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Hey! First of all, thank you so much 💜

To be honest, I've struggled with colors, perspective and body proportions way more than with portraits and I've been drawing faces since I remember (argh I hate how cheesy this sounds but I hope you get me faces are just my lil special interest😅) so I never followed tutorials that closely. It defenitely also helps that I use a reference (especially with more detailed portraits) - I think that's my number 1 advice, use references xD

What also helps me for more 'accurate' realism is drawing a portrait from reference and then layering it above the reference and see how it differs and correcting that. And usually, before I draw a face, I look at what makes the face unique, and try to capture that (for example, with the Daniel Molloy portrait it's the little dents in his nose and his bigger ears and the very prominent structures around his mouth, with Dean Winchester it's his nose being just the tiniest bit crooked and the very prominent nostrils and ( )- like shape around his nose as well as how the shadow of his eyes connects with his eyebrows and ofc those beautiful cheekbone and the chin being just a little pointy (can you tell I am obsessed with looking at his face 🧍)).

I try to look at the planes and geometrical shapes of the face, so when I paint I start with a very rough 3D sketch of what the shadow and light planes are and then add more and more details to them (idk if that makes sense if I describe it because words are hard but otherwise I def have step by step process stuff on my Patreon where you can see it ^^').

For tutorials I didn't really look at books that much actually but I know I watched this video a while ago about the Loomis-Method (and the good ol' circle that gets added to and then gets rotated in space with guidelines never gets old tbh):

as well as a lot of SamDoesArts and Proko videos (and Marc Brunet but Marc Brunet was more about bodies and proportions):

but honestly I think the advice that personally helped me the most is 1. to think of a face as a three-dimensional object instead of lines and then look how big or small those planes and shapes are in the person that I want to draw 2. to always go from big to small when carving and layering a face and 3. to look at how people are drawing with charcoals to construct faces because that painting process is not just extremely calming, it also shows how you can correct mistakes more easily and how the three-dimensionality of a face also helps to construct light and shadows on that face.

And for likeness in particular it's use references and also zoom out when you draw to see what feels right or 'off' :3

I hope I made sense because I am no professional and I am also a messy artist and I don't want to pretend that I am better than I am sdhfkfhdjksfdhk

Again thank you and I hope my yapping makes sense 💜

it was love