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In this lecture we're gonna be talking about the expression in the mouth.

So after the eyes the mouth is the next main thing that shows expression in the face and then everything

around that the cheeks the nose even the ears.

It just kind of move in accordance with what the mouth and the eyes are doing.

But the eyes and the mouth are really where all of the expression are gonna come from.

So let's go ahead and start.

So right here we have kind of a neutral mouth.

And what we're looking for is we're looking to break down these expressions into a kind of they're simple

shapes and gestures so you can kind of see that if the lips for example had a gesture.

It's almost just like a straight line.

You can think of the crease between the mouth as the gesture so the gesture.

And so when we can break down that gesture it really helps us kind of capture what that facial expression

is so we can simplify it and turn it into the style of our character design.

So once we have that gesture down then we can go ahead and we can kind of break it down into its simple

shapes so if we did this into its most simple shape we would get rid of that field trauma we're just

going to be a triangle like that and maybe maybe just kind of a curved shape like that on the bottom

right.

So if we were to kind of sketch this out we're just gonna get a straight line like that and a line like

that going down here like that.

Right and that's kind of our simple shape that's kind of what every single neutral mouth you draw should

kind of be based off of.

Now this is a three quarters you use obviously a change a little bit but in kind of draw those lines

we understand the form and what direction everything's moving in.

And then from there that's the center of the mouth.

So we could depend on your style you could add in a fill term if you wanted to you could sterilize and

just keep it at that point there

maybe we could open the mouth a little bit

and then right here in the corners you're gonna get these little creases that go out into the skin part.

And so if you can kind of angle those upwards that kind of makes them look like they're smiling a little

bit or smirking you can see that that mouth right there looks a little bit more smiley.

If I were a race those and point downwards

and makes them look either super neutral or almost sad.

So I typically unless I'm trying to draw a character that's supposed to look a little bit sad I like

to kind of angle those and tick those upwards.

Right.

So if we were to draw another pair of neutral lips and say something a little bit more stylized and

actually we can go ahead and shade this in a little bit.

So the upper lip is gonna be darker

loses a little bit too dark

right.

Something like that.

So if we were to draw a little bit more of a stylized lip we could kind of

draw it in like that

right.

Tonight's big lips

you can see that this liner here is so the gesture is generally straight even though it's slightly curved

having the gesture be straight doesn't mean that this line here has to be completely straight.

It can be have some curve to it because the lips have some curve to it but in general it's just kind

of a straight line across and that kind of creates that neutral looking sort of lip you should shade

this one as well.

OK.

So there's just kind of a neutral sort of lips that are a little bit more stylized maybe more in the

animation style

so let's have a look at a another type of mouth.

It's good ahead and turn this one on so you can see here we have a smile.

Go ahead and enlarge this so you can see it a little bit better

maybe I'll rotate that so it's a little bit more of a straight horizon.

All right.

So if we break this down into its gesture you can kind of think of it when the mouth is open as to gesture.

See at the top line like that the top line like that which is just slightly curved just the slightest

bit.

When you draw the smile the upper lip needs to be slightly curved and the bottom lip needs have a big

curve.

All right.

So let's go ahead and let's draw this for drawn a smile just basically slightly curved line like that

for the mouth and then a very curved line depending on how big you want them out to be open to the bottom

lip.

All right.

So there's kind of the opening of our mouth and we can kind of sketch in the bottom lip like this.

And you can choose how thick you want it to be depending on your character design.

I mean go ahead.

And when the smile happens what happens is the corners of the mouth they pull out all the muscles in

the face and the cheek they pull out this cheek right here kind of scrunchies up and that's what makes

your eyes kind of squint.

And so when that pulls out it kind of stretches out the shape of the lips.

And so the lips kind of thinned out.

So what you get is you kind of get the the fill trim part of the lips in the center here they kind of

get stretched out like that.

So they might not be as peaked or pronounced as they might be usually kind of angled those outside edges

of the mouth out like that.

And then for the teeth we can go ahead and just keep it simple.

Typically when we draw characters their teeth we want to keep them simple We don't wanna draw every

individual line in between.

That actually doesn't look that good.

So we're just gonna kind of keep it one big shape like this

unless you want to.

You could have a big line right there.

Your character has a big space trim their front teeth.

All right.

These teeth might be a little bit too big.

What you could do to kind of remedy that is you could add a line or there in the middle just kind of

represent between the top and the bottom teeth.

And then what you would want to do is you would want to kind of shape those bottom teeth and a little

bit.

You could shave him in a little bit more on the outside edges.

Same with these teeth out towards the corners of the mouth.

The teeth might be a little bit darker like that.

I mean go ahead and shade in this upper lip

right.

So there's kind of a smiling mouth.

So just remember the gesture is kind of the bottom lip is very curved and the top lip is just slightly

curved it's almost straight.

All right.

So there's a smiling mouth.

Let's go ahead.

Let's have a look at a another image.

So next going to do this mouth.

So kind of a screaming mouth right.

So what the screaming mouth what we get is we want to look at that shape.

We kind of lose the gesture.

I mean we kind of get the curved lying down there.

But what we're really looking at is kind of that mouth opening right.

So kind of makes like a curved shape like that and then just a slightly curved line like that that kind

of angles down and then another one there.

Right.

So if we were to kind of break that down or kind of look something like this

this might be somebody that's screaming.

It could also be something that surprised you know their mouth just dropped open

and we can sketch on the top lip

bottom.

And then for the teeth for simplifying this we can kind of just sketch to the teeth in like this.

So the bottom teeth as the jaw opens you'll kind of get more of a down view of those teeth something

like that for the top teeth you'll still kind of get the shape right here

and then you'll probably also see the tongue as well so you can kind of sketch in that tone the tongue

kind of pulls back a little bit

should be something like a shape like that.

Let's go ahead and let's shade this in so you can kind of define it a little bit better.

So start by really darkening the inside of the mouth we basically want the inside of the mouth to be

almost completely black

and make it kind of slowly shade that under the tongue but it kind of fade

All right something like that

could shading these edges of the teeth and the back teeth in the mouth

then go in shading the lips.

There you go.

There's kind of either a surprise mouth or kind of a screaming mouth.

Either one.

Now let's see one more.

So this one is going to be actually kind of more of a screaming mouth

so let's go ahead and kind of break down the shapes picture pictures a little bit blurry.

But as I start to draw this you'll kind of be able to understand it a little bit more.

You're going get a curved line like that and appear with this type of a screaming mouth or yelling mouth

we get kind of more of an angle.

So it's only surprise it's kind of more of an odd shape and it can kind of open up a little bit bigger.

But when somebody is really yelling and opening their mouth wide especially when you're looking at it

from this three quarters of you what you get is you kind of get

these angles on the upper lips and then you can kind of keep it nice and curved on the bottom like that.

But the upper lip is going to have that nice big angle.

So we want to make sure that we capture that in this case it's kind of do something in the style of

let's say like kind of a comic book character.

So what we can do is we can kind of actually sketch in a little bit more of each individual tooth.

So that will kind of represent the teeth for now.

Same with down here we'll go and sketch in kind of where those teeth are going to be

something like that that we can start to sketch out the lips.

So make this kind of male lips and so

just kind of keep it very simple.

So don't actually do anything for the upper lip so I don't like drawing a Phil trim or anything like

that.

And for the bottom line so just kind of sketch in kind of a slight sort of bottom lip like that that

can kind of just go into the chin

I mean go ahead and sketch in a tongue in there like that.

Another thing is that when somebody is yelling their nose kind of flares up a little bit or when they're

angry so you can kind of show a little bit more of those nostril holes and make them a little bit more

intense right.

All right.

So let's go ahead and drawn every individual tooth so that the nose right there would come down in the

middle of the front teeth is gonna be right about there so I first like to go through it kind of just

break up where the teeth will be like that and we'll come back and reshape them here in a minute.

There's the middle of my two bottom front teeth.

Great.

And then from there you can really start kind of shaping those teeth out so the front teeth just want

to add a little bit of roundness to the bottom of them.

Then when we get to the canine really angle that out

like that and then.

So for these front teeth and a little bit of a slight curve on the top of them.

Then when we get to the canine and draw like them.

And then on these teeth back here you start to kind of see them a little bit more like three dimensional

shape.

So we want to kind of draw them as so

great.

So let's go ahead and actually we also want to get the gum so up here it's important that you also draw

on the gums.

If you're gonna draw on each individual tooth that's an important aspect of it is actually drawing what

the gums look like.

Now when you're drawing somebody yelling You're gonna see a lot more of their gums as their lips begin

to pull up.

And so you can basically draw the gums almost right up to the peak

you know add the little cavities and each one of these.

Well they're not real cavities and you call them but kind of that little flat surface some type of tooth

kind of angle that a little bit more and more like that.

All right great.

And then you can go ahead and shoot it and that's basically it.

So darken in those gums do the same on the bottom

court.

So there is kind of a yelling screaming mouth where we draw each individual tooth.

This would be for something more like a comic book style or something more realistic.

If you're drawing something like Disney animation style you want to drive or individual to it that's

not going to look very good.

If you do I would suggest that you at least kind of leave out the lines in between so you can see how

you can still see kind of the individual teeth wops when you race those lines out but it still keeps

it nice and simple so it's really up to you.

It's just kind of a style choice but yeah.

So that brings us to the end of our lecture on how to draw Miles.

You have any questions make sure you post them to the Q and A session of the course and I will see you

in the next lecture.