Ok so one eyed humans. I saw your post about em and I love it, incorporating it into my monoeye peoples. The thing is im struggling to figure out how facial expressions would work if a person only has one, very odd eye and no eyebrows. Any advice you can offer is greatly appreciated.
cyclops type expressions are definitely tricky! especially if you're doing what I suggested in my previous cyclops answer with the more vertical eye shape lol. closing the eye vertically on a humanoid face looks pretty weird. but! here's a few ideas for expressions:
give them a character design. it's easier to make expressions work if you have an individual personality to pull from. things like hair style and face shape will play a huge role here.
more focus on the mouth and nose area, because that's where most of the expression is really going to be visible.
shift which direction their eye is looking to help push each expression. maybe they tend to look sideways when they're sad, or up when they're happy. play around with that iris/pupil position to make the eye more expressive.
(image description: six simple sketches of cyclops characters with different hair styles and face shapes. Each one is making a different expression. in order from left to right, top and bottom rows, they are:
neutral. mischievous and/or flirty, laughing, sad and crying, angry, and finally shocked/surprised. end description)
