Learning facial expression from the film “Tangle”

It’s first time I think Disney found back their character and story style.

There’re many funny facial expressions to be presented in the story. It’s exaggerated, but the reality feeling of character is still kept. It's interesting  to think about the connection between facial outline and facial features specifically. So, I followed the draft of tangle to draw the expression of character.

 

The 3 key points of drawing facial expression :

1.   Eyebrow – It controls the form of forehead and the skin between forehead and nose, eyes.

2.   Mouth -It controls the form chin, cheek and philtrum.

3.   Wrinkle shows people are strangely pushing some part of their face.

When the three parts are changed, the outline of face has to be changed even though the character just slightly moves one of them.

Why should we care about facial outline of character?

Because, it can make the character’s face more nature and dramatic, especially as the exaggerated expression is presented. When you understand and adapt to draw how the three parts change human’s facial expression, the nature and dramatic character will be under control.

The other thing needs to be careful.

If the character just follows the general concept to draw the exaggerated expression, the exaggerated expression could change the original design very much. So, keep drawing different facial expression to find out the perfect model of character in every emotion and situation before the character start to be applied.  

Tsung-Yu Yeh (Peter)