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 I'll make it 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. Sometime a lot more than two days later, I have this messy behemoth and the realization that I haven't a clue how to teach expression drawing. There's just so much material to cover, and so much of it is like intuitive language translation, I can't figure how to put it into tutorial form any more than I could draw a picture of how to speak Russian. I guess that's why expression tutorials are mostly just charts of what happy, sad, and confused look like.
Anyway, I found all I could really do was try to explain ways to teach yourself...and then add some pictures. Hopefully that makes for something at least marginally informative.
And if you haven't seen it yet, check out
this very illuminating look at expressions by alexds1.
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EDIT:Wow.
Thank you to those who suggested this as a DD, and for featuring it. Thanks for all the comments too. I'm both thrilled and honored that this has been deemed helpful or informative by so many!
*high fives self and misses*
but other than that, there is no reason for it to exist
My character named blue has a high-functioning mental disorder known as aspergers or autism, which in real life causes some slight differences in expression. A normal person would show different body language than a person with this disorder. The problem is; that even if i could figure out how to draw the expression properly, people might write it off as not very well drawn due to the natural uncanny effect that the disorder has on expression.
How would i go about finding a happy medium between normal expression and the somewhat uncanny expression of an autistic person?
...I hope that helps!
AND REALLY BEAUTIFUL.
And hopefully useful.
Thank you!