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50 Facial Expressions and How to Draw Them

50 Facial Expressions and How to Draw Them
December 6th, 2007 Here’s a guide to drawing a variety of different emotions, moods, and characters. UPDATE: Do you want to use this post or images? I am adding this update because I am asked about this post A LOT. Please review these guidelines before emailing me. If you are a parent or teacher and want to use the chart/tips/images in a purely personal or educational way for your kids or students in the confines of your home or classroom: That is fine with me. If you have any doubts or questions about these guidelines, please contact me before using any part of this post or the corresponding PDF. Tips for Drawing Facial Expressions The Most Important Features The Eyes – Probably the most important feature for evoking a clear emotion. Additional Tips Note that when you move the shape and position of one feature, it affects everything else. Facial Expressions Chart Happy Ecstatic Content Sad Depressed Embarrassed Nervous Angry Furious Devious Bored Annoyed Surprised Tired Exhausted Disgusted Something Stinks

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Create a Pencil Drawing of a Face In this demo, I create a charcoal pencil drawing a face. If you haven't drawn a face successfully already, you may want to brush up on basics of drawing a human head before working through this page. I always say that knowing how the human head is structured sets you more at ease when drawing people. The woman I will be drawing is turning away from us toward her right side. As this is to be a pencil drawing of a face, I won't cover anything beyond her head and neck. Drawing a human face is challenging enough, and I do not want to overwhelm you with more than that. Lackadaisy Expressions Boy, I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I started this. I've had requests for some sort of expressions tutorial dating back a while now, so I figured, "Sure! I can explain expression drawing...and it'll be way better than all those tutorials out there that are nothing but charts of generic expressions. Yeah! Just give me a day or two to whip something up..." Um.

A Singular Creation Art Community & Tutorial: Matching Colors - StumbleUpon Hello all, here is a tutorial on matching colors that was provided for us by Bill Martin. Bill has taught at the University of California, The San Francisco Art Institute and San Jose State University among others. His paintings have been shown in major art museums all over the world. I would like to thank him for offering his knowledge to the A Singular Creation Art Community.

FindInspirations.com - StumbleUpon Silvia Pavarini, Italywebsite: silviapavarini.blogspot.com Monsieur Qui, Pariswebsite: monsieurqui.com Stella im Hultberg, USAwebsite: art scrap blog Yoco Nagamiya, Japanwebsite: yoco-nagamiya.jp Miwa Kaburaki, Japanwebsite: miwakaburaki.com Stan Prokopenkos Blog - StumbleUpon For a video version of this tutorial visit www.proko.com/how-to-draw-eyes-structure This tutorial is a continuation of How to Draw the Head from Any Angle. I will go over the structure of the eye and detailed information on drawing the brow ridge, eyeball, eyelids, eyelashes, iris, cornea, and pupil. The Basic Forms

7 Tutorials on How to Draw the Human Anatomy / Body / Figure 39 Comments | July 1, 2008 Here are 7 tutorials I’ve found on the net, some better than others. If you know if any other good ones, please share in the comments! “Figure Drawing for All It’s Worth” by Andrew Loomis (PDF, 24MB)

Gustav Courbet : History of Erotic Art Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918) was an Austrian artist from Vienna who was one of the pioneers of Symbolism and Art Nouveau who is best known for his paintings though was also an incredibly prolific draftsman. "All art is erotic" — Gustav Klimt We usually use self portraits of the artists on ErotiCart, however Klimt famously has no self portrait and is popularly quoted saying "I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above all women...There is nothing special about me. I am a painter who paints day after day from morning to night...Who ever wants to know something about me... ought to look carefully at my pictures."

35 Inspiring Color Palettes from Master Painters Putting together a great color palette for your design work can be one of the most challenging aspects of any project. And many times, color palettes are built from some source of inspiration. So why not be inspired by some of history’s greatest master artists?

It's me problem too... Draw is not my best performance, but, one of these day !!! ;) by sergedemontreal Dec 15

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