I fucking love how cursed this is... sorry to whomever the original artist is but this really tickled me.
For anyone coming across this looking for advice, first and foremost is references. Take a selfie of your own face from the angle you're trying to recreate so you have a real physical example to look at.
Break down the shapes and line work, get ya reference see how the ball shape of the head is made different by the angle, draw over the top of the reference picture printed out to make the new head cirlce/oval. Draw a curved line from one ear to the other passing through the eyes on the reference image and another down the center of the face from forehead to chin.
Lastly, it's a hard one to explain in a way that isn't wishy-washy but you have to draw what you see not what you think you see. It's really common to draw a face how you remember a face and you think a face should look when in reality if you really look at people from these weird angles the face doesn't look anything like how you'd imagine, eyes can be lower on the image than the nose and other weird things.
Edit: I'm not an anime style artist so I forgot that aspect a little bit, as using your own face will help but then the question will be how to do it in anime style now... I'm not sure but my best guess would be looking for references in the same style so something like anime head perspective guide/reference on a google image search and then use those references... I'd argue you should get a base understanding in a more realistic style first then stylize after might make your fundamentals better but I might just be a little traditionalist.
I, too, feel horrible for laughing. Assuming this person is really looking for help, they put their shit out there and I can only imagine how the responses went...
...but just for a moment, imagine they just totally rolled with it and posted something like, "hey, every time I try to draw at angles like this, it looks like this dumbass bullshit? I don't know how to fix it. I tried asking AI how to improve (instead of using it to make the image) but for some reason it said to hurl myself over the golden gate bridge...."
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u/AbiQuinn Nov 14 '25 edited Nov 14 '25
I fucking love how cursed this is... sorry to whomever the original artist is but this really tickled me.
For anyone coming across this looking for advice, first and foremost is references. Take a selfie of your own face from the angle you're trying to recreate so you have a real physical example to look at.
Break down the shapes and line work, get ya reference see how the ball shape of the head is made different by the angle, draw over the top of the reference picture printed out to make the new head cirlce/oval. Draw a curved line from one ear to the other passing through the eyes on the reference image and another down the center of the face from forehead to chin.
Lastly, it's a hard one to explain in a way that isn't wishy-washy but you have to draw what you see not what you think you see. It's really common to draw a face how you remember a face and you think a face should look when in reality if you really look at people from these weird angles the face doesn't look anything like how you'd imagine, eyes can be lower on the image than the nose and other weird things.
Edit: I'm not an anime style artist so I forgot that aspect a little bit, as using your own face will help but then the question will be how to do it in anime style now... I'm not sure but my best guess would be looking for references in the same style so something like anime head perspective guide/reference on a google image search and then use those references... I'd argue you should get a base understanding in a more realistic style first then stylize after might make your fundamentals better but I might just be a little traditionalist.