What do you think? Doesn’t the feeling of laughing come across better than the first drawing? We hold our stomachs or maybe our shoulders shake, etc. Let’s think about what we do when we are laughing. This time, we’ll make them pose accurately in order to convey more “emotion” to the viewer. Let them do poses and gestures that match their emotions.įor example, no one usually poses like this when laughing, right? Let’s make the most of it! Make them do poses (gestures). It’s so powerful that even without a face, just the sign of a manpuku can convey emotion. It is a comical and comprehensive way of expressing and conveying emotions. Manpuku are icons (sweat, anger, etc.) often used in cartoons. Draw expressions that fit her body parts.Any visual medium outside of filmmaking is great to study and to be inspired by. While you’re at it, get his groundbreaking book "Understanding Comics." It’s a great study of the comic medium which has similarities to filmmaking. But you can study this and save them for reference.Īnother great resource that goes into great detail on expressions is a chapter in Scott McCloud’s book "Making Comics," the third book in his Comics series. Many are meant for cartoonists and a bit extreme at times. There are a lot of facial expression examples online to use as a reference and I’ll list some in the description. It takes a little practice.įor a profile, one eye on that line, nose, and the mouth I’ll draw half of. I’ll draw two ovals for the eyes on that line. A vertical line of the nose, which I’ll put between the top and bottom of the ear and horizontal line for the eye. What’s nice are the reference lines for the face. I’m going to use the reference layer in Storyboarder, a free and awesome program and draw right onto it. Let's add these to a 3/4 view of a character. Now, these expressions have been straight on, looking at the camera. My finger hurts from hitting undo 100 times. Now when you start, you may get frustrated and trust me I know, you’re just not seeing it because we’ve edited it out. ![]() We can do even more by changing the eyes: half closed, to the side, closed, rolled up.Įven though this looks easy, there is some work to it and practice. You can see how the combination of different eyebrows and mouths give you different expressions that we can label such as happy, sad, shocked, and angry. We can open the mouth into a frown, square it with a line for clenched teeth, curve the bottom, or turned up. You can see how the expressions change just by using a different mouth shapeįor the next row, we’ll do the same thing but with the eyebrows wider Next, I’ll add a short line for a closed mouth. ![]() Now for the first row, I’ll draw in eyebrows that are just lines above the eyes Think of it as a kids character flip book where they swap out facial features to create characters, but here you swap out the different elements that make up expressions: the eyebrow, eyes, and mouth.ĭraw a long circle for a face, circles for eyes about 1/3 from the top, dots for eyeballs, and nose if you want. If you’re not used to drawing or drawing expressions, no problem, you’ll find it’s actually easier then you think. In my storyboarding video, I mention the importance of expressions to help convey the emotion of what you would like to show visually.įor me, storyboards are not only an aid for the framing of people and objects, but also what emotionally do I need to convey for an edit to work. For your shooting storyboards, whether you draw your own or use the free and awesome Storyboarder program, would it nice to add some expressions? I’m going to show you how using some tips from the cartooning world.
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