Let's draw feelings. Naturally, it is not at all necessary that a person will hide his emotions

A successful portrait can be considered a work that seems to come to life. What makes a person’s portrait come alive are the emotions displayed on it. In fact, it is not as difficult to draw a person’s emotions as it seems at first glance. If you do not draw from life or from a photograph, then before work you can go to the mirror. You need to take the necessary form and study the changes in your face. The emotions you draw on paper will reflect state of mind the person whose portrait you are depicting.

Sketch

You can draw different emotions only if you have the necessary base, so the first stage in your work is a sketch. When creating a portrait, it is important to consider the angle in order to maintain the correct proportions of the face. Draw the basics you need: the oval of the head, the neck and, if desired, the contours of the shoulders. Draw a vertical line - the axis of symmetry of the face. Divide it with a horizontal line, approximately in a ratio of 1:2, counting from the top edge. The eyes will be located at the height of this line. Draw eyebrows in small arcs. In the middle of the lower, longer, vertical part of the face is the nose. The distance between the eyes and the vertical will be equal to the size of the wings of the nose. Show the mouth with a slightly downward horizontal line. Don't forget to outline the ears and chin, and you can start exploring facial expressions. Emotions drawn in pencil are convenient because, unlike working with other materials, it will be more profitable to generalize forms without drawing everything thoroughly.

Happiness

First let's try to draw emotions happy person. In an enthusiastic state, people's eyes usually do not change, but you can show slight wrinkles that appear around them when you smile. For added effect, you can display slightly dilated pupils. The arches of the eyebrows are slightly raised. A smile can be depicted by curving the line of the mouth and lifting the outer corners of the lips. Don't forget about folds or, if the person you're drawing has them, dimples. Also, when a person smiles, their cheeks rise slightly and appear plumper; to do this, make small downward curved lines under the eyes. If the smile is “open”, then show it with several vertical lines teeth.

Anger

An angry expression on the face is mostly given by eyebrows shifted towards the bridge of the nose. The inner corners of the eyebrows drop strongly, almost pressing against the eyes, while the outer corners, on the contrary, fly up. Because of this, a wrinkle forms on the bridge of the nose, which can be shown with small vertical strokes. The eyes narrow greatly in anger, wrinkles appear under them and near the outer corners, show them with horizontal strokes. The mouth is also important: you can depict an evil grin by drawing teeth and showing the nasolabial fold with lines - from the wings of the nose to the corners of the lips. The shape of the mouth resembles a perfect circle: the upper lip seems to curl down at the corners, while the lower lip forms an upward arch. Due to the fact that the mouth of a screaming person is open, the lower jaw and chin need to be lowered, prolonging the oval of the face. The wings of the nose widen greatly. When creating a portrait evil man You can slightly sharpen your facial features, this will give it a little aggressiveness.

Mockery

The shape of the eyebrows and mouth gives a mocking expression to the face. Raise one eyebrow with an arch, draw the other like a wave, lowering the inner corner. From the side of the raised eyebrow, pull up the wing of the nose. Create a grin by lifting one corner of your lips. Due to this, the entire line of the mouth shifts slightly towards the raised corner. Lower your lower lip, leaving your teeth slightly visible. A fold also forms on the cheek on the side where the smile is extended. Narrow your eyes a little and show small strokes of wrinkles around the outer corners, just like when you smile.

Astonishment

The next emotion we will try to draw is surprise. All elements of the face of a surprised person seem wider and rounder than in a calm state. Let's start with the eyebrows. The arches of the eyebrows are strongly curved, due to this, horizontal folds are formed on the forehead. Or you can raise just one eyebrow, this will give your portrait even more surprise. When the eyebrows rise, the nose rises with them, so extend it upward a little. The eyes are often round and wide. The mouth is slightly open, the shape becomes like an oval, and do not forget to draw the teeth inside it.

Sadness

In sadness, people often lower their heads, and to show this, you need to make the frontal lobe of the oval of the head a little larger, and trim the lower jaw and chin. The eyes do not change their shape, but the gaze tends to be downward (show this by moving the pupil at the bottom of the eye), so the upper eyelids will cover the eyes a little more and appear larger. The inner tips of the eyebrows are raised, and the remaining part follows the shape of the eye, going down in an arc - this can be shown with a curve, a wave-like line. The lips will be tightly closed, and their corners will go down. If the person in your portrait is crying, the shape of his eyes will be narrowed. Tears can be shown with a simple line. The trails of tears, leaving the outer corners of the eyes, follow the lines of the oval of the face and go down to the chin, bending around the cheeks.

Disgust

When expressing disgust, the face seems to wrinkle, so horizontal folds will form on the forehead, a vertical wrinkle will appear between the eyebrows, and a slightly noticeable nasolabial fold will appear near the mouth. Draw the eyebrows as straight as possible and lower them lower towards the eyes, but raise the inner corners up. The eyes will not differ much from the neutral expression, except that they will be slightly narrowed. Disdain is also expressed by raising the upper lip on one side and exposing the teeth.

thoughtfulness

Thoughtfulness - last state, which we will try to draw. The emotions of a thoughtful person are poorly expressed. People usually relax their facial muscles when lost in thought, but the eyebrows may be drawn together in this expression, causing a crease to appear between them. Draw them in a straight line, but slightly raise the upper corners. The eyes do not change shape, but if you draw them a little narrower or completely closed, this will give the portrait even more thoughtfulness. You can look away or down, just draw circles of the iris and pupil not directly in the center of the eye. The lips will be slightly parted, so be sure to show your teeth.

Anxiety

In an anxious person, the facial muscles are uncontrollably tense, so you need to show the folds on the forehead and under the eyes. The eyebrows, as in the expression of sadness, form a wave, while the eyes are wide and round. In addition, a person experiencing anxiety may have slightly dilated pupils. The lips are compressed, so draw the lower lip a little narrower than usual; some people bite it, so you can add a strip of teeth.

We hope this article helped you understand how to draw emotions step by step, and your portrait turned out alive.

Today we move on to lessons drawing anime emotions. We have already gone through lessons with you, lessons on drawing an anime head, we also looked at drawing lessons and, therefore, we will quickly figure it out with this lesson. Now I will try to tell you how to correctly and beautifully draw emotions. On this moment We'll look at a couple of emotions and how to draw them.

Emotions of delight or joy are one of the most popular and common emotions in anime. Most easy way portray delight in it through big eyes, raised eyebrows and a wide open mouth. Also, let's not forget about the glare in the eyes. Here they will not be superfluous.

This character's emotion shows that he is happy. But not like in the previous picture. Here happiness is less emphasized, but from the eyebrows and the smooth curve of the mouth it will be immediately clear that he is certainly not sad.

Here we can notice that the eyebrows are slowly creeping up. The small, drooping mouth went a little to the side. From this facial expression, we can safely say that this character is irritated and dissatisfied.

This character clearly shows that he is not in a very good spirit. The eyebrows are arched downward, the mouth is wide open, which makes us understand that the character is screaming. At the same time, the eyes remain wide open. All this makes it clear to us that the character is embittered.

Sadness is also one of the common emotions. The most important detail here is the eyebrows. Notice how the inner edges of the eyebrows curve upward. Also, her lower eyelids arch only slightly, while her upper eyelids form large, rounded curves. The mouth in this case looks slightly curved downwards. Such a face makes it clear that the hero is sad.

Then I think you will figure it out for yourself. After all, it’s still the same thing emotion may be depicted differently, it all depends on your general composition. But all this comes with experience. So draw more and you will succeed.

I would also like to give you some advice on drawing the entire drawing in one emotions. Even if the background matches emotions your main character. Such a pattern will be ironed much more effectively.

Have you ever noticed features human face on a wood surface, in an electrical outlet, or on a crispy, delicious melted cheese sandwich? Aside from the fact that you might have taken a cough syrup right before this, this is explained by the fact that people by nature are machines for recognizing familiar images. With a special penchant for recognizing faces and the information they display. Our brain automatically notices them even where they are not there.

As a character artist, it is a big oversight to not be able to imbue an inanimate object with life through expressive physiognomy; convey the feelings and thoughts of its owner; make us feel for this character, empathize with him, and even with age continue to feel a special sympathy for ordinary drawings on paper. It’s akin to magic (and maybe even a little absurd).

...However, since you're reading this, I guess there's no point in me advocating the benefits of making characters emotional. Instead, I will make some snarky comments about myself as I present my chaotic notes and subjective judgments regarding the drawing process.

WHAT YOU SHOULD UNINFORM FROM

There are many tricks that allow you to avoid painstaking work over the character's emotionality. Not that they're all harmful, but if you call yourself a character artist, you have to decide how much you'll limit yourself (and your characters) by relying on these tricks. Some examples:

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Yes, I understand that they are “fashionable” (like the plague in the Middle Ages), but besides this they are absolutely monotonous, which makes them look like emoticons, and not real emotions.

Instead you can use distinctive features your characters to make their emotions unique. Or you can continue to plaster these mediocre smiley faces right on their faces, every time you need to revive them. And I will remain passive-aggressive in everything related to this topic.

Permanent “C” shaped Mouth(1 picture) .

Emotions created by open mouth, incredibly save energy and time... but they also look incredibly boring and monotonous.

Flounder-faced commotion(2 picture) .

I am familiar with the practice of having some of a character's facial features, like a majestic flounder, placed on one side of the face. It's terribly sexy. In low-budget animation, they sometimes resort to drawing the mouth in profile in order to avoid animating the lips and chin. This is by no means a separate style and certainly not an excuse for not learning how to draw an emotion in profile.

HOW TO LEARN TO DRAW

A couple of controversial pieces of advice (It all comes down to observation).

TIPS FOR BEGINNERS

Think about everything you study! (It may not have much benefit, but it's worth it.)

Think about the structure of the character: what three-dimensional figures it consists of, and how they are connected to each other.

This is incredibly helpful in understanding how to draw a character from different angles with a face deformed by emotion.

(A.) Don't forget that all facial features are simultaneously involved in creating emotion. And the eyes, and eyebrows, and mouth compress, stretch, shift and twist at the moment when emotion appears on the face.

(b.) When recreating such compression and stretching, animators resort to deliberate violation of the anatomical structure of the body. The more they exaggerate, the more cartoonish the emotion appears.

A small change in the focus of the gaze already significantly changes the facial expression. The pupils drawn in the very center of the eyes depict surprise, as if the character is staring blindly into the distance.

Pupils drawn closer to each other look as if the gaze is focused on a close object, the face looks more fascinated, alarmed.

Practice. And as often as possible.

It's best to start with a rough sketch. Most emotions can be depicted with just a few lines, so there's no need to draw in detail to experiment with facial expressions.

Such quick sketches are a good help for creating more detailed drawings like the ones below.

(Just in case, below, in addition to everything else, I have also included notes on expressions that can debatably be called useful.)

To tone your muscles, come up with different situations for your characters. This will make you think about how to portray emotions more serious than the usual emotions of happiness, sadness, anger, etc. A specific situation usually requires a specific type of emotion: feigned curiosity, slight notes of rage, irritation, a sardonic grin...

For example, here is a passage with an incredibly stupid situation. Essentially, this is an exercise in drawing gestures and emotions.

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As a rule, all cartoon characters are created based on real people.

All drawn heads, regardless of the style of execution, are created based on real ones. In order to turn a real head into a cartoon one, you need to do two things: (1) Forget about detail and 2) exaggerate the most significant elements. This will allow you to more clearly express the character's feelings and display his character. To help you understand what we mean, we have included pictures below. three people performed four artists. Their drawings vary in type of rendering: from realistic to highly stylized. Please note that when conveying a person’s appearance, each artist created a unique, different image.

In the first column There are more realistic heads that are closest in execution to the original. But many details are missed.
(second column) The head can look more cartoonish if you simplify some of the details, in particular the eyes and hair.
(third column) If the character’s appearance is further exaggerated and the head shape is simplified, then he will become even more like a cartoon character.
(fourth column) Even though there is extreme exaggeration and stylization, the heads in this column are similar to those in the first column.

Practice drawing different types goals.

You shouldn’t be content with the ability to draw only a couple of types of heads. Continue to learn new ones, drawing both from examples and from memory. There are over 2 billion potential examples on earth, so you can hardly complain about the lack of new images. Remember that experience comes from practice.

Test for the performance of 25 basic emotions.

This exercise will teach you how to draw the same characters the same way, giving them different expressions, and clearly depict a specific emotion. The best way drawing a character to look like himself is.

How to draw emotions. Emotions in a pencil portrait

In this lesson we will look at how a person's face will change, expressing different emotions. When expressing early emotions, the gaze changes, the pupils (narrow or dilate), the ears rise, the lips stretch into a smile or, on the contrary, narrow, and so on :) Below are the stages of painting a portrait of a person filled with emotions such as happiness, fear, contempt or hatred, anger or anger

How to draw fear, how to draw fear with a pencil.

We start the drawing with an axial thin line and immediately determine the dimensions of the head.

Divide the center line into three equal parts

Using light lines we determine the tip of the nose, the direction of the eyebrows, and the curvature of the eyes.

Using shading we draw eyebrows and pupils. My eyes will be slightly widened (from fear:)

Using shading we sculpt the shape of the nose

We draw hair and ears for our character, apply shading on them

We draw a mouth that will be distorted, thereby conveying the emotion of fear. When a person is afraid of something, a fold forms between the eyebrows. We apply shading to the entire surface of our drawing. That's it, a frightened man is looking at you from the image

how to draw happiness on a person's face

We start the drawing by drawing a thin axial line with a pencil, determining the dimensions of the head

We divide the center line into three equal parts as in the previous stage.

Define the shape of the head with a light line

Without pressing too hard on the pencil, draw the eyebrows, nose, determine the shape of the eyes

Using shading we draw eyebrows and pupils. The eyes will be narrowed as much as possible. When a person smiles, folds form around

Draw the mouth, slightly noticeable dimples will appear on the cheeks, and pronounced cheeks will appear. We draw ears. Using shading we sculpt our entire head.

We add a hairstyle to our character and dress him up. Our drawing is ready.

How to draw contempt, arrogance

As always, we start from the center line. We immediately determine the dimensions of the model’s head.

We divide the center line into three equal parts. This will be the level of the eyebrows and nose.

Draw the outline of the head with a pencil

We draw the nose and eyebrows, outline the neck with a collar

Let's draw the eyes. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the eye shape will be slightly narrowed. We immediately apply shading on the gas, our drawing will begin to come to life.

We outline the folds around the eyes. Because when a person squints, a lot of folds form. Draw a mouth with slightly visible teeth. We outline the chin.

We draw hair and ears for our character

The final stage is to apply shading to the entire surface of our drawing; in places where the shadow passes, we apply shading more intensively. Our drawing is ready.

How to draw anger in a portrait

Draw a center line where our head will be located

Divide the axis into three parts with a pencil. The parts must be equal

Using light lines we define the tip of the nose. Using shading we draw eyebrows. The most important part of the face in this emotion is the eyebrows. They will have sharp outlines.

Let's draw the eyes. The eyebrows will hang over the eyes. Using shading we show the shape of the nose

We draw hair and ears.

Let's draw the mouth. The upper lip will practically not be visible. The mouth will be compressed as much as possible. We apply shading. Our drawing is ready.

The drawing is ready! In front of you is a man drawn in anger with a pencil