Description

Mastering facial expressions is key to making anime characters come alive with personality and emotion. In this course, you’ll dive deep into the anatomy of the face and learn how subtle changes to eyes, eyebrows, and mouths can dramatically change how your characters feel and react. Using detailed examples and practice exercises, you’ll explore how to portray a wide spectrum of emotions—from joy and surprise to anger and sadness—with the unique stylization anime demands. You’ll learn how to exaggerate expressions without losing believability and how to balance the iconic large anime eyes with nuanced emotional cues. By the end, you’ll be able to create characters whose expressions tell compelling stories, whether for manga, animation, or concept art. This course also covers how to maintain character consistency across multiple expressions and angles.

You'll learn how to:

• Draw the anatomy of anime-style eyes, mouths, and brows to express emotion
• Develop a library of facial expressions for different moods and reactions
• Balance exaggeration and realism to create impactful emotional visuals
• Animate facial expressions for manga panels or storyboard sequences
• Maintain character identity through consistent facial features