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Before I start on this, I would like to say that I am not a professional, and I am still learning, so my advice is not perfect. Neither are my drawings. The best way to learn to draw people is to study them in real life and from experience.

Alright, well the first thing I noticed was the anatomy. I know you didn't ask for help on that, but proper anatomy could really up the feeling of this picture. The first picture I drew was a head with guidelines. I started with a circle and drew a vertical line down the center. Then I proceeded to draw the jawline. When I first saw your picture I thought he was a female. An easy way to make him seem a bit more masculine is squaring his jaw and chin. Do not use straight lines though. The body is made of curves. No sharp angles, no straight lines. After drawing the jaw line, I drew some lines so I could place his eyes. I place the bottom of his eyes at about the bottom of the circle I made. The curved line you see at the top of his head is his hairline.

On this first picture I added some things that could really help get the feeling you were trying for across. Have you ever looked someone straight in the eyes while crying? If you have, I'm sure you found it was very difficult. People typically look away when crying, so that is what he is doing. Eyes say a lot. They are the windows to the soul after all. His eyebrows in the original were at a very relaxed position, but to convey the correct emotion, I clenched his eyebrows together and raised them.

Now, in the picture next to the first, I drew his hair. Hair has volume, it's poofy, it doesn't fall straight no matter how straight the hair is. I showed you how I would have drawn this particular hairstyle. Just keep in mind that hair tapers and flows. I also showed you how I shade hair in pencil. I don't always do this, but I feel it helps get the general idea of the direction of the hair across. The last picture of his head shows the headband. I thought that I would just point out that the hairband under the hair would be a little uncomfortable. Over the hair seems a little more reasonable.

Okay, see the circles? Those show some basic shading. One from the side, the other from the front. To get a moody colour scheme to your drawing, something that helps is shading. Nice dark shading will give a moody feel. Don't be afraid to shade dark.

Alright, now to the random colour scribbles. These show some color and how they shade. With the skin tone, I started out with a nice light colour and shaded with a light brown. The darkest part of the shading is a dark purple. Only use the purple shade for the absolute darkest part. Otherwise, this skin could look unnatural. To make blues darker and sadder feeling, going over them with grey adds a bit of moodiness. When deliberately trying to make a drawing sad, I would steer clear of green. Green is a very happy, relaxed colour. It livens a picture like yours up almost as much as yellow would. I would stick to greys, blues, black, and maybe some purples.

Last but not least, I noticed the eyes you drew seemed kinda weird, so I took the liberty of drawing two sets of eyes at the bottom. If you want a little help on eyes, I have a tutorial kinda thing here rubystone11.deviantart.com/art… I also have a bunch of really good tutorials on just about everything favorited here rubystone11.deviantart.com/fav…

Well, I hope I could be helpful! Sorry for the huge wall of text.

Have a nice day,
Your tired friend,
Ruby Stone

Original --> www.deviantart.com/art/New-OC-…
Artist --> ~Clawanimal

Description
Before I start on this, I would like to say that I am not a professional, and I am still learning, so my advice is not perfect. Neither are my drawings. The best way to learn to draw people is to study them in real life and from experience.

Alright, well the first thing I noticed was the anatomy. I know you didn't ask for help on that, but proper anatomy could really up the feeling of this picture. The first picture I drew was a head with guidelines. I started with a circle and drew a vertical line down the center. Then I proceeded to draw the jawline. When I first saw your picture I thought he was a female. An easy way to make him seem a bit more masculine is squaring his jaw and chin. Do not use straight lines though. The body is made of curves. No sharp angles, no straight lines. After drawing the jaw line, I drew some lines so I could place his eyes. I place the bottom of his eyes at about the bottom of the circle I made. The curved line you see at the top of his head is his hairline.

On this first picture I added some things that could really help get the feeling you were trying for across. Have you ever looked someone straight in the eyes while crying? If you have, I'm sure you found it was very difficult. People typically look away when crying, so that is what he is doing. Eyes say a lot. They are the windows to the soul after all. His eyebrows in the original were at a very relaxed position, but to convey the correct emotion, I clenched his eyebrows together and raised them.

Now, in the picture next to the first, I drew his hair. Hair has volume, it's poofy, it doesn't fall straight no matter how straight the hair is. I showed you how I would have drawn this particular hairstyle. Just keep in mind that hair tapers and flows. I also showed you how I shade hair in pencil. I don't always do this, but I feel it helps get the general idea of the direction of the hair across. The last picture of his head shows the headband. I thought that I would just point out that the hairband under the hair would be a little uncomfortable. Over the hair seems a little more reasonable.

Okay, see the circles? Those show some basic shading. One from the side, the other from the front. To get a moody colour scheme to your drawing, something that helps is shading. Nice dark shading will give a moody feel. Don't be afraid to shade dark.

Alright, now to the random colour scribbles. These show some color and how they shade. With the skin tone, I started out with a nice light colour and shaded with a light brown. The darkest part of the shading is a dark purple. Only use the purple shade for the absolute darkest part. Otherwise, this skin could look unnatural. To make blues darker and sadder feeling, going over them with grey adds a bit of moodiness. When deliberately trying to make a drawing sad, I would steer clear of green. Green is a very happy, relaxed colour. It livens a picture like yours up almost as much as yellow would. I would stick to greys, blues, black, and maybe some purples.

Last but not least, I noticed the eyes you drew seemed kinda weird, so I took the liberty of drawing two sets of eyes at the bottom. If you want a little help on eyes, I have a tutorial kinda thing here rubystone11.deviantart.com/art… I also have a bunch of really good tutorials on just about everything favorited here rubystone11.deviantart.com/fav…

Well, I hope I could be helpful! Sorry for the huge wall of text.

Have a nice day,
Your tired friend,
Ruby Stone

Original --> www.deviantart.com/art/New-OC-…
Artist --> ~Clawanimal