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>>5050
That is absolutely fine, as frustrating as it is to see such a glaring error after working on it so long, it's always good to add a new rule to my set (See the attached image- even when smiling, the corners of a person's mouth will still always line up with the centre of their eyes).
I think what my problem might be is that my brain tends to over-exaggerate a lot of shapes and features that I see- I remember in high school, the class had to draw a portrait of the teacher as realistically as possible, and indeed, mine was the most cartoony and exaggerated, the teacher actually thought I was taking the piss (I wasn't).
I'm not presenting that as an excuse by any means, I'm simply stating that might be the reason- or one of them, at least- for some of the recurring errors in my art.
I suppose one reason why I like to draw so much TF2 fanart, even after such long periods of not playing it, is because the character models are juuuuuust the right balance between cartoony and realistic for me to draw easily.
Now, as for >5047 in particular, I can't really see the monkey similarity but I can definitely see his mouth is too wide (which led me to find the attached reference pictures. Don't worry about me changing my style, because I actually really really like my style. What I am going to do is draw the same thing over and over, making slight changes each time until he doesn't look like he's a cast member of Planet of the Apes anymore.
TL;DR: God damn it, thank you.
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