i think it's interesting to find out where my brain goes sometimes when i don't reference a specific person and let myself just work on what i "see". the face forms, but it is nobody. it looks sort of like people i know or knew. someone i admired. a friend. someone who taught me things. a disney character. but it is not them, or it wasn't when i was drawing it. whatever it is, im fine with it.
and it comes to me easily. on the other hand, drawing a person i specifically don't know but want to "create" (an oc) is incredibly torturous and annoying. i don't want them to look like someone i know. and it's kinda hard. maybe i associate faces too much.