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[AllThingsLive]

Thanks for the help you guys! I've been doing the scribbly technique and I can already see my proportions and placement starting to shape up. And Shook, I do have a big head lol, it's kind of weird to say, but yeah. My noggin is quite sizable.

[GlyphGryph]

Unlike with Shook's pictures, make sure to wrap your guidelines around the shapes. The most important thing to remember is that you aren't drawing circles - you're drawing spheres.

Spheres, and cylinders, and blocks, not circles, ellipses, and squares. Think in 3 dimensions.

Anyways, I've included an example of how I work here:
http://www.filedropper.com/example_3

Not a great picture (I just did it with a mouse in under half an hour), but lets you see how I build up from basic guidelines, and also gives you a feel for how I work the (very basic) color. Let me know if it was any help.
(I think most image editors can do xcf, but if yours can't you can download GIMP, which is a powerful and free editing tool)

[nenjin]

Here's the textbook technique to getting proportional heads.

http://www.artyfactory.com/portraits/drawing_techniques/proportions_of_a_head_1.htm

Remember, the eyes start in the middle of the head. It doesn't look that way in RL because our minds start the beginning of the "face" at the hair line. If you look at someone who is bald, or has a shaved head, you instantly see the true proportions of the eyes on the face.

From there, the bottom of the nose is half way between the bottom of the chin and the eyes. And then the mouth is half way between the bottom of the nose and the chin.

Mind you, these are classical proportions, perfect symmetry. In truth, humans are not perfectly symmetrical, and it's the slight asymmetry that gives faces character. Eyes are actually sized differently,  just so subtly you can't really tell without a detailed study.

Your hand sketch looks really nice. I always love sketching hands, for some reason they're easier to do for me and they're easy to start working with perspective in new and unusual ways.

[AllThingsLive]

Interesting, Glyph, I think I understand your process. That's a pretty good drawing for using just a mouse too.
And thank you for the help and your kind words, Nenjin.