Face Shapes

You could ignore some components but the objective was to create more than one style. I have yet to use it myself but I believe I got the gist. I set it up like a Rubik's cube so you get the idea of mixing and matching facial parts. What I enjoyed most was not just the fact that covering the nose made it look more feminine, but that when I covered the mouth it looked chibi-sh imagining the nose was the mouth. This experiment turned out to be a lot of fun.

The shapes show how I came up with different styles. Other than that, I noticed that if you lower the outer edge of the eyes, it looks more feminine; though that's just speculation from my first attempt. I stopped drawing off of other anime characters a long time ago so I don't know any other way to practice. This is a good compromise for those like myself.