Face Squares Study

Tonight I tried a new technique for drawing faces. I started with the nose and scaled everything else out from there. I also found that the dimensions could be arranged in boxes. The first box went from the bottom of the nose, around the sides and up to the inside corners of the eyes. Two more boxes went from the bottom of the eyes to the top of the eyebrows. Another box went from the bottom of the nose to the bottom of the lower lip, with yet another box from the bottom of the lip to the bottom of the chin. The corners of the mouth lined up with the middles of the eyes.

Here's the sketch with the boxes:

And here it is after shading:

Perfect? Of course not! But that's why I'm practicing.