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The body part that shows expression of the heart most is the face.

Facial Expression

When the expressions of the character are drawn vividly, your work will be impressive indeed.

The body part that shows expression of the heart most is the face.

Normal state

Emotionless Expression

Emotionless Expression

Loud laughter

The louder the laugh, the more the heart is expressed. The mouth opens wider and more voice wants to come forth.

Laughter

Depending upon the degree of laughter, the eyes narrow.

Smile

When happy, the outside facial muscle loosens and eyebrow, eyes and mouth are drawn in a curved line.

Being upset

When angry, the muscles bunch together into the center.

Uiolent anger

When very angry,the ends of the eyes lift up.

Rnger

Depending upon the degree of anger, wrinkles show up in the middle of the face.

Uiolent anger

When very angry,the ends of the eyes lift up.

Rnger

Depending upon the degree of anger, wrinkles show up in the middle of the face.

Being upset

When angry, the muscles bunch together into the center.

Crging ^ Sorrow

The eyelids are pulled Hrf" "Vy When sorrowful, the by the muscles of eyebrows will bend

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When crying loudly, the eyes may open but it depends on the emotional strength of the heart.

Crging ^ Sorrow

The eyelids are pulled Hrf" "Vy When sorrowful, the by the muscles of eyebrows will bend eyebrows.

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Thinking

When you look at someone who is speaking while thinking, you see that their gaze is averted.

Troubled

This expression is similar to sorrow.

Surprise

With surprise, the eyes widen. A useful tip is to draw sweat in order to look like the way it should be.

Relief

The eye shape here is the main point.

Crg smilingly

Draw a crying face but make the mouth smile.

Fright

When frightened, the face looks pale or tense.

Relief

The eye shape here is the main point.

Crg smilingly

Draw a crying face but make the mouth smile.

Expression is composed of movements of eyebrows, eyes and mouth. Even in cases of deformation, you will be able to express what you want if you understand the basic shapes of those movements. The difficulty of creating expression is that there are slight differences in even laughing depending on each situation.

By YuKinutani/Enix/G Fantasy/from "Lucky Raccoon"

Study different ways of drawing expressions in cartoons by looking at your own face in the mirror and see how to create expression yourself.

By YuKinutani/Enix/G Fantasy/from "Lucky Raccoon"

Studying how to position the eyes

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The difference between adults and children

Please have a look at the drawings below. The proportions of eyes and nose are different between adults and children.

Basic partitioning of the head

The eyebrow line falls at 1/2 in infancy, but the eye line position becomes higher with maturity.

Adult partitioning starts from age 16.

Facial expression at different ages

Let's look at the difference in expression at various ages.

By Yu Kinutani/Media Works/Dengeki Comics EX/from "Angel Arm"

By Yu Kinutani/Media Works/Dengeki Comics EX/from "Angel Arm"

Early twenties and up to 30 years old

60 to 80 years old

The difference between girls and women is that you draw girls' eyes larger and use child's facial proportions on the other hand,when you draw the eyes narrower and the nose a little longer, it looks, more adult.

Early twenties and up to 30 years old

In order to draw an aged face, you simply put in wrinkles. Cheeks and jaws loosen downwards, and the skeleton starts to show through. Depending on the age, you may draw thinner hair or gray hair.

60 to 80 years old

ByYu Kinutani/Media Works/Dengeki Comics EX/from "Angel Arm"

The difference between men and women

By Yu Kiriutani/Media Works/Dengeki Comics EX/from "Angel Arm"

There is almost no difference in the facial construction between men and women, however, you draw the woman's face a little bit smaller than the man's face, and the woman's eyes a little bit bigger, the mouth and the nose a little bit smaller. By drawing the mouth and nose a little bit smaller, the effect is more delicate and cute. In order to draw manliness, draw the mouth and nose a little bit larger.

Holu to draw hair

You may want to draw floating hair, as when the character moves or the wind blows. Movement can also create wind and floating hair.

A so-called head-wind is created from the direction the movement goes into.

Direction of movement

Direction of movement

Direction of movement

Direction of movement

Hair moves and follows later the movement of the body.

Gravity Please consider gravity.

Braiding hair

You may want to draw girls wearing braided hair. Once you start drawing, however, you may have difficulty with the way it is braided at the back of the head.

Here are some examples for your reference.

When you draw highlights, you should use less than 1 mm of the brush pen tip.

Brush Pen

Here we try several kinds of hair highlights using a brush-pen and/or tone.

Drawing highlights as if you were drawing hair strand by strand.

(DStart drawing over the rough copy, using a brush pen.

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Sharpness is the ®Think about the hair movement key point w*ien you want t0 draw highlights, and make a rough copy.

Brush Pen

(DStart drawing over the rough copy, using a brush pen.

When you draw highlights, you should use less than 1 mm of the brush pen tip.

Here we try several kinds of hair highlights using a brush-pen and/or tone.

Drawing highlights as if you were drawing hair strand by strand.

If your grip is not correct, you may not be able to draw lines well.

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