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With sketches like this I usually don't have anything in mind. I just start throwing down shapes and see how they turn into faces. Coming from animation I also like to give the expression as much life as possible. The older fellow at the bottom ended up looking like actor Thomas Mitchell to me (Uncle Billy from It's A Wonderful Life.)
The arm and leg sketches are just me playing with straits against curves and opposing curves.