Elderscrollers Sketchy Stuff
@Eyliana: Thanks! Regarding your question, the answer is not so easy. When drawing from imagination, faces tend to look kind of same-ish. I know that from my stuff and I see it in really great artists where I know that they don´t use reference a lot. (I even know an artist where I could swear,that all her female characters look kind of like herself) I think we tend to develop some kind of standard face that we draw over and over again in variations.
To gain more variety, you could try to lightly draw a face as you would do normally and then start playing around with the features. Erase the eyes,  make them bigger or smaller, further apart than usual. Next the nose, vary the length, broadth etc. In the end it will still look like one of your faces, but it will be a bit different.
If you really want total variety and completely different looks, you have to take reference. You don´t have to blindly copy it, just use it as a starting point. It also helps to get a certain character type across. E.g.: you draw a tough female character who is also sexy. Think of a celebrity or person that you would asociate with those traits. Here it could be Angelina Jolie from Tombraider. Look up reference photos and start drawing, but just use the essence of her face. She has a very square jaw, big lips, tiny nose. Try to just capture the "traits" of her features, don´t copy them 100%. In the end and with a little practice, she will kind of look similar to her, but different enough to be a character of her own. If you get that "vibe" across, people will associate your characters look with the tough and sexy traits.
As I said, not an easy subject, I hope you understand what I mean and it was of some help :)

Some more sketches and studies.Bargue this time for a change to practice rendering with pencil more





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Elderscrollers Sketchy Stuff - by Elderscroller - 01-07-2013, 09:58 PM
RE: Elderscrollers Sketchy Stuff - by Annamoon - 01-09-2013, 09:19 PM
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