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My apologies for the unoriginal title for this one and the previous one. Gotta make them easy to recognize, after all

So, after doing a body turn around, the next logical step for me was to work on the face. Of course, this isn't a face turnaround or even a facial construction sheet. If it were, there would be handy tips like "ears and mask are clear indicators of mood" and "eyelids are the same color as primary fur". Instead, what I did was just draw up various expressions that I'd written down on a sheet for Ben. The sketch work of this can be found in my scraps, but this is the finished up result, arranged to be a somewhat similar to the first reference page.

Not sure what else to say about this, except that I had fun working with B.H. in various states. Some of these are expressions that I've not ever drawn before or tried to properly depict, so the simple act of doing them was fun for me. Not sure if they all come across strongly, but that's perhaps one of my longest standing battles. Learning to draw expressions is something I've always wanted to get better at. I feel like the life of a character comes from their expressions. There are still aspects of 'lifelessness' that I find very difficult to avoid, but this at least feels like a step in the right direction.

There's only one more page of this 'model sheet' project for Ben to come, so don't panic if this is boring you In the meantime, as I said on the sketch of this image, feel free to guess what he's doing these reactions to! There aren't any right answers, though I'll admit that I did personally have a scene in mind for each one of these. The upper-middle one was especially fun, as I thought about B.H. walking into Rick's messy, horribly disorganized bedroom

character (c) MXR 2014

Description
My apologies for the unoriginal title for this one and the previous one. Gotta make them easy to recognize, after all

So, after doing a body turn around, the next logical step for me was to work on the face. Of course, this isn't a face turnaround or even a facial construction sheet. If it were, there would be handy tips like "ears and mask are clear indicators of mood" and "eyelids are the same color as primary fur". Instead, what I did was just draw up various expressions that I'd written down on a sheet for Ben. The sketch work of this can be found in my scraps, but this is the finished up result, arranged to be a somewhat similar to the first reference page.

Not sure what else to say about this, except that I had fun working with B.H. in various states. Some of these are expressions that I've not ever drawn before or tried to properly depict, so the simple act of doing them was fun for me. Not sure if they all come across strongly, but that's perhaps one of my longest standing battles. Learning to draw expressions is something I've always wanted to get better at. I feel like the life of a character comes from their expressions. There are still aspects of 'lifelessness' that I find very difficult to avoid, but this at least feels like a step in the right direction.

There's only one more page of this 'model sheet' project for Ben to come, so don't panic if this is boring you In the meantime, as I said on the sketch of this image, feel free to guess what he's doing these reactions to! There aren't any right answers, though I'll admit that I did personally have a scene in mind for each one of these. The upper-middle one was especially fun, as I thought about B.H. walking into Rick's messy, horribly disorganized bedroom

character (c) MXR 2014