faces

Hello Stephen, I'm about to make you a very happy camper. I'm gonna tell you the "secret" that will eliminate all your face drawing problems! Are you really for this? Okay, here is is in one word...
TRACING PAPER
Opps, that's actually two words! Now just in case you're scratching your head and muttering under your breath that you just cant get good advice for free, hear me out! I'll explain everything.

First of all, drawing faces did not come easy for me. That seems strange because I actually make my living DRAWING faces as a Professional Caricature Artist. While it's TRUE that you must practice, yada yada yada, You can get really good by doing your initial drawing of the face on a sheet of tracing paper. The beauty in using the paper is that you KNOW that you now have the "freedom" to make a mistake, without having that "all or nothing" feeling when drawing directly on drawing paper. When you make your initial sketch you will no doubt find things that you are not happy with. That's fine! just put ANOTHER sheet over the first and redraw it, this time keeping the parts that you like, (the ones you drew correctly) and modifying the parts you did wrong. This process might take a few sheets or a lot, but the idea is that you are progressively building upon your last drawing without having to go back and erase constantly. Whether you use two sheets or two hundred you WILL eventually get to a drawing that you ARE satisfied with. Once you've got a picture you like, you can just do what I do, make a xerox hardcopy of it and then you have your perfect picture without flaws.
You can also take your completed drawing, turn over the sheet, cover the UNdrawn side with graphite, and then use the sheet as a cheap carbon paper. If you use this method you can transfer your finished drawing to a more expensive sheet of drawing paper simply by re-tracing your lines. This is ONE effective method I have used successfully for years for getting "perfect" drawings.

Of course, another thing you can do is just practice practice practice! but hey, you already knew that didnt ya?
Happy drawing!
Elgin.