw and the placement of the zygomatic arch. It gets you a step closer to being able to find the planes of the head.

Nice! I wish the right eye from this angle was better explained in the tutorial. Always hard to draw for me.

Hi @Rebecca Brown, nice drawing! I attached a paintover with some tips 😎👍 Cheers!

can you 'outline' the orginal circle in your drawing? I use images I find on the net but am lost as to where to draw the original circle. in samples, sometimes it ends at nose and other times it touches the lips.