Character expression paintingThe following are some key points for drawing characters 'expressions:
** 1. Express expressions through the shape and state of different facial organs **
1. ** Eyebrows **
- The shape of his eyebrows changed greatly under different emotions. For example, when he was happy, his eyebrows might be stretched and longer than their natural state; when he was angry, his eyebrows might be tightly knitted and squeezed in a straight line; when he was surprised, his eyebrows were pressed down in an eight shape; when he was sad, his eyebrows were pressed down by a large margin and the shape was obvious. When the eyebrows were tightly knitted, the tail of the eyebrows relaxed and fell down; when he was confident or full of determination, his eyebrows were raised in an inverted eight shape.
2. ** Eyes *
- The corner of the eye rose or drooped, the size of the iris, and whether there was a highlight, all of which would affect the expression. When he was happy, his eyebrows bulged and curved downward, with a tendency to expand outward, and his eyes might be narrowed. When he was sad, his eyebrows were concave and curved upward. When he was angry, his eyebrows were straight to the middle. When he was surprised, his eyes widened and his pupils shrank. When he was nervous, he added blush and sweat on the basis of surprise. When he was shocked, his eyes widened and even had white eyes, and his eyebrows were raised while pressing down. When he was shy, the expression of his eyes could be expressed by adding details such as flashing highlights in his pupils.
3. ** Mouth **
- The degree of opening and closing the mouth directly reflected the facial emotions. When he smiled, the corners of his mouth rose, when he was sad, the corners of his mouth fell, when he was angry, he gritted his teeth, and when he laughed, his mouth opened wide. For example, when the character was happy, the facial features had a tendency to expand outward, and the mouth was also open and the corners of the mouth were raised. When the character was uncomfortable, the facial features contracted inward, and the corners of the mouth were down.
4. ** Pupils **
- Pupil size and brightness also had an effect on the expression. Squeezing between the eyebrows and narrowing the pupils could show surprise and fear, while eyes without light could show despair, fear, anger, blackness, and other emotions.
** 2. Grasp the drawing of the expression as a whole **
1. ** Multi-angle facial expressions **
- When drawing the head, cross auxiliary lines were used to ensure that the perspective of the face was correct and the proportion of the facial features was correct.
2. ** Different styles of facial expression practice **
- In the process of painting practice, he specially practiced exaggeration, realism, two-dimensional and other styles for different expressions.
3. ** Pay attention to the fusion of expressions and various expressions **
- Humans had six basic expressions: joy, anger, sadness, disgust, surprise, and fear. However, most of the time, their expressions were often a combination of many emotions. For example, there was a sinister smile, a mischievous smile, a hearty laugh, a forced smile, a shy smile, a bitter smile, and so on. Different characters had different eye paintings, such as different corners of the eyes, iris size, eyebrow thickness and height, whether the eyes had high light, and so on. At the same time, pay attention to the distance between the upper eyelashes and the eyes.