emotion Tag

16 Aug

Posted at 13:20h in Character Design, Pose Drawing Sparkbook, Sketchbook (The Unfunny Stuff)

(This excerpt is from a rough draft of  the Pose Drawing Sparkbook, a super-charged sketchbook designed to help you put more life and personality into your drawings. Think of it as acting exercises for your sketchbook.Read other snippets here and here.) As human beings we all experience the same basic emotions, but everyone has their own unique personality through which those emotions are filtered. This can...

21 Mar

Posted at 22:26h in Sketchbook (The Unfunny Stuff)

Today's Sketchbook Month entry is a few studies on how to convey the emotion of fear. My notes are based partly on the excellent book "The Artist's Complete Guide To Facial Expression" by Gary Faigin (Amazon.com link). Full disclosure: If you click on the Amazon link and then buy something, Amazon will drop a few coins into my checking account. ...