
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.
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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.