Improvement Timeline: "That" Face

The reference picture:

First picture: I was still practicing my realism skills so it's a bit rough. I had this thing for elongated features back then, too, if it wasn't obvious. Needless to say, it looks nothing like the original picture.

What the hell happened here?! I got worse in my second sketch. This just looks so screwed up that I don't have words to describe how screwed up it is.

Redrawing of the above pic. I just wanted to see what I could do with a retarded picture and if I just used it as a reference, could I make it look what the reference photo looked like? Well, obviously not, but this looks the most normal of the bunch.
Well, that is until I drew this:

Whoa! Super improvement, I'd say. o-o It started with shit, ended up shittier, and suddenly looked a bit normal out of some freak accident. Though, of course, it's not perfect (like, come on, she's not even facing the right way) it's way way way better than the other ones.

See, practice man.


Made on Strathmore Sketch notebook and (for the first pic) a graph paper pad using mechanical pencil.