It may seem kind of daunting at first, but I can't stress how good it is for any artists' development to take it slow and really internalize good foundational drawing habits.

The way I took to studying portraiture was getting the skull, John Asaro's planes of the head, and the Reilly rhythms committed to memory. With those three down, you'll have a rock solid foundation on the anatomy and structure of the face.

For a newbie artist (like myself) who wants to start drawing portraits, what methods do you suggest to study the anatomy of the face?