Can bad proportions ruin a drawing?

Can it? Yes. Do bad proportions always, without fail, ruin a drawing? Not at all! What's important, here, is intent. Many artistic styles and movements have been built around twisting proportions and visually distorted reality (see Surrealism - Wikipedia as a good, prominent example). read more

Practice drawing each of her features, you’re not going to get it right the first, second, or even the third time, but with each drawing you get better at hand to eye coordination. When i look at someone’s face i picture their features in shapes and lines. read more

Every line from first to last should be well considered, so that at any stage the drawing may be workmanlike, in good proportion, and expressive of the model, so far as it has been taken. Bad proportion often results from looking along the contours rather than surveying, taking in the mass of the object. read more