| | I have to ask, Joe, why Boston? I'm originally from the Bronx.
Anyway, I'd say that drawing a stylized comic book character is easier if we're talking one drawing, but then I will have to draw that character over and over again in a variety of ways: full bodied movement to emotional expression where the drawings could add up to hundreds, especially in the preliminary drawings. And in drawing a realistic representational portrait, I have direct reference which I rely on and it's usually without any expression.
Adding to that, the face of the main character in my book, William Howland of Table for One, was based on James Dean, particularly his bone structure. James Dean had the kind of face that has stayed with me every since I first saw it and I knew that I'd use it one day for a character of mine. If you look at Dean's face, it looks as if it was created by an artist, it has that kind of stylized symmetry about it. But even though Dean was the source for my character, it's more of a short hand version of it and it may not be obvious if you don't know before hand.
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