Specialization in Creative Writing and Children's Illustration

Overview

“The face is the first thing we notice about a character. It's where we look for clues about what they're thinking and feeling. In this lesson I'll show you how to draw the head in different positions and with different facial expressions. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: An emotional face, which is part of the Domestika online course: Specialization in Creative Writing and Children's Illustration . Write captivating children's books by exploring narrative techniques and age-appropriate language for young readers..

Partial transcription of the video

“The next thing I'm going to do is work on my character's face. First of all, I want to talk to you a little bit about a trick that you can use to create different facial expressions. Actually, what changes from the face would be the eyebrows and the mouth and a little bit of the eyes, depending on the realism that your drawing has. For example, I made this practice table here, in which you can see that most of the expressions come from the straight eyebrows, the eyebrows down, the eyebrows up, the mouth open like smiling, the mouth neutral, the mouth down like scared. Everything else are su...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Creative Writing and Children's Illustration

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (38)
• 4195 students
• 6 units
• 70 lessons (14h 37m)
• 38 downloads

• Category

  Illustration, Writing

• Areas

  Character Design, Children's Illustration, Children's Literature, Content Writing, Creative Writing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Picturebook, Writing