First post - Facial expressions.

In the first week, we have been looking at expressions that characters use to show their emotions, in particular facial expressions, I have been looking at different facial expressions on line, and I decided that I would sketch my own to get a better understanding of how effective different aspects of the face show a characters emotion.

The face is broken down into, eye brows, eyes, nose, mouth and any other wrinkles/creases, when I started to draw the facial expressions for different emotions such as happy, sad etc. I drew from top to bottom starting with the eyebrows, I found that just slightly different positions automatically change the emotion of the character, a very slight move of an eyebrow, eye shape, mouth shape, and different creases in the face provide an emotion for the character.  I also found that to really emphasis a characters emotion, the facial expression should be exaggerated, for example if the character is angry, the eyebrows should be pointing downwards quite dramatically to help emphasis anger.

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/296/f/a/cartoon_ish_facial_expressions_by_existtraiesc-d4drgfg.jpg