All language subtitles for 061 Introduction To Facial Expressions.en

In this lecture we're going to be learning how to draw facial expressions.

Now there's a huge array of facial expressions and we can't really cover them all in this course.

But definitely when you're looking for that specific facial expression I recommend that you look for

some reference and base your facial expression off of that.

But we're going to cover some of the basic facial expressions and these facial expressions can mix and

match different parts so the eyebrows the eyes the mouth all of that can kind of be changed around to

create slightly different facial expressions.

So these are going to be very useful to understand when it comes to drawing facial expressions.

Now when it comes to drawing facial expressions most of it is going to be in the eyes and the eyebrows.

So the shape of the eyes the shape of the eyebrows some of it will also come in the form of the mouth

for the most part it's mostly going to be in the eyes.

So let's go ahead and let's start with the happy facial expression see like as you can see here I drew

four circles and then I kind of drew these little tiny draws coming off them little indication of yours

and these come to curved lines coming off the jaw to indicate the neck just really simple.

You don't even have to draw these or you don't even have to draw the exact same way I did you can do

your own character shape for the head.

But what we really want to focus on is the face.

So when we're drawing somebody that's happy the first thing we need to understand is that they're probably

smiling.

And so the smile that we drew earlier when we're drawing the lips it's basically just going to be almost

like a straight line.

We can kind of exaggerate that a little bit and kind of curve it just like so and then we can go ahead

and draw the bottom part so we start off with kind of that almost half circle shape it resembles that

at least some kind of a shape like that.

And from there we can build off the upper lips just kind of two tiny little points stick up like that

kind of the two lines at the corners of the mouth.

We can go ahead and draw the bottom lip in

that then we can go ahead draw the teeth into if you remember we angle kind of two lines like that.

Fill those corners and dark and then let's go ahead and leave her bottom teeth out.

I'm just going to fill in this bottom area right here with a dark color like that.

And so now we can only see her top teeth.

So there's kind of a nice little smile.

Now when somebody's smiling what's happening is generally their cheeks are kind of being pushed up into

the eyes so you can imagine the cheek is kind of a round ball and it's kind of getting just squashed

up into the eyes a little bit like that.

Same with over here

or something like that.

So we kind of get these lines or sort of that form going on right there.

The nose would kind of go in somewhere right about here.

We can sketch that in in a second before the eyes we want to kind of capture this because she is smiling

she's not smiling super big.

But we do want to kind of capture kind of that squint the eyes really squint when you are truly smiling.

So we kind of get that lying down there so this line rather than being curved it's a lot more kind of

a flat shape.

Want to go ahead and kind of lighten that up by your reasoning because I think it's a little bit too

dark now I can go ahead and draw the rest in.

So go ahead and draw the eyes and like this maybe I'll make those a little bit bigger

and I think that she's actually squinting a little bit too much for how much she's smiling so many go

hungry races lines and kind of bring them down a little bit more.

But I'm so going to keep them pretty flat

while some large those eyes a little bit more

and then let's go ahead and we can kind of sketch in the irises like that and as far as the eyebrows

go and people are smiling you can have them in all kinds of different configurations going up and coming

straight across.

Kevin kind of arched in this case I'm gonna go ahead and I'm I kind of bring them up a little bit like

this.

Same with the sun.

All right great.

Let's go ahead and draw this nose in some chicken and kind of drew the shape like this and do kind of

a slightly curdling connected across like that

there's a little basic nose for the eyes let's go ahead and give this character some eyelashes.

I'm just going to do next door glowing like that there and also do a dark line down here but a little

bit thinner.

I got to go ahead and really darken and outside circle of Iris

Filbert in

go and draw the ears in

just something like that.

And if this was a male I'd probably leave out these two little bumps on the lips I just kind of a straight

line crossed and maybe a straight line across the bottom as well but not a very full bottom left or

anything like that.

He wanted to you could even shading across areas just to give him some blush or her.

Not sure if it's a boy or girl could be the one at this point.

All right.

So there is a happy smile.

Go ahead and give him some hair

anyway.

So there we go.

There's a happy one.

Let's go ahead move on to the angry and sad because these are gonna be very similar.

So let's go ahead and let's start with the eyes because that's gonna be the most important part when

you're drawing somebody that's angry so good and can get an idea of where the nose will be.

We want to put the eyes about the same place where we drew these eyes over here because we're gonna

try to make this kind of the same character.

If yours doesn't look exactly like the first drawing you did that's totally fine.

It's more about understanding what makes up the different facial expressions.

We'll talk more about drawing specific facial expressions and making it look like your same character

over and over again.

OK.

So once we have those eyes kind of blocked out now we want to really block out where those eyebrows

are how.

How angry do we want this person to be how exaggerated.

So we can go ahead bring those eyebrows down now bring it down to somewhere right about there.

So you're basically just gonna angle your eyebrows downwards like this

and once you have that angle downwards.

Well now what we can do is we can go ahead and we can use it information of what the angle of the eyebrow

is to really kind of bring the brow down over the eye a little bit and that kind of helps reshape the

eye.

So if somebody is angry the brow gets kind of pushed down over that a little bit so they almost get

a little bit squinty you're looking

I mean go ahead draw the iris in you can see how that brow hanging down over the IRS more than it might

usually be just kind of makes them look a little bit more angry

and darken in those eyelashes

if you wanted to you can even add kind of a little crease like that and that just kind of make them

look angry so that it looks like their muscles are kind of squishing the skin up together right there

can also show a little bit more of the nostril holes to kind of make it look like the nose is flaring

up a little bit

another thing I'd like to do is I.

When somebody is angry sometimes like to kind of just dark and underneath the eyes just exaggerate that

but that's just kind of a style preference you don't have to do that.

I just think it makes somebody look cool a little bit more scary and angry.

And then for the mouth you could just do a normal mouth going across.

You could do a frowny face.

You can make a face.

It's kind of like really exaggerated like this

where you can kind of see the teeth.

There's different types of mouth as you can do with the angry face

and it really just comes down to what you want to draw.

And again look at reference.

And that will give you a good idea of like all the different types of faces somebody can be making when

they're angry with this.

We just wanna make sure we include those two little bumps there.

Go ahead and draw on the bottom left darknet in

go ahead and troll those ears in

and irises

maybe add a little bit more orange by rounding the edge of the eyebrow out.

There you go.

Draw a few pieces of hair in there for the bangs

drop a napkin.

Perfect.

So what about when somebody is set.

Well basically the eyebrows are going to do the opposite.

So rather than angling down towards the center they're going to angle up towards the center.

So let's go ahead and let's draw what this might look like and just kind of market where my eyes will

go or cut my nose and mouth just really roughly.

Now let's go ahead start by drawing in the eyebrows.

So for the eyebrows we want them to look sad.

And so what we'll do is we'll just kind of angle them like this.

So the curve up like that

just like that.

You know we can go ahead and can add the same lines like this just to kind of show the distressed muscles

there and we want the brow to kind of hang down over this as well just a little bit.

So it kind of also shapes S.I. again but in the opposite direction so rather than angled downwards the

angle a little bit more up

and than irises

and sketching her nose.

Now these facial expressions they apply to basically all characters.

This might not be the best character design in the world.

I'm just kind of making this up off the spot.

But once you develop a character then you can learn how you can take what I'm teaching you here and

learn how to draw all their different facial expressions so that you can get a wide array of if you're

drawing a comic book you can have different scenes for that character whether evoking different emotions

all that's gonna be really important.

So right now I don't want to focus too much on your character design.

If you're just trying to draw exactly what I'm drawing that's great.

I mostly want you to just remember what what are the key points in every facial features so when you're

happy.

What are the eyebrows look like.

What are the eyes look like when you're sad.

How did the eyebrows angle and how did the shape of the eyes kind of change.

That's really what I wanted to focus on.

So when people are sad they can have different nails as well.

You can just have a very frowny face.

You could do like kind of a pouty lip where they're very sad like that almost about to cry or you could

have somebody that is kind of kind of holding back and so they might kind of like angled down like this

but they might have their lips kind of pierced like that.

They're trying to stop themselves from feeling any emotion maybe but they can't help it they're sad.

There's a couple different things you can do.

We'll just do something nice and simple like that it's kind of like a line like that you go and fill

in the eyes

the ears

some like that.

All right then lastly let's talk about how you make a surprised face So earlier when we learn how to

draw the eye you might have remembered that I said you don't want to have any of the white showing above

the IRA.

So the color part of the eye shouldn't be any white showing unless you want them to look surprised.

So let's go ahead and let's draw this.

So go ahead Mark my eyes once again figure out where I want those about

figure out where I want my nose to be about all right.

Great.

So if you're drawing somebody that surprised first of all their eyebrows are gonna be really high so

they're going to be kind of like the happy face and maybe even a little bit higher so we can make these

eyebrows really arched

something like that

don't get too detailed into the shape of the design of this.

We can we can keep this as simple as you want if you really want to.

You could just be drawing almost like a stick figure versions of the face like smiley faces and just

lines for the eyebrows just so you kind of remember what the different facial expressions kind of are

made up out of.

So then for the eyes what we're gonna do is we want to really extend the art.

So here we want this art to be extended even a little bit higher because we wanna expose the one of

the eyes

so that

it's almost just like a big arch like a rainbow

when we draw our irises and remember that we want to have some of the white of the eye showing above

the IRA so you can see here that the top of that island is touching the IRS but right here where they're

surprised we want there to be a little bit of a white area above there and that automatically makes

them look like they're surprised even if you cover the the eyebrows.

You can see that the eye still look surprise.

So that's the key thing to making some you look surprise or this also works for somebody that's nervous

or scared showing the one of the eyes just makes somebody look a lot more intense.

So this applies to a couple different facial features and then as for the mouth usually if somebody's

surprise or mouth is probably gonna be open so we'll go ahead and draw this character kind of with a

dropped jaw.

So let's see let's kind of make it like

kind of draw in sort of an overlay or circle like that.

And what happens is when somebody opens or jaw their face kind of stretches out as the draw opens.

So we can go ahead and kind of stretch her face out like this

looks pretty good.

Then we can go ahead and we can draw some teeth in here so go ahead just kind of draw a line like that

for the upper teeth.

We can have some bottom teeth in there if we really want to.

So kind of

strong the bottom teeth like that.

As an angle as the teeth angle downwards you're gonna get more of a view like that kind of that curve

white shape.

All right so let's go ahead drawn the lips

and draw on the bottom lips

that we can go ahead and fill in this dark area here.

We can actually leave kind of the shape of a tongue right there right into the bottom teeth maybe I'll

make these front teeth just a little bit less tall

that so we've got a nice open wide jaw now can go ahead and finish drawing the joy darkened unit

it's gonna draw the eyes darken in those upper eyelashes

do a little of a thin dark line for the bottom eyelashes

and sometimes you can even kind of just add like a line like that just kind of really make them look

a little bit more distress in their eyelids just because their eyes are getting stretched out so you'd

really see those eyelids and the more of the white of the eye you show the more intense you're gonna

love just see how

these actually all kind of turned out looking like different characters are given more different hairstyles

but that's all right we're just trying to understand the facial features for now

right great.

So there we go.

There are some pretty basic facial features and like I said you can mix and match this stuff.

So for example if you really wanted to you could like take the smile for example and put it on this

character and they had a smile and almost make them look creepy because I have an angry upper face but

then the bottom of their face has a big smile or grin.

You can go ahead and take this mouth for example put it on the angry one and they're slick angry or

you could go ahead and take this mouth right there and you could put it onto this right there and I

would just give them a completely different look.

And so by mixing matching these you can get most of the facial expressions that you'd want to create.

There's a few out there that we didn't go over but you can definitely look into it yourself.

Look at other people's character designs and see how they create those facial features.

And just remember that you always want to try to simplify things as much as possible.

I know we haven't talked a whole bunch about that before and talk about it soon.

So that's one of the key parts of character design is just simplifying.

Thanks for watching and I'll see you guys in the next lecture.