Once I had the eyes more so under my belt, my next hurdle was the feeling of the person. I went to the vibes of the person, I found out that for me I needed to feel the vibe the person gives off and AT A GLANCE tell myself what was unique about the person's face.
tho doing this and messing up at first I told myself "well you messed it up once so the second time you draw it can't be as bad as the first and if it is then you may wanna take a break" lol this made me feel like I could mess up and it's okay not to be perfect.
I also found out that the less I look at someone the better for me lol it forces me to work on only the important parts. so doing that I was able to start filling out the rest of the page. 
I turned them anthro for practice incorporating animal ears into hair on the head.
I tried to also practice using the persons features for a character with a different gender, like seen on the bottom.
with all that practice, I felt more comfortable doing my next portrait study.
Here's the notes page where I did it and also studied other things.
lol the notes at the bottom were things I wrote down and then fixed but kept there to allow myself to know that i'm not perfect and didn't draw my little doodle at the bottom like that first try.

and then here's just the study itself.


and with that, I'll probably leave that here for now and then update the rest tomorrow or somethin lol.