From the course: Learning Character Development and Design
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Facial expressions
From the course: Learning Character Development and Design
Facial expressions
- Similar to anatomy, mapping out basic facial expressions through a variety of resources, will lend expressive possibilities for your characters to emote and express him, her, or itself. Facial expressions clue the viewer in to how the character's feeling at a given moment, and guide us to the emotional content of a scene. Capturing believable, resonant expressions is critical to successful character development. Some illustrators rely on memory to capture expressions and personality. Carter Goodrich maintains that he tries to imagine who or what the character or personality of that character is. Success is more likely if he can conjure up the memory of someone he once knew, who might be an interesting fit. Exploring the face of your character, displaying a variety of emotions in sketch form, helps to define who the character is, and how they react to different situations in a story line. Here are three very different character types explored in this way. The facial expressions of…
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Shapes and silhouettes3m 1s
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Gesture and silhouettes4m 51s
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Anatomy and proportion2m 34s
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Anatomy and proportion: Demo4m 51s
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Turnarounds1m 48s
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Anatomy and turnarounds: Demo3m 48s
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Facial expressions5m 42s
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Research the details4m 52s
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Color basics3m 2s
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Color your character2m 11s
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Color your character: Demo3m 32s
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