Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20160429173411/@comment-27425734-20160501230846

Personally, I go off of realistic facial features because... in real life, anime is fucking terrifying. It might look "kawaii" on the show, but it looks like shit in real life. Here's an example of a facial structure:

- Face: She's relatively average-looking with a thin face, broad jawline, aquiline nose, wide set eyes, and a broad forehead. Her ears are rounded, and stick out from her head.

To find these details, I usually search on the web for things such as "types of noses", "types of faces", etc. But, most of my details are actually gathered from various books I've read where the authors describe their characters. Stephanie Meyer is an excellent example of someone who is able to recreate her characters in vivid detail even if the characters are heavily criticized, and the story is widely hated. Christopher Paolini does a fairly good job too.

For physique, you can do something like this:

- Physique: Scrawny with long fingers, and even longer legs. He looks like some sort of bug that learned to walk on two legs like a human.