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Before I start, let me say that I'm not telling you how to draw. You draw however you're gonna draw, HOWEVER look to real life for what you're drawing. The problem with the dinner plate eyed manga character is that generally, that feature that we're most drawn to, that takes up most of the face is empty and dull.

Study your own facial expressions in the mirror. Carefully note what your brows do, how your mouth moves. This will help you greatly.

This book can be found at pretty much any chain bookstore. Sit a while and give it a read. It will read very quickly and you can learn just what I mean, using your own face and your friends as reference.

I feel like there's a major problem with just how bland the expressions are. If you're going to make a character have such massive eyes then you should have those eyes show some sort of emotion rather than just having them exist as massive glass beads on her face. The thumbnails at the top of the first image are the only ones that I feel any real connection to.

This character's face in the larger images is generic, and I'm not sure how much she would appear to be different from any other character that you draw. I feel like the more you draw the more you'll develop your own style, and maybe these problems will sort themselves out.

Oh, there's another nitpicky thing based on one of my pet peeves that I feel I should bring up. Why name her Katsuko? Is there any real reason to have the character be Japanese? Do you know enough about the culture to pull it off? She certainly doesn't look Japanese. This doesn't have anything to do with your art, but it's just something you might want to think about.

Out of everything I like the rotation thumbnails at the top best. The eye size is more realistic, and the facial expressions are done fairly well. I also like the hair design, unrealistic though it may be. It seems to be when you go larger that you run into problems.