You might consider yourself to be in good company if you are also unknowingly/knowingly idealizing yer ego via yer work. ( depending on your taste in artists ) A lot of famous artists are accused of secretly painting themselves in all their works ( the Mona Lisa among many other DaVinci paintings are accused of being…
Well stylized characters are generally all the same honestly. They CAN be completely different, but look at Disney's characters for example : they all look alike. Rapunzel, Elsa, Anna, Merida, they almost have the same face with different eyes and hair. And it's even more obvious with a lot of anime characters. As Ysalex…
I think practicing drawing might help, or looking at drawing tutorials. 2D artists imagine their character features as shapes to create variety. Here's some examples of tutorials I keep. I think it's good to view variety in the most exaggerated terms cause I personally tend to under sell facial features. So when i'm aware…