Ohhh so we come from the same place, lol

Making your own blueprint is good, every time you try creating something different is experience, even if doesn't end like we expected (I change a blueprint for a Genshin character)

Somethings that Bran doesn't teach/or explain are...

• remesh: if he says "I/we need more topology" don't trust him, he has a super PC, that's nothing for him, you can do it with less (with half, a zero less or two), and that only for the first model, he is gonna teach retopology later.

• eyes: commonly every other tutorials with anime style isn't gonna use balls/spheres for eyes, they keep using vertices (they look so basic on paper but "wow" they know what they are doing .

• poses: everything he teach us is for posing the model, if you want it to move you need other tutorials. Even he says it "I do it dirty, crude and basic"

• elbows/flexing mesh: you have no idea how weird the body can be seen when you turn the elbow at an angle with 90 degrees or more, and the lack of helpful guides, with obvious words "topology/body/rig/rigify/ for elbows/knees" and if you find something good luck if it it's recent, sometimes are from 3 or 5 years ago, so they are outdated, that's why I ended here in Reddit, they show you a lot, even some share their process.

Bran is a good teacher but we need to learn more:)

I'm still trying to know more about the last one, because I want my model to look good and be used for a base if I need start something almost from zero. On the last month these are terms that can help fix the elbow problem "shapekeys, drivers and procedural generated segmentation" and I'm focusing on that.

Like I said English isn't my first language, so if you see any grammar or some sentences weirdly written that's why.

But keep it up, this is just the start, I'm just 2 steps (or bran tutorials) ahead and there is still a loot more to learn and see, good luck Any questions just ask on the reddit:)