Quick Sharpie sketch of H. P. Lovecraft, deliberately trying to focus on the shape and proportions of the head, with the sketchpad held up at a good angle on my knee. Since there are few good pictures of Lovecraft, I took this still from a Rick Roll of Lovecraft generated by deep learning:
Comparing the proportions by matching the eyes, noes and mouth, it doesn’t seem too terrible, though I have trouble really believing the size of people’s ears and misjudge the chin. But the hair is off, so once again, this means I’ve put the facial features slightly in the wrong place:
Trying to match the hair, chin, and width of face, it appears that I’m less than a percent off in my overall head proportions, which is great; but that does confirm I am still putting facial features in the wrong place in the face, and that’s a trickier problem to resolve without doing it lots and lots of times to get it right.
So, practice, practice, practice: by drawing every day.
-the Centaur
