Notes on Drawing Ulquiorra

EDIT: His face is really, REALLY triangular. That is the secret!
[Note that Ulquiorra's appearance changes in both the manga and the anime.]
Please tell me what you think, and if you use it I'd love to see what you make
When trying to learn to draw something, I think it's far better to learn 'rules' about them which can be applied to draw them any way you like, rather than following one of those annoying step-by-step tutorials that only show you how to draw them in 1 particular pose
I couldn't find any such things for Ulquiorra, so I noted down the main observations I made (as well as the common mistakes) while I tried to learn to draw him. I hope this can be useful The hardest part I found was his horn- it looks different in every picture I swear Just go with the flow I guess

[The ones with grey circles I copied from the manga in order to learn the proportions of everything (never trace). I then tried drawing him from new angles using references. Eventually I could draw the one on the far right without any refs at all.
I like to 'memorise' my favourite characters so I can draw them off by heart whenever I like- do other people do this too? ]


_{Why do I keep hopping between fandoms? xD Upon reading [link] I was struck with the urge to draw Ulquiorra, my favourite character from Bleach. He has such a lovely design! His personality was so cold, but he died when he was just beginning to understand I'm not sure if I'd upload any more Bleach; I'll have a look at the reaction this gets. But I'm also planning to draw more Hetalia (or, actually, Petalia).}</sub>
Ulquiorra Cipher (c) Tite Kubo