Learning to Draw Other Characters

Towards the end of my school career, I found myself learning to draw characters that have already been well established in the animation feature film and television world. Learning to draw what seemed like the most simplistic characters, and finding that they weren't so simple. Practicing expressions from old characters, ones with facial hair and ones that were supposed to be really young. It was always a new challenge every week, but now, when I go to design my own characters, I think of the notes I took while learning to draw someone else's.