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In this section we're gonna be learning a little bit more about facial expressions are going to be actually

looking at some photograph examples so we can kind of have an understanding of what makes a different

facial expressions.

So in this lecture we're going to be talking about the eye.

So first off I have a photograph here of an eye and it's just kind of in a neutral state.

So it's not really smiling or mad or angry or anything like that just kind of neutral.

And the thing that makes a neutral is kind of the eyebrow and the position of the IRS.

And so you'll see here let's go ahead and let's kind of draw a version of this one kind of stylized

it a little bit.

But first off I notice that there's kind of a curve

underneath right there.

And if we pay attention to where the IRS is it's just barely being covered by the island.

So we want to kind of capture that and our version.

So we kind of just get a slight curve like that the top curve seems to be a little bit more

that we'll go ahead and draw the IRS in so it's just barely covered by the top eyelid and then just

barely comes down and touches that bottom eyelid

and sketching in some eyelids

and then the eyebrow kind of extends like right about here to where the tier doctors

can as an arch out here

that go ahead and

kind of sketch in those eyebrows like that and the pupil

can also add a reflection there's kind of a reflection right here on the eyes.

So we want to kind of mimic that but since this is stylized it just turned it into a circle

so this might be kind of more of a real estate kind of comic book style.

I

would go ahead and add some eyelashes some to thicken up this eyelash line

I'll just add three simple eyelashes like that

maybe I'll add a fourth one so that looks kind of cool looking.

So keep that one as well.

Even add some eyelashes down here on the bottom.

That

all right cool.

So there's just kind of a generic I mean things that kind of make it up is the position of the IRS.

So if the IRS are showing the why did the above it it would look a little bit too surprised.

So to get that relaxed look we just kind of want the upper eyelid to kind of relax over that a little

bit.

And we want the eyebrow.

That's another important part of the expression is we don't want the eyebrows to be too arched anything

like that.

We don't want it to be angled downwards like this because then it'll look angry.

We don't want to be kind of angled up like that because you know look kind of sad.

Real quick we could just sketch out a few more versions of this.

Like maybe another styles just kind of give you an idea.

So see we're doing kind of a animation style that I kind of get something like that

take an eyelash up

to an actual eyelid on their

go ahead and drawn the IRS.

So we want the top of the IRS to be slightly covered by the upper Ireland

to give it an eyebrow.

It's just kind of give it a nice arch up there like we have above and just kind of simplify this just

because of the style so there's going to be kind of a swoop like that and a sweep like the

right cool.

So that's just kind of a neutral eye.

We're going to look at some other ones because don't want there's obviously much more to this than just

that neutral.

So here you can see we have a smiling eye.

Let's see if we can kind of pick up on what makes the eye look like it smiling First off it's being

squinted.

So we want to pay attention to the shape first of the lines in the shape.

Those are gonna be the most important things to have an understanding of as you can see it kind of just

kind of arcs like that.

So we can go ahead and kind of sketch out and I like that

you can see the eyelid also gets kind of scrunched in there

and the top of the IRS gets covered a lot by the top eyelid and the bottom eyelid.

So all of that gets pretty covered.

So we're just going to see the middle area of the IRS

and put a reflection in there and go ahead and eyelash in

and then ask for the eyebrow the eyebrow it stays kind of high above it doesn't kind of come down like

this.

You could do that if you wanted but that wouldn't give you kind of that smiling expression.

So I would kind of keep it up a little bit higher

and so this would be the eye of somebody that's smiling very big and very genuinely when somebody is

not actually smiling for reals like they're not actually feeling that emotion.

You'll see it in their eyes if their eyes don't squint up like this.

It's because you're not actually feeling that they're not smiling.

It's what people call a fake smile.

And so when we do do a smile a big smile that is if we can kind of squint their eyes up it's gonna make

it look like they're really into that emotion

depending on what style you're doing.

You can kind of choose how much sort of detail you want to add in there.

If you add too much detail it's going to look stylized or something like animation it's like right here

for example in this I don't want to start adding wrinkles and stuff like that underneath the eyes.

So like with this one for example you see that on our photo we have a bunch of wrinkles but if we were

to kind of draw it in here it kind of starts to get a little bit too detailed for the simplified style

we're going for.

And so we'll just kind of leave that out go and shape this in

right.

You could imagine if there was a smile there just makes her eye look like they're really smiling.

We could shade and underneath the eye a little bit to kind of give it a little bit more of that smile

look great.

Let's go ahead and look at another eye.

So right here we have an angry eye.

So I'm guessing that a lot of you're probably at some point want to draw anchor character so let's go

over this.

So where we're drawing the angry eye you can see that the brow just kind of basically hangs over the

eyebrow and the brow itself the brow is kind of that flabby skin that hangs down over the eye both of

those kind of push down the muscles all push downwards to hang over the eye and so that all kind of

covers up the eye wall kind of look at a few examples of how we can kind of exaggerate those and stuff.

OK.

So let me bring my brush size down so we're drawing that kind of eye

maybe kind of stylized that a little bit more so I kind of have a big a bigger rounder I like that that

we can go ahead and draw the eyebrow in the first one to kind of sketch in that angle like that

we can get kind of that brow hanging down over the eye so kind of just flattens out the top of the eyelid

a little bit

and then in this case when you have an angry eye the brow hangs down really far over the IRS.

So that's another key point of drawing an angry eye is you want a law of the iris to be covered

the pupil should basically be touching the top of the upper eyelid

add some eyelashes in their

right.

So there's kind of one version of an angry eye if you wanted to look even angry when it comes character

sign it's all about that exaggeration.

So if you're doing something a little bit more cartoony or anime style really almost any character design

style you can still do this even though it's very exaggerated but you can just kind of bring the eyebrow

down all the way over the eye.

So what I mean by this is you can just go ahead and you can sketch out an eye brow.

Let's start with the eyebrow

that

go ahead and bring it the size of that.

So it kind of matches the size of the rest of my eyes

and then you can just draw the iron like this

and see you see how it just basically comes.

Right over that I

do uncover the IRS

van

another thing is if you kind of darken underneath the eyelid the bottom eyelid like that it also kind

of makes him look a little bit more angry.

You know that hasn't really happened in her life.

It's just something that kind of shows up a lot in sort of anime animation style drawings of characters

is that when they're angry you kind of add a darker sort of look underneath their eye.

You can even kind of Adeline like that and you can see that the eyebrow also can get a little bit of

a scrunch right there.

If we wanted to kind of add that scrunch onto that eye as well I'll leave it out on that one but that

scrunch in the brow can also show up.

All right great.

Let's go ahead move onto the next day whoops.

Apparently I drew that on the wall along the wrong layer so go ahead and put that onto the right layer

with all the other eyes.

All right.

So for our next day we have a surprise die.

So if you remember we talking about the surprised I the surprise I is going to typically be showing

the white of the eyes and the eyebrows is gonna be very high and very arched.

So let's go and give this a shot.

So drone I like this

all right.

So you really accentuate that arch of the upper lid and the bottom it also gets very accentuated.

So that just means that we're kind of making it a little bit more curved than it would be if I was in

a neutral pose.

Then we can also accentuate and exaggerate the eyelids so we might see a little bit more eyelid

and then the eyebrow we can also go ahead and exaggerate that out.

So meaning that the eyebrow can be really really high

so even higher than it might be in reality.

All right.

And then when we add that Iverson again we want to show the white of the eye at the top of the IRA.

So right here in that area we want to make sure that there's some white space

an adder pupil the pupil always being the center of the IRS and their reflection

and some eyelashes

are great.

So there's a surprise.

So really the main thing with drawing is surprised.

I is you want to focus on the eyebrow and the white of the eye.

So if you can get the white of the eye above the IRS.

And you can really exaggerate the arch of the eyebrow and really raise it up higher than it should be.

That's really gonna make your character look like they're super surprised.

You can see that we could kind of redraw this again maybe more of a cartoon sort of version.

So even if I were to just kind of draw a cartoon just had a circle for an eye

if I were to draw their eye like this

then I added a really right high eyebrow like that.

You can see that makes them look very surprised or scared or nervous.

All of those kind of fall under this eye right here.

All right.

That brings us to the end of this lecture.

So what I want you to do is go ahead and draw these eyes along with me and then I want you to post them

to the Q and A section of the course so that we can see your work.

It's a great way to kind of track your progress and it's a great way to just kind of get some feedback

from people.

Thanks for watching this lecture and I'll see you in the next 1.