Unconsciously tilting my head looking at the details of work i just did, a lot of times goes into a mild case of trance often.
No thoughts, head empty 
I always made the same faces like the character I´m drawing and like @Scarlet_Cryptid wrote I was freaked
out when I saw that one of my illustrator friends wasn´t making any weird faces when she was drawing
expressions.
I use onomatopeias / comic sound words a lot when I talk to people, kids do that when they are excited,
I´m 47, so that can be kind of weird when talking to people who pretend to be grown up.
I imagine stories and backstories of my characters all the time, the story part is normal but the backstory
part really goes into the small details. It helps me to imagine the characters and know how they react,
when I know the character well I can throw them into a situation and know how they react and the
story wrties itself.
And something that is not weird for you guys but would be weird if I tell someone who doesn´t
create comics, I´m emotionally attached to comic book characters. Tell that to someone who
doesn´t read comics
I 100% make the faces I am drawing. I have done this in class since I doodled during lectures...
One time I was working on an art assignment for a really long time and started making up art terms. Like "sass" instead of shading. Like "hmm... this box could use some more sass."
One time I took a dinner break from working on a painting and had pudding for dessert. I felt compelled to add water to it because "it wasn't the right consistency for painting"
Art is one of the few things I can get absorbed into without noticing time pass. Once I worked on something for several hours in one go, and temporarily lost the ability to perceive colors properly. That's when I knew I needed to take a break.
Staring at someone if there is interesting lighting on their face/they have unique features/their clothes have an interesting texture because you are mentally figuring out how you would draw them. I remember one time someone was talking to me, but I was mentally breaking their face into 5 values... I was also thinking about my interviewer's chunky sweater a lot during one of my college interviews and how I would draw it with charcoal.
Haha I do this with environments/interesting(ly lit) objects! Less so with people though - too paranoid about people thinking I have less wholesome intentions for that :'D (Also your #3 made me chortle XD)
Let's just say my partner can tell when I'm drawing Jules... 
Our desks face each other, so they looked over at me while I was drawing this panel and just completely lost it because I was mimicking that expression.
I'm also incapable of sitting on a chair like a civilised person while drawing. Common poses include: "Sitting on the chair cross-legged", "sitting with knees to the chest" and of course, the spiciest variant: "sitting like L from Death Note". 
Basically I consistently look like a weird goblin while drawing.
- Taking selfies to use as reference for panels. My phone and iPad are currently filled with gems such as: me pretending to smoke a pen cap (that would later be turned into a panel of Aaron smoking his cigarette); a wide selection of angry faces to be used for Adrian; me in an ugly ass pajamas holding several kitchen items pretending to be Aaron; and last one, me doing my best impression of Jack Nicholson in The Shining, but in a dark room and with lighting coming from below.
- Putting on an audiobook. Proceeding to completely forget about it as soon as the character sketching phase begins, because I'm too busy replaying the dialogue from the page I'm drawing over and over in my head.
- The urge to keep every.single. piece of scrap paper because "you never know, it could be used for art"!!!
- Buying 25689496 sketchbooks. Using only the ugliest/cheapest one for fear of "ruining" the others.
At work, in my head, thinking of a scenario, dialogue, literally anything
"Oh hey by the way could you do blah blah blah" the voice trails off
"Yeah sure okay"
Minute later, snap back to reality
"Hey wait, you totally just said something to me right? I 100% blanked on you"
Listen to a song on repeat for hours so I can focus. Usually something instrumental.
That might be an adhd thing though. 
Making faces and making selfies... especially for this guy
Photos of your own hands, thousands of them.
"I suddenly got inspired by this song so I will listen to it non-stop the whole day while finishing the picture... And probably after that".
Subbing to all the good porn artists on Twitter because "look at this anatomy and colors!"
Looking intensely at actors ears while watching movies.
Talking to characters while drawing them.
Augh, This. If someone asked me which artists I really admire and whose art I'd like to emulate, I'd be a little embarrassed to tell them, because they're all porn artists!!! Like, not all porn artists are great artists, obviously, but all the artists I admire right now are somehow porn artists.
Ugh, I've got awful posture and I write for hours on end, so I'll just crackle when I walk around afterwards as every bone cracks.
In terms of bad habits, I've been told I write like I'm trying to pretend to write so a teacher won't call me out, because it's easier to avoid typos if you raise your fingers more, and the keys go click clack if you press them louder.
Hahahaha oh yessss. I really need to remember to wear my mouth guard when drawing bc I know I clench my jaw whenever I'm drawing or reading anything showing full teeth.
Also, I constantly sound out sound effects when drawing them out. Like the number of times I've squawked, smooched, and breath marked a sigh is wild haha.
Another thing I for me is that I'll go back and look previous drawing I've done and reminisce over them. I'll even do this for drawings that are less than a week old.
The biggest "weird" thing I do is incessantly pace around while listening to music. That's how I write. It's difficult to do it any other way for me! (I'll put on epic music, visualize the scene, then walk to my notebook and write everything as it appears in my head.)
the weird shit in public :
Stare at strangers asses
Stare at strangers arms
Stare at strangers eyes
Stare at strangers noses
Stare at strangers backs
The weird shit in private
Ask friends "does this pose look too sexual"
Convince friends I'm not drawing bondage
I act out scenes all the time. My wife has caught me in the middle of acting out an action scene making bad sound effects while I move around the house doing it.
I am very lucky my wife knows that I'm not insane or suffering from a psychotic break...
Bringing a notebook everytime I watch a movie or go to the movies (gotta take notes!)
Getting up and pacing the room every 5 minutes whenever I'm drawing something.
Notes and papers strewn all over. Sometimes I'd be cleaning my room and finding a forgotten piece of memo in a drawer containing scene ideas I'd completely forgotten.
Smiling like a maniac when I finally got a drawing right.
I often subconsiously trace over the outlines of buildings, landscapes, faces and body shapes with my finger in the air. Like when I'm sitting somewhere and see an interesting boulding I trace over the outlines of it's main shapes with my right finger like if my finger was a pen... but not the way other people could see what I do I usually have my hands in my pockets or do really small movements. Man that sounds really weird now that I've written about it haha
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