Description can be a hard thing to regulate. You want to paint a good picture, but you don't want to flood your writing with description. Everyone does description a little differently.
If you focus on description for setting, try to remember the senses. Pull in sights, sounds, tastes, scents and feelings.
People can be described in different ways as well. Most times we want to describe a person with all their features, eye color and all that. More often, try to describe someone with noticeable features. If the POV character notices said person's eyes, they're probably a bright or unique color. If their hair is described, then it probably has some feature to it that sticks out. This goes along with almost everything.
Actions, as the saying goes, speak louder than words. Okay, that may be contradictory in this sense, but it's still true. Make sure to take note of the person's actions and how they act. Make a point to describe their actions in ways that might be specific to them.
Thoughts are just as important. A character that connects observations to past memories of other people, places, events, etc give them a certain degree of life and realness that's hard to reciprocate in other ways. Think of how you might think and use that as the jump off point.
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