Making Faces: Drawing Expressions For Comics And Cartoons
Language: English
Pages: 176
ISBN: 1600610498
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Chances are, you already know how to draw some expressions. But face it, your stories can only get so far with "happy," "sad" and "angry." In order to give your characters some character, you need to know what they look like when they're about to sneeze, when they smell something stinky or when they're flirting, horrified or completely blotto. Lucky for you, that's what this book is all about!
Making Faces contains everything you need to give your characters a wide range of expressions!
Part 1: The Basics. How to draw heads, mouths, noses and eyes, and how they change shape when they move.
Part 2: The Faces. Over 50 step-by-step demonstrations for a variety of expressions divided into scenarios. Each scenario shows four or five expressions from a single character, from simple emotions to more subtle and complex variations, so you see how a face changes with each emotion. Sidebars illustrate the same expressions on a variety of other characters.
Part 3: Storytelling.How to move your story along using expression, point of view, body language and composition. See how it all comes together with damsels in distress, a noir-style interrogation, a Western standoff and other situations.
Illustrated with a diverse cast of characters from hobos to superheroes to teenage girls, this guide will help you create the looks that say it all.
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is sunk deep in the corner of the eye. MOVEMENT The muscles of the eye are considerably simpler than those of the mouth. They tend to work in unison in a lot of situations, but every face is different; so, just as with the mouth, the combinations can get very interesting. The Squinting Muscle This muscle controls the squinting functions of the eye by drawing the eyelids closer together. The Surprise Muscles One muscle raises the eyelid, as in surprise. It commonly works in