Hey everyone thanks for all the feedback so far. Keep it coming please :)

I'll try to address each of your posts just give me a bit - was doin yard work so tired and sore now lol. 

 

In regards to the head proportions, especially the ears eyes and nose as badkittieco was pointing out in her illustrations, here is a composite of the proportion guides I've mostly been using from Scott Spencer's book, with adjustments based on the other models I've been using as reference.

I don't use just one reference. Pretty much I have several different references depending on which part of the body I'm working on at the time. Probably not the best approach but I have to make due with what I can find. I do keep them all relatively the same body build as much as I can of course, but no two people are built exactly alike. Except maybe twins I guess.

I've always gone by the rule of ears being as tall as the brow to the bottom or tip of the nose/septum (depending on how angled the nose is). That's what I was taught in my figure drawing classes (we did have live models) and in most cases it seems to work. 

That said, I agree his ears seem either a bit too high or a bit too large in perspective view, but as you can see in this image they line up with that rule in ortho view. As do the rest of his head proportions, 4 equal parts, etc etc. 

So, thoughts on that? I probably should make the ears a bit smaller.  

 

~Shane