How to draw girls' facial expressions: Gestures, poses, and emotional expressions

Categories：Figure Drawing Guide

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The author is Kakimaku, an extremely popular illustrator with about 110,000 followers on Instagram.A book on illustration techniques for drawing girls with a popular 2.5-dimensional touch!

Don't you want to draw girls like those in fashion magazines?

?@Facial expressions are the outward expression of our inner feelings. By skillfully drawing the information function of facial expressions, you can create illustrations that convey many times more information than before.
In addition to various basic female emotional expressions such as "joy,'' "surprise,'' "fear,'' "disgust,'' "anger,'' "sadness,'' and "enthusiasm,'' we will explain how to draw illustrations with an ennui style, such as scenes from movies or cuts from fashion magazines and photo books.
The currently trending 2.5-dimensional touch is between realistic expression and cartoon-like expression. How to draw facial parts such as eyes, mouth, nose, ears, etc. is explained in detail on several pages each. This is an illustration technique book that allows you to learn not only facial expressions, but also techniques to convey charm through gestures, such as adding hands, posing, and drawing to make girls shine.

??Content introduction

Introduction

PART-1 Draw an attractive girl
What is facial expression? What is emotion? What is a gesture? What is a pose?
Chapter-1: How to draw a front face
Chapter-2: How to draw a profile + diagonal face
Chapter-3: How to draw eyes
Chapter-4: How to draw eyebrows
Chapter-5: How to draw a nose
Chapter-6: How to draw a mouth
Chapter-7: How to draw ears

PART-2: How to draw hair
Hairstyle is a part that has an impact on a person's appearance, just like facial expressions. We will explain the important points to keep in mind when drawing hair (line drawings), the different types of hairstyles, and the steps to take.
Chapter-1: Let's practice drawing lines smoothly!
Chapter-2: Drawing different hairstyles
Bob hair/Short hair/Long hair/Twintails

PART-3: Differentiating between emotions, anger, sadness, and joy
Emotions are various emotions such as "joy," "anger," "sadness," and "enthusiasm."
Chapter-1: Joy
Chapter-2: Anger
Chapter-3: Sadness
Chapter-4: Comfort

PART-4: Creating facial expressions with poses
Introducing explanations on how to pose, composition, and placement to make it more attractive.

PART-5: Increase the charm by adding hands
Poses that use hands can further enhance the atmosphere and charm of the illustration. We will give a lecture on the basic structure of hands and how to draw them.

PART-6: Various facial expressions and gestures
Let's draw an original illustration of a girl that focuses on facial expressions and gestures. Decide on the theme/image? ?A Gather materials ? ?B Decide on the composition ? ?C Rough ?? line drawing
Chapter-1: ?gA girl who is worried and thinking?h
Chapter-2: ?gPretty older sister?h
Chapter- 3: ?gOkay! Girl who is happy?h
Chapter-4: ?gI?fm really sorry! Girl who apologizes?h
Chapter-5: ?gGirl who is in a hurry?h

PART-7 : How to draw a wink
I will explain how to draw a winking expression and the key points.

PART-8: Drawing an ennui expression
I will introduce the points when drawing an ennui expression.

PART-9: Making the cover
We will explain the flow of creating the cover illustration for this book and the specific steps for making the illustration.

Gallery at the end of the book

kakimaku (author)

Publisher: Hobby Japan (2024/9/10)
Release date: 2024/9/10
Language: Japanese
Large book: 160 pages
ISBN-10: 4798634387
ISBN-13: 978-4798634388
Dimensions: 25.7 x 19 x 1.15 cm

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9784798634388

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