Well I thought I would post this to show something I made up recently. Maybe it might help you as well. So basically I took a screen shot of the female face from posemaniacs and drew over it with a basic round brush (size set to pressure as well as opacity) outlining the major parts of the face. Now the drawing on the left is a drawing I did from my “imagination” using my scribble on the right as my reference. Notice how I changed the position of the face as well. I did not want to simply copy my anatomy helper but use it in order to give me a better sense to what I am doing.

- Another program you can use is facegen

Not really needed per say since this exercise is more about using the landmarks but if you want to change it up or experiment with different head shapes (If you find yourself getting stale) it seems like a cool program.

- For my self critique I think my ears and my forehead/back head area need the most work. So now in my future studies I will be looking at those areas more carefully. Ta-Da! a mini-tutorial of sorts that I made. Also I doubt this exercise is original. I’m sure someone else has made this up but I was never taught it. So new to me!

PS: During the time I drew my little character I did not remove the blue lines from my reference. The idea is not to copy how the head looks exactly but really to create a life like person from it.

PPS: This in no way replaces life drawing. I recommend a balance between life drawing and anatomy studies, simply doing anatomy studies makes it more difficult to draw life like people or individual looking people from your imagination.