Drawing Tips for Expressive Features
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Creating Expressive Eyes - the Window of the Soul
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 Step 1: Draw two circles and two pupils within. |
 Step 2: Draw eyelids. |
 Step 3: A few more lines for detail. |
 Step 4: Adding colour and highlights always brings eyes to life. |
Can you guess which eyes are sad, sleepy, suspicious, happy, angry and worried? |
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Creating Expressive Mouths - Lines Say a Thousand Words
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 Step 1: Draw shapes with different expressive mouths. |
 Step 2: See if you can upgrade the expression. Example: if you have drawn a mad face now see if you can draw it really angry. |
Which faces go from happy to delighted / surprised to shocked / nervous to scared / happy to delighted? |
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Now let's use the above techniques on a cartoon character.
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 Step 1: Draw a circle and a cross where you want your character face. |
 Step 2: Draw basic shapes of face. |
 Step 3: Add facial detail. |
 Step 4: Try adding accessories like a hat. |
 Step 5: Once you are happy with your line work, add colour. |
It should be easy to guess which face is annoyed, surprised, happy and guilty? |
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A quick look at those tricky hands and feet.
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Drawing Hands: hands are tricky at the best of times. You have to break them down to their basic shapes. Stop seeing them as hands and reduce them to sausages and circles.
Hint on hands: don't overwork them, keep it simple, less is more. |
| Drawing Feet: same principle as drawing hands, find the shapes and remember, less is more. |
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