Sketch #332

I believe that several studies have shown that people tend to regard faces with a lot of symmetry as more attractive than those with less of it. For this sketch I took half of the one in the preceding post and reversed it to form the other half (thus achieving perfect symmetry).

This technique fails miserably with a lot of sketches. It's easy to end up with a "cross eyed" result or its opposite, for instance, if the eyes are not oriented right.

Even in the case of the drawing in this post (which think is at least somewhat well-suited to the technique), the young lady seems to suffer from a bit of a "fish-eye lens" and an overly thin neck.