illustration 2: face shapes

I made this little diagram to show myself that I keep drawing the same face shape. After watching the Appeal video from youtube it's put a lot of things into perspective for me. Their faces are not interesting enough, in my opinion, and it causes my characters to lack personality. The video mentioned exaggerating certain features, which I think I haven't done at all. If they're all the same then it makes it less life-like. I wanted to redesign their face shapes to make them all different and unique, trying to make it sort of fit their personality.

Before I did this, I tasked myself with trying to draw as many different face shapes as I could. I think this is good practice for me as someone who doesn't take much time to rough things out and practice. 

It was really interesting for me to challenge myself into how many unique face shapes I could create. It has really put some things into perspective for me, and I think I have learned a lot from this process.

I then wanted to dedicate a page to me just testing out using all these different face shapes. I wanted to see if I really could create characters that looked different and unique. I think this was quite successful and I managed to make quite a few new characters. I am now more confident when thinking about redesigning my characters and have more of an idea about how I should approach it.