![]() ![]() It’s a brilliant book on reading emotions from faces. “Unmasking the Face” book by Paul Ekman.Mirror! I looked at my face as I pulled different expressions to see where the eyes, mouth and eyebrows move.Kawaii faces practice sheet by Zainab Khan.But if you normally shop somewhere else, it's totally ok too. If you buy anything using my links, Amazon will pay me a small commission (no cost to you - thank you!). But this week I came to appreciate, that in a pen tightness = precision :).įull disclosure: I personally own and use all of these. When I first tried it a few weeks ago, I thought it felt too tight. I usually use the Artline pens to draw, but this week I found I needed more precision to draw the eyes and other small details. Just draw different eyes and mouths, combine them and see what works. Keep a visual diary of the cute faces you see around you.Where does the mouth point? Which way do the eyebrows move? That’s how I discovered many kawaii faces you see above. Use a mirror to see what a particular face looks.If you feel the character is smiling, make it open its mouth ten times wider. EXAGGERATE!! Really, exaggerate the emotion.They are also a powerful way to express emotions. Some of them will not make sense, but others will work great! This is good way to discover some unusual and wacky faces. Just get right into it with a pen, it’s impossible to mess it up! Fill the eggheads with kawaii faces from this post, or other faces you find.Īs you can see, it’s very simple.To make it even more fun, point the heads in different directions! Draw more eggheads until you feel there are enough. Then fill the line with a row of eggheads. And it’s a really fun way to draw with kids, or just doodle while waiting for a bus. I use this exercise (I mean game, game!!) as a drawing warm up. To make it fun, I created a little game for myself. I practiced A LOT of kawaii faces this week. Others came from a practice sheet created by Zainab Khan a.k.a PicCandle.ĬLICK HERE to Pin This Tutorial Kawaii Faces Game Some of the faces I made up or discovered by accident (more on that later). ![]() I put together 60 kawaii faces by combining kawaii eyes and mouths I practiced in Week 13. Here are the fruits of my labour for this week. I think, right now this is my favourite proportion. About half the mouth is above the eye baseline, and half the mouth is below. In the third example, the mouth is slightly below the eyes. The second example shows a mouth that starts at the baseline of the eyes, but extends well below the eyes.ģ. The baseline of the eyes and the mouth are on the same level.Ģ. The first example shows a classical kawaii face. There is a range of positions at which a face still looks kawaii. Also, babies have tiny jaws and chins.Ĭute baby face proportions: eyes, nose and mouth are close together, chin is small How To Position Features on Kawaii Faces The trick to drawing a face of a baby is to make the nose tiny, and to place the nose and mouth very close to the eyes. When I sketch his face, I tend to leave way too much space between the nose and the eyes, because I forget how close the features are on his little face. Our little son teaches me a lot about kawaii faces :D. Who are the cutest creatures on Earth? Babies!!!!! The reason kawaii promotions look cute is because they mimic the proportions of a child’s face. The mouth is aligned with the eyes, or sits just below the eyes. On a kawaii face, the eyes are still halfway down the face, but they are spread out much more. On a regular face, the eyes usually sit halfway down the face, and the mouth is halfway between the eyes and the chin. ![]() The image below shows a regular smiley face and a kawaii face. Let’s look at the anatomy of a kawaii face. But the real magic happens when these features are positioned in the right places. After all, it’s just circles and curvy lines ). The actual skill of drawing kawaii eyes and mouths is not difficult. When it comes to kawaii faces, it’s all about positioning. Use this link to track my drawing progress week by week. This is Week 14 of my personal challenge to learn how to draw kawaii in 6-month. I will share with you what I learned in this post. A slightest variation of line changes the expression completely.īut after drawing many many faces, I began to understand what makes a face look kawaii. I didn’t realise that drawing kawaii faces is more than simply combining different eyes and mouths. Amazing! I could have spent a month on this. Just a few simple lines, and you have a full face. Kawaii faces and expressions are fun to draw. ![]()
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