Ever since I tried "Blind Contour Drawing" (Tracing the outline of a thing with your eye and pencil, but not looking at your paper), I've been taken with simple contours. The blind drawings were disjointed miseries. Partly Blind Contour Drawing--peeking every once in a while--works better. And is a super trainer of the perception when it is a "Good-eyed Drawing."
Here's a simple face. (It took me a while to dare faces in this direct way, and another while to get one that wasn't from Outer Limits.) This is a pic of a woman in a winter coat and scarf. On the original--an add for the coat--her nose and face were about the same tone. So I left her nose out.
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A good face - it would seem to me that the more extreme the viewing angle, the more difficult the proportions. Then again, I can't even draw a face straight on (yet), so I could be mistaken.
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