I am not an artist and not good at drawing so I don't know:
Is a good artist able to make unique faces from scratch? I look at paintings from the masters and to my untrained eye it looks like every artist uses the same type of idealized face unless they painted someone from life. In video games characters are either 3D scanned real models or heavily inspired by real people or they look very generic.
So where is all the art with unqiue looking people? Am I not looking hard enough?
>>2749583
That is because people draw symmetrical, perfect faces. Real faces aren't symmetrical at all and to make an original, real face is either hard or just not desirable. The best option is to take someone from life and change it a bit so you know it's done correctly but at the same time it is not just a copy.