#drawing expressions

[indieyuugure]

(My response to @hyperchef ‘s reblog of this post)

Making an exaggerated expression that doesn’t look weird is mostly about figuring out what to exaggerate in order to convey the desired emotion. For instance, when a character is angry, exaggerate their brow line. When a character is happy, exaggerate their smile. When a character is sad, exaggerate their eyes. Examples:

By accentuating certain features, you can convey more intense emotions without it looking weird or off. Most emotions have a main focus point to which we subconsciously notice and use to figure out what someone else is feeling. Some more complex ones would be Disgust exaggerates the mouth, surprise accentuates the eyebrows, eyes and hair, sleepy exaggerates the mouth, eyes and eyebrows, and pain exaggerates everything all at once.

So for your eyes, problem, there are some tricks for drawing the tmnt eyes. Now I’m not sure exactly which style you’re talking about, but since you said you previously were working with realistic shapes, I’m guessing you’re having trouble with the Rise style.

Rise seems to have a “standard shape” for their eyes. It’s generally a rounded parallelogram. It’s composed of four convex lines that are sharpest at the eye’s tear ducts and point. The bottom is typically flat, though Leo and Donnie often have the top be completely flat and the bottom much more round, like a semi-circle.

As for the pupils, I honestly struggle a lot with this as well. I think the most important thing is to establish almost like certain standard sizes. So just keep scribbling a circle until you think it’s the appropriate size to be your standard middle size. From there you can make it bigger or smaller depending on the emotion.

so if the one on the far left is the standard, then the one in the middle is a sad smile and the one on the right is horrified shock.

You have to be careful though, I’ve found through my experience that it’s easy to become desensitized to this kind of thing. You draw a small pupil to show shock but after looking at it too long or drawing to many characters expressing that emotion, somehow it doesn’t look small enough anymore.

The same can happen in the other direction, you want a sweet expression but for some reason as soon as you’re happy with how big and round the pupil is, it’s already not enough. This is cause by you setting your eye to think that that is the standard size and now you think that the pinprick is the mid point, so “surprised” has to be smaller than that.

It’s actually really easy to undo this phenomenon, just erase the pupil, draw you pre-established standard, look at it for minute, then erase it and go back to what you were doing. This kind of thing is about relativity.

If you’re still having trouble with this stuff, you can message me with more questions that I can help you with and answer!

I hope you found this helpful. Expressions are tricky to nail. I usually draw and redraw the expressions in ROTP two or three times before I’m satisfied, and even then I’m constantly tweaking them. Don’t feel bad for not absolutely nailing it on the first try, just make sure you keep trying and tweaking your technique until you can make something you’re proud of!

Good questions! :]

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[creadhd]

𝚍𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚎𝚡𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚒𝚜𝚎 ✍🏻 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚕𝚎𝚜

I used an original character to practice drawing the head at different angles. I was aiming to keep consistency with drawing one character but as you can probably tell I’ve still got some work to do. Overall I’m glad I did this exercise and learned quite a bit from it. I’m happier with how it looks with color than with just the sketch.

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[alinexart]

Jim Hawkins ♥

#drawing #digital art #Jim Hawkins #El planeta del tesoro #Treasure Planet #digital drawing #disney #drawing practice #drawing expressions #krita #disney character #redraw

[art-tnt]

Need a good library of references for practice or for your projects? Line-of-Action is a great resource for artists.

#art #art references #art reference library #line-of-action #art practice #anatomy #drawing expressions #drawing animals #drawing hands #gesture drawing #art help

[hatteymcstache]

NOW! Feel free to take notes!

#hattey has spoken #hattey's art #drawing expressions #art tutorials

[thatgenderfluidmonstrosity]

Practicing expressions with Jekyll, these are both in reference to Hyde not knowing what he’s doing in the lab

Like:

H- Jekyll, lad, bud, what is all of this stuff??

J- Just give me the body back. Please. There’s a reason on why I am called Doctor and not you.

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[nickydraws3]

Thought I'd practice drawing happy expressions while designing characters and this fun lil guy came out! :D In all honesty, my favorite aspect of art I enjoy doing the most is designing different types of characters with different character expressions. Especially eyebrows, they're so fun to draw.

#artist on tumblr #artist on instagram #sketchbook drawing #drawing practice #character design #drawing characters #drawing expressions #sketch #character sketch #character drawing #sketchbook art #sketching #drawing

[crystal-moon-101]

Doing one of those expression drawings challenges, and used a random wheel generator to pick out faces for all of my Ben 10 Next gen kids. Though I can't do them all at once lol, so I broke up the challenge into groups. Starting off with the main four kids, also known as the Omni Squad 💚

I love how this random generator made two of the kids look like they're in a traumatic angst scene, while the other two look like they're in a rom com. Expression samples made by MagicalPouch

#Ben 10 #Ben 10 Next Gen #Next Gen #Next Generation #Ben 10 Next Generation #Ben 10 OCs #OC #Original Characters #Drawing Expressions #Drawing Challenge #My Art #TW: Blood

[rionee]

unusual expression

#project sekai #asahina mafuyu #doodle #hi how's it going i got busy #ah yes my actual favorite part of drawing #drawing expressions

[masonsartchive]

Ayo one of my first digital drawings, noice.

#digital art #small art account #my artwork #random oc #drawing portrait #drawing practice #drawing expressions #i drew something #colored hair #color practice

[gimaeverything]

drawing expressions with Paulo

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[creadhd]

𝙾𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛: 𝙷𝚊𝚛𝚙𝚎𝚛 𝙶𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚢 👻

Some expression and pose practice with one of my original characters. I don’t love them all, but hey, isn’t that why we practice?

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[deadbunnybar]

I actually made a goodish expression for once that wasn’t goofy lookin

Neck needs work tho

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[mokomika]

Doodles of expressions init.

#pen doodles #doodle #practice drawing #drawing faces #drawing expressions #trying to draw more than the same 3 expressions is hard lol #i had fun though

[mountainshroom]

Dumb zukka content for my heart

#yes even MORE kitties you know it #i love drawing sokka expressions never gets old #silly stuff #atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #prince zuko #sokka #atla sokka #zukka #art #my art #fanart #digital art

[lackadaisycats]

Got this expression related question in my inbox here a while back and figured a drawn response was warranted. -------------------------- Lackadaisy is on Patreon! Posting a lot of animation pre-production art and merch previews lately!

#lackadaisy #lackadaisycats #cats #expressions #tutorial #drawing #character art