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How to draw the faces of cartoon characters? After knowing the general structure of the face, let's talk about the specific face this time. I know that most of us start with the eyes, and the eyes are indeed the most important part of figure painting, but we should start with the more basic face shape.
In addition, I also hope that you can observe the facial features of different people, so as to help you get familiar with the facial structure.
First of all, let's look at two screenshots of the characters (tuxedo mask and Mizuno Ami) in "Beautiful Girl Warrior".
Their postures in the picture are the most common angles in animation works, front, side and 45-degree oblique angle.
These three angles, together with head-up, head-up and head-down, constitute the nine most important angles of a person's face. Standard face type: round face type: square face type: China face type: A face type: Shen face type: Yu face type: In sketch, the expression method of face type is as shown in the following two pictures: In fact, there are four parts that need special attention:
1, eyebrow bone
2, cheekbones
3. Occlusal muscle part
4, the bottom of the jaw
The treatment of these four parts determines the feeling of the whole face. The characteristics of men, women and children are obvious in these four parts.
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In comics, there are two most representative painting styles, European and Japanese, as shown below. European painting inherits the traditional painting techniques and attaches importance to the expression of facial bones and muscles. This style of painting is most prominent in European and American fantasy and Hong Kong comics. Japanese painting rules greatly simplify human facial bones and muscles, and only show the characteristics of the five senses. This style of painting is most prominent in early Japanese comics and girl comics. Nowadays, most mainstream cartoonists give consideration to both forms of expression, and do not particularly emphasize one aspect (of course, some cartoonists have created their own painting style). In order to facilitate everyone's study, I will only introduce the characteristics of mainstream painting style in the future.
The "male face" and "female face" of a male character (male and female here refer to the characteristic tendency of the face, which has nothing to do with the gender of the role);
1, the male face is very prominent on the brow bone and cheekbone, and the eye socket is deep, while the female face can hardly see the brow bone, cheekbone and eye socket.
2. In the occlusal muscle part, the male face has obvious edges and corners, which are generally obtuse or right-angled, depending on the face shape, while the female face has soft edges and corners, which are generally arc-shaped.
3. The mandibular floor of male face is usually flat, while the mandibular floor of female face is pointed.
In fact, middle-aged men or particularly strong young men will use the standard "male face". Generally, young men and handsome men tend to have a "female face" more or less, while most real female characters will adopt a strong style of painting with female characteristics.
Mr. Takehiko Inoue is a rather masculine painting style. Take the characters in Slam Dunk Master as an example:
Through the comparison of the above pictures, we can see that Akagi is a "male face", Liuchuan is quite a "female face", and KINOMOTO SAKURA is between the two types.
Miyagi can be seen from the side, Mitsui can be seen from the inclined plane, and Haruko's face is completely another style of painting.
Male faces in girls' cartoons
After the death of Nakakubo's substitute teacher in Bleaching, most male characters are angular (but the facial lines are more simplified), so you can compare them yourself. We only use the following picture to illustrate the difference between the faces of handsome guys and real girls:
In the contrast between Kuchiki Byakuya and Lucia with similar styles, Lucia's girl face is very obvious, and Kajiali in the picture below is even more obvious.
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Sichuan opera
Yuanyang face in the mask of Sichuan opera. But I don't know which play it is.
Yuanyang face is one of the faces of clowns. It divides the face into two halves with different colors and patterns on both sides, thus forming sharp contrast and strong contrast. This kind of mask is mostly used for characters such as ghosts and gods. For example, Zhao Wei in "The Peach Blossom" used this face: half of the face was painted in the shape of a monkey, and the other half had no pattern.
auris sinistra
Put a red ear hair on it, and a black ear hair comes down from the right ear lobe. In addition, the monkey queen in "Pineapple" also uses this facial makeup: the monkey-shaped pattern on the right face and Xiao Dan's face on the left face are quite distinctive. Another example is "Flying Cloud Sword"
Chencang
The old ghost is a man-eating demon. The hook method of Yuanyang's face is: draw a face on one side and a small face on the other. To show his ferocity and chaos. Origin: 45 facial expressions commonly used in Sichuan Opera
Web page link
There is no HD picture, but the front picture can only be found in Taobao (lower left corner).