I’ve been thinking about this, and I’m going to go through some things that I think could be done to make this drawing look less uncanny.
- Make the nose larger and more defined.
- The eyebrows should be above all eye wrinkles. Touch your eyebrows, notice how your eyebrows are on your rigid forehead, rather than directly on your eyelids. The wrinkles around the eyes of a sleep-deprived person are present in the flesh that surrounds your eyes but is still within your eye sockets. I also made the eyebrows a bit thicker too.
- We aren’t done yet though. The eyes are still strange looking, they are too small and beady. My solution to this is to make they eyes wider, as it is very rare for a humans eyes to be open wide enough for their eyes to be a true circle.
- Finally, I added some more shading and filled in the nostrils. Admittedly filling in the nostrils was more of a personal preference rather than a genuine flaw with your art, but I decided to do it anyway. This final version could still use some tweaks, but those are more up to personal preference.
I think there are a few lessons to be taken away from this. For starters, when you’ve drawn a face, and only after you have finished drawing it, have you noticed how uncanny it is; do not fear, it is probably not nearly as unsalvageable as you assume it to be (assuming you drew it digitally). But if you find that the face you’ve been drawing is extremely uncanny, I would reccomend touching your face in order to figure out where you’ve gone wrong in your drawing and how you can fix it.
Also, I’m far from being a particularly skilled or experienced artist, so take my advice with a grain of salt. Anyway, I wish you luck in future art-endeavors.