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Learn the rule of thirds. You can split a face in to three same sized portions, from hairline to brow line, from brow line to root of the nose (the part where nose connects to the upper lip. depending on your viewpoint and shape of the subjects nose, tip of the nose might be even lower, but usually higher than this connection. You can pretty easily estimate it), and finally from root of the nose to tip of the jaw. Now you can place your line of eyes below the brow line. From jawline to the eye line is a half, and the other half is eye line to the top of the skull (not hair line).

Now that you have this grid plotted out, you estimate the width of the eyes and then the back of the cranium eg. back of the head. It's usual beginner mistake to elongate nose and lower portion of the face. Try to remember that there doesn't exist anything such as a "long nose", but only thin noses that look long because the tip might curve down etc. The divided portions are more or less the same always. The upper connection of the ear resides at eye level, and the lower connection at the root of the nose. This however changes when people are looking up or down, because the face moves up, but ears are kind of pivotal, try to look it up and see where ear connects at different poses.

Remember that eyes change in perspective too, whether it's three quarters profile, full profile or any combination. I try to find references and point out what I mean later.

I hope this helps.