So I've been going through the archives of http://dresdencodak.tumblr.com/ , refreshing what I'd picked up from his old tutorials, and going over the new ones. Some of the stuff he wrote on facial shapes made me think.. About how the same principle would apply to anthro faces, without losing the intrinsic characteristics that make them distinguishable as one species as opposed to another.

There's a lot more leeway I think for drawing humans than any other animal. We more readily identify a face as human, and so if someone draws a human in a stylised fashion, we're less likely to try and work out if it's supposed to be a chimpanzee or an orangutan instead. But I think it is possible, and learning how to better do so would be a good step towards developing my own style as an anthro artist.

Given that I was designing my bat character at the time, and trying to work out how to get bat faces to 'work', I drew a set of different faces based around distinctive shape differences, then tried to make them all bats. I think I'll do this with a few species, it was a lot of fun.