/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>5083200
>>5083190
not them, but theyre right

how do i start a fucking portrait? I somehow drew this like a year ago and im trying to draw another since but it just looks like garbage

i have no idea how to organize what im doing or where to even start

i "draw the shapes" in the values theyre in but the proportions end up so fucked it looks horrible so im clearly not doing something right

should i be using line drawings first? doesnt that make it look cartoony? how do you even capture it correctly with lines without it looking even worse, i spent 3 hours just fucking with greys and erased it because it looked completely off when i made the source material greyscale