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5:34 AM, Tuesday April 19th 2022

It is obvious that you do put in a lot of effort. If you try to construct the head out of basic 3D shapes first, you can get a far better threedimensional impression across. There are some excellent free videos made by Proko on YouTube on portrait drawing that explain the method and what to look out for when drawing the nose, eyes, ears, mouth, etc. Really helped me when I found them. Just search for „proko portrait“ on YouTube or their website and you will find a series of videos by them.

11:51 PM, Friday April 22nd 2022

thanks! i will look into them

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