Facial Expression Exercises

Hi Saveremreve !

I sense well motion in he's facial expression, so I assume that you get closer to your current goal.

For the stiffness part to be more fluid : i would say that making a rough skeleton and ghost more your lines a bit would help. There is an exercice i personally like is to take an A4 paper, do a line at half of it horizontaly with a ruler and dot to each side of the topside of the paper and a continous wave as smoothly as possible at the botside. It's a ghosting exercise : start from the left dots, keep the tip of your pencil as close as possible to the paper without touching it, then with your arm and your eyes go from the left dot to the right to link them. You have the right to make only one line from each peer of dots ! Once you're done, try to blend news lines on the originals ones. For the down part, you have to ghost the wave you've done under itself to do another one, again and again with each waves interlocking without touching until you can't add more. Perfect for a warming exercise and it help building confidence in lines and fluidity.

I Hope you the best,

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Hey, Saveremreve, nicer work on your sense of motion and exaggeration in your facial expression drawing. Greater works on them, but I'm still not getting enough of the intensity and insanity of your expression. How would you like to please try doing some doodles with a ruler and circle templates, while you're "ghosting" with a stylus and tablet, thus warming yourself up?



The reason why is thus you can and will be able to draw more from your shoulders rather than your wrists.

I hope you all the best.