So this is a combination benchmark and debug run.

A comparison of the ease of execution with two different drawing techniques, traditional cross-on-sphere versus freeform 'random-render-by-parts' methods. This test evaluated the relative attractiveness and quality of two doodles, as well as how easy they were to draw. Thinner lines are better.

I did these self-doodles to check what the hell seems to be going wrong with me, or my art, or my brain, or something. I would be submitting a lot more work, except that I encounter this inability to render faces with snouts/muzzles every damned time. (Fluff, I can draw human faces better than animal faces.) I can normally render them passably well, until about the 'I Miss Friends' picture went up. I cannot find what is blocking my ability to see and put on paper these faces. Neither of these drawings are to my satisfaction, Neither is ME. Neither captures the facial features or proportions I want to describe. Neither is attractive. Only the top drawing seems to have any kind of technique in there, the bottom one... well the only thing I don't hate are the horns. And that's another thing, I can't correctly position the horns.

I have plenty of human models to shape the head from. I have no dragon heads (or skulls) to shape the dragon head from! Forming a head and snout and horns and jawbones is not simply done by gluing a blunt snout to a man's face, there are fundamental shapes and masses that I lost grasp of. Though I am highly vexed and annoyed, I shall continue investigating this problem until the solution can no longer hide.