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Marwan Green Critter  

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Representing facial expressions

Journal Entry: Fri May 16, 2008, 10:19 AM
  • Mood: Neutral
Correctly conveying emotions through facial expressions must have been one of the many most challenging feats an artist must face. Here is my thoughts about this particular issue. Human facial expression is quite complex. Just subtly changing even a single line on the face is enough to alter the entire emotion conveyed. An artist wishing to draw a character's face would need to study and practice how to properly convey every single emotions of that particularly given character. It can take some time to get it right.

Of course, the most expert artists have the ability to recreate every single nuisances of the human face. These are typically artists working professionally in a field where a high degree of realism is required, such as 3D movies, "serious" graphic novels, and so on.

Others, like me, would rather follow a "shortcut" -- This is often used a lot among toon artists and almost every manga cartoonists and in anime series imaginable. It is understandable that conveying a character's facial expression is not an easy task, therefore realism is often disregarded completely; the face is stretched to unrealistic proportions to convey an otherwise too-complex-to-be-drawn expression. The eyes are often the most stretched of all: they can expand or contract, morph into a dollar sign, pink hearts, or if that character is dizzy, spirals. Such usage are usually limited to more comedic situations. In more serious situations, it's still important to at least study correctly how to draw expressions more realistically.

A good way to practice drawing a character's various facial expression is to draw out a huge list of possible expressions for a given character, even the ones the character would least likely use. Generally, I rarely do this myself, but for cartoonists just starting to draw faces correctly, that's my advice to y'all.

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  • Current Age: 23
  • Current Residence: Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
  • Interests: Computers, music, drawing, movies
  • Favourite movie: Not specific
  • Favourite band or musician: Not specific
  • Favourite genre of music: Trance, Drum 'n' Bass, Classical, Piano music
  • Favourite artist: Whoever who can draw cute things...
  • Favourite poet or writer: Not specific
  • Favourite photographer: None
  • Favourite style or digital art: Mostly mixed; specifically those kinds known as "kemono" in Japan
  • Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium
  • MP3 player of choice: Winamp
  • Shell of choice: Default Windows Vista shell
  • Wallpaper of choice: Random, according to my personal taste
  • Skin of choice: Default
  • Favourite game: Not specific
  • Favourite gaming platform: PC
  • Favourite cartoon character: Not specific
  • Personal Quote: And then, I shall engulf the whole world with cuteness! Yay! Fear the cuteness!
  • Tools of the Trade: Pencils and papers, Flash 5, Photoshop 6.0, a mouse and a tablet

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~zanoma:iconzanoma: May 1, 2008, 4:43:38 PM
Thank you. :aww:

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~zanoma:iconzanoma: May 1, 2008, 10:09:01 AM
You're welcome! :XD:

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~kinno61:iconkinno61: Apr 30, 2008, 4:21:56 AM Mood: Love
oh your Marwan very cute~

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~cyclonDesigns:iconcyclonDesigns: Apr 29, 2008, 1:19:32 AM
wow ^^ its just amazing this little green creature xD
how do u do it ?
draw and than scan and coulor or what?
*Poke-Actor:iconPoke-Actor: Apr 25, 2008, 12:15:52 PM
Thanks for straightening out my language, and making me ponder about Brock's eyes further. But mostly for straightening my language (You making me think about Brock's eyes make me shudder).

Can't think of any cute words to say, Marwen, so..... Chaaaar~!

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*FaoFao:iconFaoFao: Feb 25, 2008, 6:43:22 PM
Hello my friend! I hope you remember me. This is :iconfaolanfarr: I had to get a new account. I am glad to be back and to see you again! :)

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~zanoma:iconzanoma: Feb 3, 2008, 3:56:22 AM
Yeah, sorry. :dead: Work n' stuff. I've becoming barely online here because of so much work I had to do, now that I'm currently doing industrial training in my university.

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*JonnyAMax:iconJonnyAMax: Feb 1, 2008, 3:38:44 PM
Heya dude long time no text :3

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~LEPAZO:iconLEPAZO: Jan 21, 2008, 9:51:24 PM Mood: Joy
o okay la 2 terus kembangkan perjalanan karekter anda
~zanoma:iconzanoma: Jan 21, 2008, 12:14:19 AM
Terima kasih. =) Karakter aku ni takleh diklasifikasi di dalam mana-mana spesis dalam dunia ni. Sebenarnya, aku taknak namakan apa spesis dia nih. :shakefist: Tapi kalau aku terpaksa jugak (pasal ramai sangat orang tanya soalan ni :dead:), maka spesis dia ialah "critter", spesis yang aku cipta sendiri.

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~LEPAZO:iconLEPAZO: Jan 20, 2008, 1:14:40 AM Mood: Joy
nice gallery what is the green creature?
~zanoma:iconzanoma: Jan 10, 2008, 6:09:24 PM
Yes, I am! :XD:

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~maguro-chan:iconmaguro-chan: Jan 9, 2008, 9:35:55 AM
wow you're Malaysian? cool ^^
*VirusC:iconVirusC: Dec 14, 2007, 4:34:56 PM
Well, I believe everyone's original design is piggy-backed off of something. Even the "normal" furries. No wait. Especially the furries. People see what they like and implement it into their own creation.
I will google it to see what your referring to, I am curious about it now. Seeing as how its a Namco game.

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~zanoma:iconzanoma: Dec 13, 2007, 5:33:33 PM
Klonoa is a popular video game character created by Namco. December 11th 2007 happens to be his 10th year anniversary, which I found out a few days before that day. Go search for Klonoa in Google or something. One of his most distinguishing features of his body is his huge pair of floppy ears, which puts a fan debate of what sort of animal he is, although it is commonly accepted that he's nothing more than a cat with very long ears. Obviously, he kinda influenced my fursona's design a lot, especially those pair of ears, though I designed his ears significantly different from Klonoa, for originality.

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*VirusC:iconVirusC: Dec 13, 2007, 9:23:29 AM
Ahh, okay. I think the ears and facial expression was my focus. There's that, and I have no clue who Klonoa is.

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~zanoma:iconzanoma: Dec 8, 2007, 9:54:48 AM
Haha, thanks! :XD: Well, it seems that my cuteness has been attracting quite a lot of people. ^^;

Speaking of Carbuncle, my fursona's -- that little green dude's -- design was indeed partially inspired from Carbuncle. =P However, he's actually more inspired from the likes of Gatomon, Klonoa, etc. which should be clear if you compare him with those characters.

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*VirusC:iconVirusC: Dec 8, 2007, 2:15:59 AM
Cute OVERLOAD!
I love you stuff, and your little green dude, who is cute, looks a lot like Carbuncle from Final Fantasy. I love him, BTW, so I wanna watch you as to not miss out on any of your up coming artwork!

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~zanoma:iconzanoma: Dec 2, 2007, 11:24:31 PM
LOL, don't worry, you sounded nothing like that ring-wielding you-know-who... :XD:

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~lynaithan:iconlynaithan: Dec 2, 2007, 1:31:18 AM
Wahoo I'll watch here too!^^

*Bah I just sounded like~shot~*
~Emilia-Dogfox:iconEmilia-Dogfox: Nov 27, 2007, 9:49:45 AM
There you go ^^

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~zanoma:iconzanoma: Nov 26, 2007, 9:56:00 AM
Thanks! =)

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~Emilia-Dogfox:iconEmilia-Dogfox: Nov 26, 2007, 5:59:10 AM Mood: Zest
You have very fantastic gallery :eyepopping:
I'l watch you ;)

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~yaminoarashi:iconyaminoarashi: Nov 2, 2007, 4:01:00 AM Mood: Joy
COOL gallery you got here my friend :#1:
by the way...killer avatar; it's funny :rofl: