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[boarloved-art]

how do you draw different expressions with your style?

the concept of asking me for drawing advice is so funny i really just fuck around, but by god we'll try!

ive watched many a cartoon in my time so a lot of the initial development of it is just. looking at how different shows i like have captured certain vibes with their characters features and emulating whatever parts of those expressions Worked Best (i find steven universe was a big one for this ngl, steven universe has some crazy crazy good expressions), then you kinda build a mental library of stock expressions from that that u can swap around for more specific moods or characeters.

when im doing screenshot redraws this is even easier bc you have a reference you can trace from and think. ok so what part of this is giving me the impression the character is sad, happy, etc. then i just combine that with how cartoons exaggerate stuff and all is well in world. like if im doing my cql drawovers + lwj isnt giving me a whole lot in the actual screenshot but i know hes sad in the scene im drawing, then i can give him some sad eyebrows and be done with my day, because im trying to get the right feeling for the scene, not the screenshot pixel for pixel with no changes.

anyway long long longer explanations with my beautiful wngxn assistants below the cut

here are our beloved examples WY + LZ, our Expressive to Brick Wall emotional range!

a lot of expression drawing guides mention squashing or stretching the face shape itself (like when your mouth is hanging open, your face appears longer bc ur jaw is lower) but if im being quite honest i dont do that a lot in my style personally unless its for Really Pushed expressions or comedic effect? its worth looking into if u want more realistic or fluid expressions but i dont bother with it 90% of the time

if we're getting angry or sad, we wanna narrow the eyes Down as if the eyelid or eyebrows are coming down over the eye, if you do this a whole bunch and make them really angled like \/ then it looks angrier (See my darling xianxian) , if you don't move them a lot or theyre less angled it looks less intense overall (which is perfect for my darling zhanzhan!), and obviously if you do more of a /\ angle, then you can make them sad rather than angry.

mouth wise for angry or sad expressions im usually making the lips thinner, maybe the mouth a little wider overall (see: LZ's example) because the mouth is pressed in a hard line. or in the case of more of a disgusted vibe like WY's example, the lip comes out past the mouth a little more than usual to make a bit more of a curled lip/sneer impression.

and wrinkles ! love em! a wrinkle between the eyebrows makes them look furrowed + therefore more angry, sad, confused, etc. and u can push a bit more with wrinkles at the top of the nose (like when you scrunch your nose up!) + under the eyes, which is very helpful for making characters look Even Squintier or tired. i dont usually do it around the forehead or mouth unless im going for smth real pushed, just bc i personally think it ages them a bit too much, but when it works it works!

happy/lovey dovey ass expressions r my fave thing in the world and one hundred percent something ive stolen hardcore from cartoons and anime LAWLLL

in the case of more expressive characters like WY i tend to scrunch the eyes UP from the bottom, as if their cheek is coming up over the eye (rather than their eyelid or eyebrow coming down over it) like when u smile.

eyebrows wise i like to at the very least Slightly raise them or angle them Up. for characters that are being super sappy and lovey dovey if you make the eyebrows. look...kinda sad? like angled in a similar /\ way as you would if they were sad. but with the slight raise + the slightly smiley scrunched up eye, then it makes em look sooooo hearteyed <333

the joy of drawing simplistic ass eyes that r just a plain colour + a pupil is that taking away/adding that pupil, or changing its shape or colour immediately changes everything, if i add the white pupil they look way happier than if i dont include it, if i make it a black pupil (when the eye is coloured and not just a black blob) it looks a little bit like the smile is fake because their eyes arent 'lit up', and if i make it a heart then theyre even More hearteyed than previously stated, wow, joys.

mouth wise, the lil ovals at the ends of the mouth do a LAWT of heavy lifting, angle them up and uve got a smile even if the mouth otherwise is perfectly flat, angle them down and its a frown

shocked expressions.... my enemy... drawing eyes wider is such a pisstake to draw most of the time for some reason! just make the top of the eye more round instead of the flat thing ive got going on usually and it already looks more wide-eyed, even if i keep the iris exactly as i usually draw it. usually when i draw irises theyre sort of. more of a slanted rectangle than a circle, so when i make the shape more circular literally just by erasing part of the iris that meets the top of the eye, it looks wider and more shocked p much immediately. just make everything rounder.

lighting + colours + shading do SO much heavy lifting also, like if you add shadows around the eye area it looks much more ominous than without, a little shadow under the eyes and youve got some eyebags going, blush is obvious, eyeshines, etc etc

TLDR TLDR: scrunch eyes, move + angle eyebrows like youre making a mii, and play with the shape + thickness of pretty much everything, steal expressions from references until u got your go-to's ready to go, wrinkles forever.

[kanmom51]

Hi. Recently discovered your blog.I am having fun reading it.. You nice keep going 💜

I was just listening to Letter and thinking how fast we moved on from it.

The ending lines from the song literally broke my heart into pieces

🎶because we don't know what days await us,

though it's scary , though we're afraid Never forget that we are together🎶

the way these lines always makes me wanna cry . They are literally sharing with us that they are afraid of what comes ahead in future for them as a couple. The kind of society they are living in. We sometimes tend to forget the kind of fear Jimin and Jungkook must be living with. It must be so hard on them it breaks my heart.

But I know they both are strong and together they are stronger and i want them to know that we jikookers will be there to support them and we all together will be the strongest.

also Jimin wrote this song for Jungkook and no one can change my mind. When Jimin wrote this song Jungkook was on his mind, when Jimin released it as a hidden track Jungkook was on his mind and while Jimin was saying this is a fan song.. Mr.Jungkook was on his mind.

Letter for me stands right next to GCF at Tokyo.

Letter. Omg, I love that song. Can I just sit there and listen to it on repeat? Although not a very good idea, cause I just wouldn't stop crying.

Those lines at the end, JK joining in, confirming their together, so so beautiful and emotional, and definitely not for Army.

It's not only their own society they fear @youaremyparkfilter.

They know the fandom. They know the good, the bad and the extremely ugly of it. They know that coming out as queer individually will be a big issue for many fans, even more so for JK's stans (it is what it is).

But coming out as a queer couple, that will be a massive earthquake in the fandom. And again, nothing to do with how it will be accepted or rejected in Korea.

In Korea both JM and JK are loved, adored (yes there are haters, but there always are, you just cannot be loved by everyone). People that lifted them to where they are, Princes of Busan, the black and white couple, the sun and moon couple, people that see them as a representation of SK in the world and say it out loud, how loved they are, how proud they are of them.

In saying that, I think that a big lump of those don't actually see them as a queer couple, they just can't envision it, as queer is such an alien notion to them. Even with all their shenanigans. That's the whole glass closet and stretching boundaries within their reality as Kpop idols. Many people, in Korea and out, even if they acknowledge their closeness, do not or will not see beyond it into maybe, just maybe, them being a queer couple.

If they ever do 'come out', there will be those in Korea that do flip flop on them (and I'm not talking about the ones that throw hate at them already), although I personally think not as many as feared. They have been loved for such a long time, it will be harder to turn around and suddenly hate on them (although sometimes the line between love and hate is very thin). Not to mention how hard it will be for people, officials as well, to flip back on calling them the face of Korea, pride of Korea etc.

Make no mistake though, there will be a lot of hate (and it will be very loud, as we all know very well), and their families would receive a big chunk of it (easier/softer targets because of who and what JM and JK and BTS represent).

I think many would take pause, they would perhaps be initially shocked (some not so much, more like a eureka moment for them, like "oh, that explains everything..."), but at the end of the day the blow to their careers won't be the level of Holland's. Because of who they are, because of others that are paving the way (including Holland), because let's be honest here, they are artists and want to continue creating and performing and succeeding, but even if they take a hit their fandom is so friggin huge that whatever happens they will continue to succeed, and I do believe they will gain fans too because of that brave move, because of people realizing just how much their art is representative of themselves. Not to mention the level of impact it will have in Korea for recognition and acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community. In a society like Korea you have the very loud anti LGBTQ+ religious groups, you have those with the old fashioned backwards way of thinking, you have those that don't think or care either way (as long as it doesn't concern them) and you have those that are part of the LGBTQ+ community or support it and their fight for equal rights and protection by law. On that spectrum I believe you will find that a big piece of society can be swayed. And people like that who will see these two young men who they have grown to love come out as queer, they can have a change of mind, a moment of enlightenment/ realization that perhaps love is love is love. Maybe that's me being over optimistic, but I really don't think so. Because that's how change is made. That is how change was made in the West.

But, there will always be a price, and all of this is purely speculation (no way of me knowing just how bad it could get for them). It's their lives, their safety, their careers on the line and they are the ones that are living this reality and having to hide who they are and who they love at the moment, and will be living this conundrum on a daily basis.

So to sum it up, I believe there will be a hit but not a crushing one to their careers if they ever do decide to take that step. I'm not expecting it of them though. I know it will be a huge step forward for the LGBTQ+ community in SK if they do, but it's their lives, their careers, their loved ones, their decision.

It's a bloody scary thing to do, and it impacts not only them but also their families, their loved ones, their bandmates. This is a decision they will have to make together, and they will most likely make some sort of decision post MS. One way or another, I think things will change post MS. Contracts will change too. Just how much it will change, that is the million dollar question.

God, did I digress....

After saying all of that, I do want to back pedal a bit to your ask and to those specific lines in Letter.

I think they engulf not only the fear of being a queer couple in an unfriendly society, but also the upcoming uncertain future of military service, being apart for such a long time after being together for what seems like forever, not being able to be there for each other in this oh so scary new reality of military service that is looming over them. The uncertainty of this time to come and what lies ahead. All of that is engulfed into those lines of the song.

Anyway, the song is beautiful.

The song is a love song. And we aren't the recipients of said letter, said love song.

Letter is a song for JK disguised as a song for army.

Letter is addressed to JK, for army to hear.

[rebeccalouisaferguson]

on your last ask: seems like chalamet's done with his wes anderson film. he posted an insta-story a couple days back to the effect of 'done with wes world, onto denis world'

Oh, yes, i know! Following him on Instagram. The ask was a while back, I just reblogged it with an update on the actual filming date that we got today (because the ask was about it, but the news came today). I’m sorry if it was a bit confusing.

[askbadlydrawntexas-blog]

im sorry

[toughlv]

Wait, why do you need an eyepatch when you don't have eyes in the first place?

BECAUSE IT’S INCREDIBLY STYLISH, THAT’S WHY.

ISN’T THAT WHY MOST PEOPLE WEAR THEM!!!!

[acscenarios]

this isnt a request but i love that you headcanon connor as someone who loves some pudge on his s/o bc i recently gained weight and im feelin kinda meh about my tummy but those headcanons actually make me feel better about it so thank you ;;

As a larger woman myself it also gave me some confidence when I headcanoned Connor as someone that likes his ladies thick. I’m glad I took that headcanon and rolled with it!

[toughlv]

Wowie! You've made quite a name for yourself, haven't you?

CLEARLY NOT ENOUGH, I’VE ONLY GOT 15 FOLLOWERS ON WASTENET!!!!

I’M SURE THAT WILL CHANGE IN TIME. MY EXPLOITS ARE EXTREMELY WORTH KNOWING ABOUT!!!! THERE WAS A WORD I WAS GOING TO USE THERE BUT I CAN’T THINK OF IT RIGHT NOW.

REGARDLESS,

TODAY’S GOING TO BE A GREAT DAY. I CAN FEEL IT!!!!!