Great first attempt Torvic! There's an easier way to make the eye than breaking or altering the face path: Make a wedge shape for the eye and fill it with the background color (no stroke fill) and place it on top of the face line-work where the eye should go. On top of this wedge you can make the pa...

You can download the svgz file (Inkscape compressed svg) for your own personal use only. I hope it's useful.

Torvic - Thanks! The head shape fill is a separate object with no stroke paint that's sitting on the same layer as the spiro path line work, but below it. To save time I use the 'page up'/'page down' shortcut to raise or lower objects within the same layer. I only used 2 layers this time: one for th...

http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/af141/ttrachtman/howToDrawHead34backviewStepByStep.jpg Inkscape 0.47 was used 100% for this how to draw step-by-step diagram. To create the line width tapering effect I used the pen tool with the new "spiro path" option set to "ellipse". I rea...