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This was completed 7-11-00 The male head - just like the female head - should always begin with a cirlce (if you can't draw circle - get a circle guide from your local arts/crafts store.) There are three main views to learn for the face. The Portrait, the Profile, and the 3/4ths View. The 3/4ths view is pretty much any and everything that isn't a portrait or a profile ^_^. Portrait Profile 3/4ths View These are just basic examples - each characters' face is shaped slightly different. Generally the younger the character is, the shorter and more curved and rounded off the face will be. More masculine characters often have long slender faces with chisled features (sharper areas with less gradual curve to them. Below are a few examples of different shapes of male faces. This character had a very long face with minimal features. This character was drawn with a more bishounen (pretty boy) idea in mind and bishounen characters rarely have highly defined cheeks so that area is very smoothed off. This character's face has a slightly more visible cheekbone and the jaw is slightly more appearant too - the chin is rounded off slightly at the bottom as well. Similar to the face above but the chin comes to more of a point and the cheek is lower. This is a good example of a common attribute found in highly muscled characters. The head is slightly smaller then usual, but the neck is very large in comparrison. He has very obvious cheek bones and the chin comes to a very sharp point. This characters features are very sharp - the face is long, but the jaw lare large and long. The cheek bone is also very obvious. Once you've got a good understanding of how the face should be shaped, you add in the features. A male character's eyes can be the same as or completely different from those of a female character. Generally it depends on the style of the artist. I would suggest you use a fairly different type of eye for each of your characters - but some artists use the same type of eyes for everyone. Often times the eyes of a male character are slightly smaller then those of your average female character. Sometimes they are much slimer and longer - but when you've got a young male character, the eyes may be just as large and cute as a cute female characters' - and a female characters' eyes could be long thin and slender too. Really it varies so much that there is no set rule. It's a judgement call. Noses and hair vary just as much as the eyes will. I hope that this helped out and that - above all else - it was better then the old tutorial that used to be here ^_^. This was completed 7-11-00.