How to Draw Facial Expressions: Brows, Eyes, Mouth
Expression lives in the brows, the eyes and the mouth. What each one does, and the trick of making them disagree to give a character an interior life.
Expression lives in the brows, the eyes and the mouth. What each one does, and the trick of making them disagree to give a character an interior life.
Flat drawings are not a shading problem. Overlap, line weight, foreshortening and asymmetry — the four things that give a line drawing real depth.
The measurements that fix most badly drawn heads, front and side view, plus a five-minute check for when a head looks wrong and you can’t see why.
Gesture is not loose lines — it is the action. What gesture drawing actually is, the line of action, and a practice structure that makes it stick.
Expression lives in the brows, the eyes and the mouth. What each one does, and the trick of making them disagree to give a character an interior life.
Flat drawings are not a shading problem. Overlap, line weight, foreshortening and asymmetry — the four things that give a line drawing real depth.
The measurements that fix most badly drawn heads, front and side view, plus a five-minute check for when a head looks wrong and you can’t see why.
Gesture is not loose lines — it is the action. What gesture drawing actually is, the line of action, and a practice structure that makes it stick.