Today's Art Tip is about drawing the head in perspective, and some shorthands to hopefully make that a little easier.
Re: foreshortening a jaw that very intentionally stylistically ends in a point.
Unfortunately, sharp chins, especially the shorthand you see in most manga and anime, are a stylistic shorthand that don't naturally occur in real life. Even if they did, sharp chins are a rendering of the front of the lower mandible. For an upturned face, we are looking at and trying to believably convey the UNDERSIDE of that lower mandible, which is a completely different shape.
(Keep in mind that build and fat distributions add a bunch of variables that looking at bones don't account for.)
So my advice for different chin sizes is to focus more on the shape and curve of the underside of the lower mandible.
Anyway I commissioned a friend for a doll head that has a pointed chin so I went ahead and took some pics of it (keep in mind that it has asymmetrical eyes)
