Though it's one of my favorite things to do it can be incredibly hard when it comes to putting all of the pieces together. Perhaps this is the reason why I will never want to birth a child- I've already spent a lot of time and effort on thousands of characters trapped inside my head.

From the style of their hair, to the shape of their face. Even their body type and how they appear wearing certain clothes. It's incredibly difficult for me to figure out how to draw someone, say for example, a character I encountered in a dream. How do I know someone with that sort of face exists? Looking things up on the internet is only easy when it has a name or category and assuming you don't get boggled down by irrelevant search results.

The theory is that, if you learn to draw the skeleton/muscle, you can draw the person. No. At least, not for me, I can't. It helps me understand how to flesh it out a little more (literally) but it doesn't allow me to create my own unique face. Maybe I'm just misunderstanding something, but it doesn't tell me why or how a skull gets to be the shape that it is? Kinda like how people poke at pieces of metal and it somehow makes a computer. Now I'm just making my head hurt...

My frustration with this, is because of the perspective. Sure he/she looks attractive at this angle, but what about the 'other angles'... You know... the ones that may or may not make them look like a randomly generated character in Oblivion.

My question to anyone out there: How do you go about the concept process? Know of any random resources or key words?

My Resources:
Hair