Illustrations for my documentary

I’m making some models for an original video documentary. I made this head model yesterday and applied some toon shaders today to do an early test. I know that the likeness is not quite there yet, I can see the issues and just need to put some more time into it.

I’m most interested in getting some advice on how to increase the hand-drawn style using grease pencil. I’ve tried drawing on the model myself but I think I just suck with grease pencil. This preview uses the line-art modifier, and the results are not really to my liking. Many of the works that I see on YouTube, using grease pencil, look absolutely amazing, and I’m not sure how to capture some of that magic.


Dinking around with grease pencil, trying to figure out what I’m doing. Can’t rotate the camera very far on this before it falls apart.

I would go first to make the like ness as close as possible before you make any grease pencil work.