Any art tips for a fellow artist? Maybe some things on how your style works? I'm a big fan of it (your art style) and I love scrolling through it, even if I've already seen it a million times.
I’m by no means a teacher but I can give some tips! They’re mostly going to be about emotion and hair since I had another ask asking about those!
Different people have different facial features: larger/smaller jaw lines, narrow/large nose, how the eyes are slanted or how big they are. So an easy way to have to people look different from one another is to give them different facial structures!
It can give a lot of personality and diversity to a character design!
So for that one ask asking about hair, I have a system to drawing a hair style which is: hairline/bangs, any hair at the sides, the outer layer of hair, and then details like facial hair or texture lines.
Hair has weight to it, so when someone has straight hair, I draw it like its a drape, it bends to whatever it is laying on. For curly hair, I try to show a lot of volume with it, since it’s majority air.
For most tho, I try to keep it relatively simple, since I just think it looks nicer that way; less lines gives it a simpler, more cartoony look.
When doing an expression, every aspect of the face comes into play: eyebrows, mouth, teeth, wrinkles, the eyes, and even the pupils.
Just adding little details: dilated pupils, a wrinkle where the mouth curls up, emanata (fancy word for symbols that emanate outwards from characters to show their internal state), you can convey more emotion!
A combo of multiple of these things will allow you to covey a whole range of emotions in various degrees. The more exaggerated these features are, the easier it will be for your viewer to see exactly what your characters inner thoughts are.
Another thing I sometimes do is leave out a facial feature entirely, like the mouth or eyes.
I do this when I want to show an extreme emotion.
And that’s all the tips I have! Hope this helps and thanks for the ask!
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