Studio Hard Deluxe - Draw Anime Faces and Feelings: 800 facial expressions from joy to terror, anger, surprise, sadness and more

Reading peoples facial expressions is part of everyday lifeits how we assess the emotions of our friends, family, co-workers, and even complete strangers. And when drawing, its important to capture accurate facial expressions to convey a characters feelings without the need for words.

This book includes over 800 examples illustrating how to draw facial expressions. Chapter 1 introduces the basic mechanisms of facial expressions and methods for drawing the face. In Chapter 2, youll learn how to draw facial expressions for six universal emotions: joy, anger, sadness, surprise, fear, and disgust, as well as the varying intensities at which these emotions can be experienced. Chapter 3 showcases specific facial expressions for scenes and storylines that commonly appear in manga, such as romantic encounters, important conversations, and daily life. Finally, Chapter 4 focuses on drawing methods for hair, which is essential when drawing faces and developing characters.

Use this book as a reference whenever you have a question about drawing faces for your characters. Our goal is to help you develop as an artist and make your characters and their stories stronger than ever before.

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We make various facial expressions in daily life. They are often unconscious responses, a reaction to something we see or hearwe rarely consciously change our expressions. When creating manga illustrations, its important to capture expressions in the moment in order to show your readers exactly what a character is feeling. Before starting to draw them, lets think about when those expressions are created.

Emotional Expressions

Humans experience feelings such as joy, sadness, or anger through what they see, hear, or communicate. The emotional response then moves the muscles of the face to create expressions that we can recognize.

Crying out of frustration

Grinning

Recoiling in fear

Feeling wounded

Becoming angry

Physiological Expressions

When the body is presented with certain stimuli, such as heat, cold, sickness, or exhaustion, facial expressions are automatic, involuntary reactions that we cannot control.

Cold

Sleepy

Sick

Hot