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Thanks! I drew literally 1,000 Loomis heads as a challenge for myself once, copying every head drawing in Drawing the Head and Hands once from reference and once from memory, but I think the thing that helped me most was breakdowns of photos and other artists. I'll bring the reference into photoshop and literally draw a loomis abstraction on another layer on top of it, then hide the photo and copy the abstraction I drew, then hide everything and re-draw the abstraction from memory, and do that until I can get the abstraction accurate, and then draw the portrait. Spaced repetition also helps, so going back and trying to re-draw things I've already studied from memory to make sure the concepts stuck. For artists, it was Loomis, Huston, Weston, Finch, Chongmang, and Weichung for technique, style-wise I just recommend you look at artists whose style you want to emulate. Style-wise I like Frank Cho, Adam Hughes, and J. Scott Campbell for western comic style women, Robert Marzullo for big pillowy lips. For men it's the artists I already mentioned and Ryan Ottley. I think drawing along to Chongmang and Finch videos are the most helpful to learn the abstraction, and then you can do photo and drawing breakdowns. If I could do it over again I'd do more drawings from imagination as well, those really expose your weaknesses. If you want to learn challenging angles then do breakdowns and draw a bounding box around the head, then try to do it from memory starting with the bounding box. Doing some digital painting of portraits also helps to ingrain the idea of the planes of the face. I think the number one way to improve is to identify your mistakes, find out how other artists solve those problems, and then practice fixing those mistakes until it becomes a habit. Let me know if you have any more questions!