Drawing Details on Cartoon Facial Expressions

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Now what I've shown you today so far is an introduction to cartoon expressions using a very very broad felt pen. There are other options once you're ready to kind of; you've mastered the felt pen, you want to move onto more detail; toss that guy away and use some of our more fine tip pens for our cartoon expressions which I'll demonstrate the difference now. Let's use this fine felt tip marker to show the difference here; doing the exact same thing except on a much smaller scale, not only a smaller scale a more detailed scale. I'm able to get in here draw my lines, they're more fine; a lot more detail involved here. I'm just drawing a same very similar expression, close to neutral that I did before but I'm able to really get in here and control my lines. Line controls the key thing; not even cartooning, if you feel you know your line control then you can zoom into this level and then when you come back out the drawing gets much more intricate. So what are the other advantages here? One is shading which I want to demonstrate right now; by using angle lines that are about 45 degree angles, put these on the side of the face over here coming down right about to the end of the chin. Now look what happens here; it looks as if there's a light source over here shinning light. Hey, let's put in a light source real quick shinning light onto our character and then leading some shading over here. These are the type of additional details that you can do with a fine marker; smaller drawings, more intricate drawings; increased expression. Now some artists go their whole lives and they almost always stick with the big felt pens, so don't feel you have to do this but it's all about your own inclinations; if you like to get more detailed, more intricate; want more complicated lines after your introduction today then this is definitely an area to explore, getting some of these pens. Otherwise you can stick to the felt pen or have something like this larger; wider, felt marker markings.

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