Quotes / Only Six Faces

"But I really do like the art of Terry and Rachel Dodson, particularly their women. Sigh. I think they only have one basic female face, but it’s still a gorgeous one."

— MadGoblin, SpideyKicksButt.com

"for Dragon Quest X, Akira Toriyama learned how to draw a fourth kind of face (it's DLC)"

— @Bobservo

"Something you’ll notice about Princess Peach fanart is that everyone gets her hair exactly right. The reason for that, perhaps, is that if you remove her dress (as many fanartists do), Peach’s hairstyle is the only thing that identifies her. Take the above picture, for example: Rumple her hair a bit, and Princess Peach vanishes, transforming into Generic Sexy Witch! Watch the pageviews disappear! Ha ha, it’s MAGIC!"

— Patrick Alexander of Eegra fame, The Magnificent All-Seeing Eye Upon DeviantArt

"You are a silent protagonist, a brand new original character in South Park— meaning you are literally any character in South Park with a different haircut."

— Zero Punctuation on South Park: The Stick of Truth

Nozaki: It's about time for me to introduce a new character, so I think I'll go out people-watching.
Sakura: Oh yeah. Mikorin's the model for the heroine, isn't he? What happens if you don't have a model?
(Nozaki draws three characters: a "friend", a "hero", and a "rival", all of whom share the same facial features)
Sakura: So many Suzuki-kuns!
Nozaki: They always end up with my favorite face...

— Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, "Default Hero Face"

"The Knight is a call back from a previous comic, and so is the bard. Then I noticed they both had a mole under their lip, and the same eyebrows...
Proving that I only have 4 or 5 facial indicators that I rotate among characters changing only the hairstyle."

— Baalbuddy, on Twitter

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