Still Demo on Drawing Faces
When I am drawing faces, I always lay in very lightly the whole form of the face as shown here below, tryimg to establish as solid understructure as possible without spending much time.

Then and only when I feel solid about the understructure or the "lay-in", I began placing the features, such as inserting the eye into the eye socket as shown here in this pencil drawing lay-in, as a sculptor would start inserting an eyeball into the eyesocket hole he have built for the head,

I continued to place the other features over the light lay-ins, pressing and releasing the pencil as I go, controlling the values (lightness and darkness),keepin all the technical aspects into consideration, the shapes, values, contours, design, etc.

continuing the same thing, placing features, hairlines, giving more definition and form to the facial surface, etc.

I continued outward indicating the hair to finish things off, as if a sculptor would lastly place the hair loosely on top of the solid head he has created.

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