How to draw Emotions & Facial Expressions _ Tutorial _ DrawlikeaSir

Hi guys , my name is Marcel .

And today you're gonna learn how to draw .

Like sir , today's video is gonna be a video about drawing expressions and emotions .

And in fact , that's one of the most important things you could learn when it comes to drawing , especially comic or manga because you can always impress somebody by drawing a cool action or fight sequence .

But when it comes to drawing something that doesn't involve action , facial expressions and emotions get even more important than they already are .

So it doesn't matter what kind of style you prefer if it's comic or manga or , or just art in general .

Today's video is about the five most important facial expressions and how you could draw them .

Let's go now as a warm up , let's just take a look at a neutral expression .

Now here I made a little graph .

This will appear throughout the video .

So you can check this out when it's on screen .

As you can see the cursor is right in the center of the graph .

So the upcoming expression does not have a shred of emotion .

The most important thing when it comes to facial expressions are eyebrows eyes and mouth .

But why are those the most important ones ?

Let's take a look .

Even the most slightest change in any of these factors can make for an emotion .

That's also something you can spot on my graph .

On the left side .

Of course , all three factors are equally important , but the eyebrows do of course , have a special kind of importance to them .

They alone can express a whole bunch of emotions just by themselves .

Either way , this here is a truly neutral facial expression .

As you can see , I did not draw any wrinkles in this face yet .

That's partly because I'm drawing a very young person here , but also because we are going to need wrinkles to express emotion later on .

So keep that in mind , drawing a happy character should be easy , right ?

All you have to do is drawing the corners of the mouth upwards or is it , is there a way to get even more expressive ?

If you paid attention , then you would know that eyes and eyebrows are equally as important as the mouth ?

So why would you leave those factors out ?

Would be kind of a waste , wouldn't it ?

So now that we took care of that , what else could we change here ?

You can see a couple of stock photos I just took from Google images .

And as you can see both persons have visible wrinkles on their faces .

In fact , that's something you can spot in the sea of Marvel comics quite often , all of those characters are portrayed with wrinkles on their faces , especially when they are laughing or being happy .

But I guess you know that if you have ever touched a Superman comic in your life before , either way , wrinkles make expressions more believable , but keep in mind different people have different wrinkles in their faces .

Some people , for example , have wrinkles on their eyes when they are laughing like James Franco here .

So that means you have to open Google images yourself and just get going search up happy people and take a look how their wrinkles behave .

If you incorporate some different wrinkles , then maybe you yourself can make your own individual style by drawing wrinkles that no one else does .

Portraying anger is something I find to be very easy .

That's because you have the freedom of drawing a lot of wrinkles .

So as you might know , drawing more wrinkles means you can draw more details and drawing more details is always a good thing or in most cases , at least , in fact , this is a prime example of seeing how expressionless a face looks without wrinkles .

The most important wrinkles are between your eyes DB Z style , but also underneath your eyes and also literally on your nose .

If you have been attentive , then you know leaving out eyes , eyebrows or your mouth is a waste .

And in this scenario , the mouth is especially important and that I'll prove to you tell me which of both images looks more angry to you .

Let's just take a look at the eyes .

I admit the eyes alone look pretty damn intimidating .

But I think we can all agree that the mouth is what makes the difference here .

Older the artist of one piece is pretty damn genius .

When it comes to expressions , he stretches faces to their utmost limits and he's also not afraid to do the same thing with female characters .

Oh But back on topic , which wrinkles you could draw is something that depends on the situation .

So in this case as well , Google images is your friend .

I gotta say , I feel kind of like an idiot always have this spelling out to you how an expression has to look like because everyone knows how a sad person looks like , right ?

Your eyebrows are frowning and the corners of your mouth go downwards .

But I think you can tell that we can go further than this .

Let's take another look at artworks from odor because he can draw sadness quite subtle , but also pretty damn expressive .

And in my humble opinion , I have to say that I think the most common mistake when it comes to drawing expressions is people being way too concerned with how pretty a character has to look like .

And of course , you can still draw characters pretty and without wrinkles .

If you personally prefer aesthetics , then that's completely up to you .

But you can also neglect beauty and just draw a few more wrinkles in there and that's making your characters a lot more expressive .

I'm just here to tell you how things work , how or if you apply this knowledge that's completely up to you .

But back on topic , frowning eyebrows meet on your forehead .

It's quite the polar opposite to anger .

You know , because when you're angry , your eyebrows meet more down between your eyes .

Also , another thing I'd like to add quite like anger .

Sadness is quite versatile .

So that's why of course you might have guessed it already just open up Google images and search some references from out there .

The last um emotion if you could call it , that is shock .

Of course , what everybody thinks of first is eyes being widened and eyebrows being raised .

Also like with all the other emotions , you can also use this emotion quite versatile .

You could put right this emotion , three different levels , lightly shocked , heavily shocked or one piece .

Also another thing I'd like to add concerning the wrinkles here , you can see a stock photo of a shocked person on this photo .

You can spot that shocked people mostly have wrinkles right on their forehead , but there are different ways of portraying shock .

So that's just an example , of course , also something else that I found out while researching was that there's a shockingly large amount of stock photos of bald men trying to comb their nonexistent hair while being shocked .

Yeah , that's the internet for you , by the way , drawing the mouth of a shocked person is something that also depends on the situation .

In my humble opinion , I would say that you can't go wrong with drawing your mouth open .

You know , really depends .

You can be surprised in a good way or you could be surprised in a less fortunate way .

You can just go ahead and make some other emotions in there , which brings us to our last topic .

So here we have a little bonus chapter to this video .

Sometimes it may help to just combine emotions .

I think the graph I made may help you out with that .

I mentioned before that you could be happily shocked , like surprised in a good kind of way .

But there's also people that have an emotion of being frustrated , for example , that would be a combination of being angry and sad at the same time .

There's so much you could draw here .

The possibilities are practically unlimited .

So go ahead and try it out yourself .

You do not have anything to lose .

So that's it for today's video .

Thank you so much for watching as you might have guessed my videos are pretty damn time consuming .

So if you could help me out , I would appreciate that liking the video and leaving a positive comment goes a long way .

Believe me .

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I've been Marcel and I'll see you in the next video .

Bye .