Check out the way the heads are drawn on these icons:

http://www.iconarchive.com/category/peo ... -soft.html

(Sorry for the popup window that occurs -- if I could stop that, I would.)

Another option for people icons is here:

http://www.iconexperience.com/v_collections/#opi

I've got gradients down, and layering stuff, and freehand drawing and adjust down, but how do I draw heads like this in Inkscape with the pen tool, drawing bezier curves? That pen tool has me confused.

the Inkscape Guide describes how to do create bezier curves using .