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Home > Directory of Drawing Lessons >How to Draw People > Draw Facial Expressions
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Drawing Emotions and Expressions of the Human Face

This is one of the best drawing tutorials out there for drawing facial expressions and emotions of a person's face...both from the side profile view and from the full frontal view.
How to Draw Cartoon Emotions & Facial Expressions Drawing Tutorials

You can change the expressions on your face without changing your emotions (by acting) but don’t you wish that drawing facial expressions was just as easy? Well, with practice, you will see that it is just this easy and a LOT of fun to try. Most facial expressions can be easily made by changing the size, shape, and relationship of eyes, nose, and mouth and other parts of the face such as eyelids and eyebrows. If you want to be a cartoonist, an illustrator, an artist or just simply good at drawing, it would be a good idea to start studying people’s faces.
Drawing Cartoon Facial Expressions and Emotions Cartooning Lesson

When a person’s face shows emotions, the eyes, eye brows, and mouth all move in specific ways. This movement is called facial expressions….learn how to draw theme with the cartoon facial expressions with the chart below. Practice drawing the facial expressions by looking at this chart as well as studying yourself in the mirror while making silly faces.
Drawing Kids Facial Expressions

How to draw the emotions on children's faces.
Getting Portraits Values : How to Put Expression in the Face

The ability to draw the human figure, while a great accomplishment, is, however, of little avail unless one also can give portrait values—expression and character—to his subjects. The following pages, while in the nature of the case they cannot be made exhaustive, yet will give the student valuable hints that, with constant practice and study, will enable him to gain facility in this direction.
Drawing Manga Expressions and Emotions

Facial expression makes an Anime character drawing alive. Always apply appropriate facial expression based on the mood of the character you are trying to depict. They eyes, brows and mouth are what makes a facial expression. Observe different faces below and see how the eyes, brows and mouth affect the overall appearance of the Manga / Anime face & head.
How to Draw Human Facial Expressions and Emotions the Easy Way

There are a huge variety of human emotions and facial expressions that you, as an aspiring artist, cartoonist, or comic artist needs to figure out how to draw. So, instead of going into the detail of a human’s face when studying facial expressions, here is an easy way to just learn about the way to draw expressions with simple straight lines. By drawing with the simple straight line it will be seen that it is possible to express almost every human emotion.
Drawing Cartoon Facial Expressions : How to Draw Eyes Expressions in Cartooning Part 1

How to draw cartoon characters’ Eyes and their expressions…an illustrated lesson for wanna-be cartoonists, kids and everyone else.
How to Learn How to Draw Facial Expressions by Looking in the Mirror

Beginners are apt to put superfluous lines into a face, and when the drawing is reduced these lines are brought closer together. The result is a botchy confusion of lines and the expression destroyed. Work up your faces with as few lines as possible, as the expression of the face has much to do with the success of a comic picture.
Drawing Facial Expressions and Emotions - acquaintance with the changes to which the human countenance is subject when affected by the various passions, cannot fail to prove a useful part of a caricaturist's equipment.
50 Facial Expressions and How to Draw Them
Here’s a guide to drawing a variety of different emotions, moods, and characters.
Draw Cartoon Faces & Expressions

Cartoon Faces... they can be any shape and size... there aren't many rules to drawing cartoon faces. Just draw them and giggle! Have fun with them!
Drawing Digital Comics Expressions Tutorial

After a March Break week hiatus, I’m back and ready to roll out two (2) drawing tutorials for you! For our first session on Tutorial Tuesday, I’m going to show you some basic Facial Expressions you can apply to your characters in your digital comics. Here we go!
Drawing Facial Expressions for Your Manga Characters

We are going to learn how to draw 4 basic and easy facial expressions for manga characters. So worry not. This practice is not difficult. It’s easy and fun!
Cartoon Face Expressions - Eyebrows

Now to change expressions. This is done mostly by changing 3 things: Eyebrows, Eyelids, and Mouths. First let's look at what happens when we change up the Eyebrows. Notice that the eyebrows are just a pair of simple line curved in different ways.

If you've always wanted to learn to draw manga, this is good as reference for character expressions.

Page One of the How to Draw Funny Manga Facial Expressions
Facial Expressions Computer Tool

I think this is a fantastic learning tool for drawing as well as sculpting. It shows you the effect of different facial expressions using an animated face; the changes that take place in the muscle and face shape due to a change of expression. A range of expressions has been provided. I hope this resource stays online.

Yep, this is a tutorial on how to do facial expressions. I love drawing faces and stuff, cuz I am an emotional person *bricked* Nah, just summin' I really enjoy doing, is all

Cartoon eyes and mouths made of very simple shapes. By combining these basic elements in various ways, you can create all kinds of very different expressions.
How to Draw Facial Expressions

One key to conveying your characters mood and personality is in the face. In this tutorial, you’ll find out the elements that convey emotion, and discover which cartoon ’shorthand’ drawing methods are used to convey them. I recommend you read through How to Draw Eyes before you continue, if you haven’t read it already.
How to Draw Different Facial Expressions on Sketches

Drawing different facial expressions on cartoon sketches

How to draw manga expressions step by step”. I still have three more tutorials that need to go up and every one of them is cool and helpful. Peace peeps and have fun drawing.
How to Draw Facial Expressions : Rules of Drawing Facial Emotions

The rules of drawing facial expressions are the same as for drawing the human form. The important thing to remember is that you must learn to see and represent areas of light and shadow rather than indicate facial expressions with line. Learning to draw is about learning to differentiate these areas of light and dark and reproducing them accurately. In a drawing, a smile, a laugh, a frown or a pout is made up of abstract shapes. To re-create these shapes well, make sure you have some good heavy drawing paper with a high rag content, as well as a set of quality drawing pencils.
Idiots Guide to Drawing Facial Expressions

This tutorial will guide beginners (just kidding about the idiots) through different things to consider when drawing facial expressions. I hope you learn from my tips here.
Learn How to Draw Anime Faces and Face Expressions

Learn how to draw anime face expressionsAfter you learned how to draw manga faces a couple of days ago, it’s now time for more tips about how to draw anime faces. In the next paragraphs you will learn how the various parts of the face work together to convey different emotions. Once you learn what features to change to achieve the look you want, you should be able to draw any anime face expression you want.
Learn How to Draw Facial Expressions Craft Lesson

It’s easy to show people when you’re mad and happy. Your face just does it for you. But you can also learn to draw a face that shows how that person feels by changing the size, shape and angle of the eyes, nose, mouth, and eyebrows. You can learn how to do this by drawing the different facial expressions in the pictures in our Learn to Draw facial expressions template.
Manga Drawing Tutorials : Emotional Expressions

These are various expressions from happy to mad. The little drawing on the side shows the basic layout of the face when its making the expression with the bigger drawing. Click on the image for a larger view.
Using Simple Faces to Learn How to Draw Facial Expressions!

One of the hardest things to do is draw facial expressions. In this lesson, we will learn simple facial drawings so you are able to build on the concepts of emotions.
















































































































































































































































































