So, I found a site where someone has compiled pdfs of Andrew Loomis' books, they're pretty good for beginners as they go through all the basics of drawing the human figure.
As drawing heads/faces is one of the many things I am no good at I picked up the "Drawing the head & hands" book and went through it. In honesty it helped me quite a bit, so far I only got up to drawing the male head so I practiced with more masculine features. I should probably free study time for drawing each day but whenever I go out to do things like daily challenged they dwindle out pretty early on so I will not promise myself anything or make grand plans, I'll just doodle and more importantly - try to memorize and understand what I'm doing.
If anyone is interested: here is the link to the pdfs!
An assortment of rough sketches and two final practice drawings. Obviously I'm far from good and god knows when I'll be able to capture the likeness of a person (references used for last two drawings) but eh, I'll try. I think I need to do individual studies on eyes and noses, eyes especially. Eyes are really hard to draw because they have incredible detail but at the same time are a small speck in the general composition.
I suppose the biggest challenge will be memorizing all the fundamentals and then building a style upon that, my art style is a weird blend of stylized pseudo-realism with weird anime eyes. At least to me the eyes look like anime trying to be realistic. It's weird but maybe it is just me.
I have this issue when the drawing looks kinda ok when I do it and when I've finished it but when I scan it and post it everything looks bad.
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