Hi! Hope you don’t mind me making your ask public. I’ll try my best to be helpful, but my process is kinda a mess? 

I always work with guidelines, especially for the face. Usually I get started with a circle for the shape of the head, then a cross for the eyes and the middle of the face (the cross is always curved, never straight lines), from there I build the shape of the jaw and chin, then the rest of the face. Here’s a quick gif : 

As you see it’s not very precise, and when drawing digitally, I flip the drawing and use the transform tool a lot. For me, the lines are more of a very rough starting point than actual guidelines for the face, BUT that’s because for a loooonnng time, I used more precised guidelines and followed them. I tried to do a sketch to show good construction lines but it was so messy… I recommend just googling “face construction guidelines” or something similar, there’s plenty of good examples. The two guidelines I always try to keep in mind are : the space between two eyes is one eye, and the ear is between the brow and the tip of the nose. 

As for ‘shaping’ the face, i’m not sure what you mean by that? Do you mean the construction or making a unique face? If that’s it, I can share my process to try to avoid ‘same face syndrom’ and give each character I draw a specific look.

Basically, what I do is, I focus on their personalities and history to determine the kind of shape that will fit them the best. Depending on the character, I’ll go with a different shape and a different type of line. I might use long, smooth, curved strokes, or a lot of small, sharp lines. Once you have your construction lines done, you can play with the shape and feature until you have what you want. 

My advice to learn how to draw different feature is to use reference pictures. A good resource for that is @humanae. Even if you don’t wanna draw realism, it’ll help you with the anatomy, and you can work on adapting the face to your style. 

TBH, for me, same face syndrom is a thing that I’ve never completely got rid off (I mean, just look at the examples above. I’m cringing at how alike they all still are). Once you have a more defined personal style, you’ll always have characters that look a bit like each other, and a type of face that’s easier to draw, but where’s the fun in always drawing the same thing? 

Now for hair, my advice is the same as above : use reference. Build your mental hair library, so that at some point you won’t have to look at references to draw different type of hair. Something you can do too is : draw the hairline in your construction lines. This will give you somewhere to start from and might make it easier to draw a variety of hair styles! There’s different shapes of hairlines, just look at portraits and try to see them, then draw them!

Also keep in mind that hair are 1) subject to gravity 2) light so they move with movement, wind etc. When drawing the hair, think about the setting of your drawing, the position of the character, and what other elements might influence the shape of the hair. 

OK so I don’t think I’ve got anything else to add! I’m not very good at explaining my process and giving good advice, but I hope this was a bit helpful! Despite studying art at school for years, I’ve got a lot of bad habits from before then, and I’m generally lazy so I often work with the mindset of “fake it til you make it”. But the best advice to improve is always the same : practice, use references, draw from life, practice more! 

Thanks for the ask, again i hope my reply was helpful! Have fun drawing!!

I've been trying to use the bean as a foundational construction base, and it's interesting what it does as a starting point, as an alternative to the usual construction methods... Mainly, it gives a systematic "girly"-coded aesthetic which... combines strangely with facial hair 😅

I gave it another go, looking to make it more angular around the eyebrows and slimmer on the cheeks and jawline. I also add a hard shadow to the face side, to de-emphasize the roundness, as a way to remove the hamster cheeks.

It's non-cute at this point, and it's not meant to maintain that quality - it's a departure that uses the bean as a foundation.

I tried to trace the original bean after the fact, but I think I overshot to the right...

But to illustrate the point, here's an overlay of the base bean (red) and the adjustments done within its structure (blue), followed by a quick fillbof features and then the shadow.

I know it stemmed more from an observation of Big-Mouse's style of construction, but I've taken to calling this the "Loish Bean Method" in my head 😅

Varying the bean proportions gives some variety....

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