any advice you can give me for constructing the head at a low angle?
it is extremely difficult for me to understand this with the cheek bones overlapping and the shape of the socket etc.
if you have any good reference pics with readable forms it would also be much apreciated
Try looking at a skull you shmuck
>>2847421
Same struggle here
>>2847421
P E R S P E C T I V E
>>2847421
It's an unusual angle that needs some familiarization to get a feel for. If you have a mirror at home and assuming you are a human, you have a posable model at hand that you can study in motion. Check out some underlying anatomy to get why it looks the way it does, which underlying forms make up the neck, jaw, etc.
And yeah this >>2847618
simple forms in perspective, put the head in a box.
>>2847421
from what I've understood over time it has a lot to do with the shape of the neck.
To draw the jaw you can simply use the same ellipse you used to trace the eyes, except it's a bit tilted downwards. The problem though is that most of the time you don't know how to connect the neck. Study the structure of the neck, how it intersects with the lower jaw. It's not just a tube, there's several muscles going from behind the ears down to the collarbone etc.