Ask the girl with face-blindness was very interesting and has informed my thinking on a couple of issues, not the least of which is art - by the way. how is your technical drawing skill? are faces easier or more difficult?
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You seem OK.
I’ve found that I can draw faces pretty well- on par with the rest of my artistic ability- but I can’t draw actual people. It never comes out looking like them. I think there’s some subtle details like lip thickness and eye crease and such that I have trouble seeing. Likewise, I find I have little control over whether the ace will tunr out to be masculine or feminine or ethnic or cheerful or what.
Um… for comparison, if it helps, here are some pictures I drew that have human faces in them. Or quasi-human, at any rate.
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These are really great, nice work!
Attack, I also have face-blindness and I cannot draw faces, or I should say I can’t tell how to make people’s faces reflect individual differences. All faces that I draw look the same. The furthest I have gotten is recently deciding to give one particular character of mine thick eyebrows and a large nose, so he looks somewhat consistent from one picture to another. Also like Malleus, I can’t tell what makes actual people’s faces unique from each other.