So now I'm going to draw a plain face
to explain facial expressions
and manga symbols
So first draw a plain
kind of very neutral facial expression face
I'm drawing on my tablet.
Ok something like this
I'm going to
make him
HAPPY!
HAPPY! ヽ(•‿•)ノ
First I erase his eyes
and his mouth
The most significant things that happen when you are happy are
you are either
smiling
or laughing
but the point for a genuinely happy face is
when you are laughing
your cheekbones go up.
So quite automatically
you actually half close your eyes
like this.
Or even close your eyes completely.
Like that.
And you can even change his eyebrows
and loosen up more.
You're happy, you're relaxing
so your eyebrows loosen up a bit.
And then this is the first manga symbol I'm going to add
it's blush on the cheek.
The opposite to the happiness
is kind of
anger or sadness
but I'm going to make this guy
ANGRY!
ANGRY! (•̀o•́)ง
So an angry face
I think
the most important thing is eyebrows.
Well, eyebrows and mouth are always very important
for drawing facial expressions.
You really have to observe how they move
Oh I've got a really interesting facial expression.
When you're angry you
kind of
grind your teeth
like that.
and you open your eyes
maybe make them slightly closed
but in the opposite region to the happy face
So this is angry face
with eyebrows that are really kind of tense
and a mouth open
with teeth grinding
and I kept those rosy cheeks
so it looks like he's embarrassed (. ❛ _ ❛.)
and angry (•̀o•́)ง
and confused ヽ(。_°)ノ?
those kind of things.
Now let's get rid of this thing
and add very famous
typical
angry veins
like this
It's a very kind of
One of the most well known
best known manga symbols
it's the angry mark
you can put it on the character's forehead
or maybe even here
something like that
then a lot of people automatically know
that this character is angry.
So what is quite interesting is
if you keep this angry mark
and change this character's face slightly
then you will get a guy who is really angry inside
but trying to smile
The point is this angry mark
as well as a one side up smile
The next one I'm going to show you is
crying sad face ( ͒˃̩̩⌂˂̩̩ ͒)
When you are sad
your facial features are almost kind of going down.
Without eyes it already looks like this guy is sad.
and again
if you draw that character's eyes
kind of half closed
it looks more sad
and another manga symbol
that you can add is tear
If you draw tears like this
it gets slightly more cartoony
or comical
but if you add tear drops
like this and this
you can get a kind of serious tears
like that
So the next step is
totally the opposite
so this is all kind of down and a closed kind of face
it's a sad face
Now I'm going to do a face that's surprising
(°□°)
Erase everything
keep the nose
When you are surprised
your features get wide
open eyes
wide open
mouth wide open
and when you open your eyes automatically your eyebrows go up
So this is a very basic surprised face
and if you add...
do you remember that rosy cheek?
Those rosy cheeks
makes this face slightly more pleasantly surprised
but if you change the eyebrows
with sad eyebrows
you get surprised and embarrassed at the same time.
And another thing you can do is
change the eyebrows
for angry ones
then you get a not very pleasant
actually a shocking surprised face.
So it's all mix and match
The key features are eyebrows, mouth
and how much the eyes are closed or open
that kind of thing.
And also with a lot of those different manga symbols
you can create a lot of different kind of facial expressions
and almost like
those emotions which are really complicated ones as well
So try to mix and match yourself
and have fun
Thank you so much for watching our Manga Month
it's been an incredible time and sadly it's over
( ͒˃̩̩⌂˂̩̩ ͒)
but happily the exhibition isn't!
o(*^▽^*)o
It's on until August 26
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