If any of you have attempted this, I can help you personally through notes or MSN or whatnot. Just send me an image link of it and I can help you out. My MSN is on my main page.

Alright, let's get started.

There are a few things to understand about drawing here - practice your ass off. Very few people get things very quickly or at the first or second try. You need to have a good steady hand, and even better, a good 'flicking' movement down.

Now, the drawing I've decided to do here is just a random female face, drawn at one of the most common angles. The good thing about this is that it blankets all my points, so if you understand all the crap I'll be throwing out here, you can apply this to side views or front views. Now, let's get started.

1 This is the basic guideline I use. You start off with an ellipse, then drawn a line down the middle. Depending on where they are looking and how much to the side they are, you either shift it left or right, and it also dictates how much you curve it. Putting a line from where the center line and the point on the ellipses connects to center of the line dictating the jaw line will also help. The center of the ellipses will have a circle and a line that curves down - that'll be your neck.

2 The shape of the face is the most difficult to do. If you can get that, then you just need to practice eyes for a bit and you're set. The shape of the head is a bit of trial and error sometimes. Many people like curving the edge of their lines back to the eyes, but if you're going to have hair there, you don't need to do that. You just follow the guideline until you reach about halfway from your chin to your eye, and then draw a slight bulge for your cheeks. Your other cheek, however, will be where the guideline for the jaw and the guideline for the neck meet. When doing front or side views, you don't have to worry too much.

3 This is just a neck and a shoulder addition. I think I drew my neck a little thin.

4 Oho, the eyes. Eyes at a side-glance like the ones here are the only ones that can cause problems. Some people say that you need to keep them level, but I find that it makes the face look very emotionless and unresponsive. Tilting the eyes a little bit gives off a livelier expression, and the only time I really use level eyes is where I end up with the character staring at eye level to yours or from where you're viewing from a higher angle.

The eye that is closer to you is simple to draw, but the eye that is farther from your can confuse some people. It's just the same eye though thinner and slightly angled. That's all it is. For example, there's a colour coded diagram of the eyes and the direction I do them in - I did the red first, then the green, then the blue. Some like doing the blue after the red, but you can run into sclera that are too large for the eye.

5 The nose and the mouth are fairly easy, though the mouth can provide some problems if you're careless. For the nose, make sure it never goes further than the center guideline for the face. At a side glance, a normal nose can be drawn slightly steeper than a perpendicular line to the guideline. The mouth, if doing breaks in the lip, shouldn't intersect with the center guideline. Personally, I don't know why, but it gives me weird results.

6 You can add in any details, since by now it should be fairly fine.

7 I have a unique way to draw the hair, so bear with me. Instead of using lines like most people prefer to use, I use triangles ( >.> ). Of course, it doesn't give you a proper gauge for waviness or things like that, but it does give you a good mental image, and it compliments the normal 'line' method. So, I suggest that you return to your center of the ellipses and draw lines emerging from there. This will give you consistent hair so it doesn't go all over the place (unless you want it to). Of course, you don't have to have the origin of the hair in the center of the ellipses - you can move it to wherever you want. Moving the location of the center will result in very different hairstyles.

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I hope you guys get something from this, at least. I don't know.