proportions? idk

[late cave]

so i drew this fellow. He looks odd. maybe its the hair or something with the proportions? lmk

ok its definitely his hair... err im so bad at hairstyles nooouu

[desert ore]

So you have the hair being random and chaotic. Hair actually does have a structure. First off youll want to have a rough shape of what you want the hair to look like. After that draw sections and chunks of hair. If you want you can go into further detail but always keep things in the original chunks of the hair. And an important thing to remember is to have the hair visually flow from a certain point on the head. Even irl hair visually flows from a central point. It varies on how the hair is styled. This applies to all hair types and lengths

[hazy mason]

What is going on with the picture? I cannot quite tell

[hazy mason]

The "visual flow" is not just a compositional phenomena, since in humans it is from the hairline to the (approximate) back of head, where the hair tends to split apart, and there are more methodical ways of "planning" it in art.

[desert ore]

Yep

[late cave]

oops i didnt finish it but basically someone is putting lipstick on him 😭

[late cave]

ouhh yeah i see. hair can be sectioned out too. thank you!

[hazy mason]

So, what are the hands doing?

[late cave]

one hand (the one i actually drew) is grabbing his face and the other that i didnt draw is applying the lipstick !

i think i hate it more

[hazy mason]

Space from the nose to the lips seems very large and the nostrils seem very small, but thats honsetly up to personal preference and the character. The hand may also be a bit small compared to the face, evin if a different character

[craggy plover]

the nose is a bit small and the hand grabbing the face is also a bit small which makes the face seem long-ish in relation to the hand. maybe that's whats throwing you off.
as for the hair, locate where the hairline is first, and then you can adjust where the parting of the hair happen - also called "cowlick" a bit higher.

[raven orbit]

oh I thought that was HIS OWN hand. okay. So there is a hand missing, nevermind then. There seems to be a lot of distance between the eyes and the mouth. And yeah, the hair IS better this way now.

[late cave]

thats true omg I didn't even consider that the hand would affect how he looked thank u!

[late cave]

can confirm it looks better now!! time for the othee hand wish me luck.

[late cave]

yipeee thanks guyss <3

[raven orbit]

wow, way better. That makes so much more sense now. HIS shoulders could use some more anatomy focus, but ...much improved