siins:

hey! i had a great day, i saw kubo and the two strings finally! it was rly sweet.

thank you!! ah, i’m always bad at answering these ‘’how do you draw x?’’ questions bcs i usually don’t know how to step-by-step describe something that i do based on feeling and thought process that’s hard to put down in words… so it ends up in a ramble.. 

i guess key is to look at a lot of real human faces and training your eye to see that one or couple features that is like, super interesting and unique to that face, connecting this feature to a geometric shape (or rather think abt boiling it down to a simple geometric figure) and exaggerating it a lil bit? i guess? i mean i think that’s what i do. 

might sound a bit weird but sometimes you can draw someone’s face/appearance so that their personality shines thru. that rly helps to make something more appealing and interesting looking. imo, anyway. you can put in a lot of info abt the character as a person just in their outlook. don’t be shy to really just use.. geometric shapes to draw a face, i guess is what im saying. 

this is a good blog w tonnes of good ol faces of varying ages and races and at first glance it’s like ‘’ok this is just a bunch of regular looking ppl’’ but the exercise is to spend a little time looking at each individual face and find that specific feature, or the different way how they are arranged on their face that is unique to them! draw from these! train your hand and your eye.

another good way how to think about making characters’ faces look different from one another is to draw like, a handful of them in grayscale without hair or accessories and STILL make them look recognizable and distinct from one another. this is a nice way to check for sameface, if you’re doubting that in your art. try this and then look where you need to go from there, what to change up and stuff.

pretty ok! you can still tell who is who even when they are stripped of their unique hairstyles, accessories and even scars n freckles.

now i could have made a much worse example, where the only way how to tell which character is which just by their haircolour or who has glasses. this isn’t, like, too bad BUT it’s still essentially the same face dressing up as different characters, you know? here you should start thinkin abt different shapes for different features so it’s not the same thing over and over again. don’t be afraid to experiment and move away from shyness to draw ‘’ugly’’.

i hope any of this is useful, and i hope i understood your question to begin with haha.