Comments | ratcreature: drawing book rec

ratcreature

drawing book rec

Mar 30, 2006 15:17

Getting facial expressions, especially more subtle ones right, drawing them so that they are immediately recognizable as exactly what you want is really hard. There's a couple of reasons for that, for example that we are very well trained to read facial expressions and the slightest changes will make an immediately recognizable difference, while at ( Read more... )

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enname March 30 2006, 13:38:38 UTC

I am *so* going to have to get me a copy of that book. Like this very instant and a second ago. I can draw serious expressions and things like the subtle difference between anger and sadness, but laughter and the more extreme ends of the emotional scale? These escape me completely. I didn't even need the scans of the book to convince me, just the first paragraph.

Neat!

ratcreature March 30 2006, 16:39:41 UTC

I glad to have been useful. I shied away from getting this even though it had been recced to me, because it is a bit on the expensive side with a price of $35, but I got it as a present (yay for amazon wishlists *g*), and it's really a sound guide to expression. In many drawing books expression is treated in a kind of haphazard way, like with just a couple of examples, and often not very good ones, and I decided to include the scans to show that this one isn't like that, but actually useful, even for more difficult expressions.

enname March 31 2006, 14:16:22 UTC

Having looked at a couple of other drawing books every now and then to see what is on offer, I am willing to shill out for something that may actually be of use to me. If I can sit there with a book and tell the author more about how to draw expression than what they tell me, then I am not going to buy it. Unfortunately that has been the general case. I've been flailing around a little in trying to develop my drawing of late and it is expression that is causing the problem.

There are family members who owe me birthday presents, they can now contribute to something I'll actually use.

gnatkip January 13 2007, 19:03:05 UTC

I love this sort of post you do. I've been meaning to friend you for a long time. I keep seeing you around, and you always strike me as so interesting and sane. ;) Hi.

ratcreature January 13 2007, 19:58:33 UTC

Welcome.

I'm glad you find these posts useful. And well, I think I'm sane. Um, most of the time anyway. :)