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Another tutorial, this time on how to do some facial expressions 
*edit* It's been translated into Russian by a kind volunteer, you can check it out here: demiart.ru/forum/index.php?act…
I'm sort of under duress atm and didn't look it up... so if you have some helpful facial anatomy or other face expression tutorials you think I should link here, comment!
An amazing explanation of how faces and expressions work
fav.me/d37hme5
Here's one for facial expressions:
cedarseed.deviantart.com/art/E…
And a chart for helping draw various expressions:
napalmnacey.deviantart.com/art…
As usual if you have any questions feel free to ask!
My other tutorials:
Pose tutorial
Hand tutorial
Foot tutorial
Ladies tutorial
Fellas tutorial
Face tutorial
Commission Tutorial
Coloring Walkthrough
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Comments: 1747
When I do my expressions, i actually DO make them muself lol. i must look pretty stupid somtimes when my face is in my paper and im looking like a perv or way over happy during class!
great job, really helpful ^_~
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I love love love your tutorials, and I *really* love your chinchillas. XD
BUT THE TAPIR IS INEXCUSABLE.
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This seems really helpfull. Thanks for making and sharing it with us
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Best. Tutorial. Ever. I'm gonna love you like a stranger now!
I could list everything I love about that tutorial, but it would take a shitload of time. But wow, that was the most helpful tutorial EVER! Now I'm gonna go check out the rest of your gallery and love it. Kay!
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Thank you very much. I will be using this (and all your tutorials) often and readily, since I am the ultimate fail at expressions. D:
But yay for you and your worldly advice! :3
I also love your style.
Yaaay! You're the best. Now, TO PHOTOSHOP to become less fail at expressions! Whoo~
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Not the tapir! D:
But seriously though, I don't really do much in this style, but this tutorial still very interesting and entertaining.
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Thanks! I'm glad you liked it, even if its not in your area of expertise
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I LOLed, especially at "the face you make after reading Eragon." I never read the book (thankfully) but I saw the movie and it was UNSPEAKABLY BAD. Except for Jeremy Irons, who was a steaming pot of leg-hump-inducing sex.
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Ugh, unfortunately the book had no such secks T___T
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I think it's worth downloading an illegal copy of the movie just to watch the portions with Jeremy Irons in it. Despite how UNSPEAKABLY BAD that film was, I left quite worked up purely because of Jeremy Irons. >.>"
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Haha, I made the face after reading Eragon and Eldest! (don't ask me what possessed me to read the second one. Hope maybe?) 
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Awesome, that was the point XD And yeah, I admit I read a bit of Eldest (just to see if it got better) (it hadn't)
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lolzz poor chinchilas. Do you just have a huge stockpile of photos of yourself making different expressions? I should do that...
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I do, sort of, but it only helps when I'm drawing faces similar to my own. For other expressions I either have to extrapolate or just come up with whatever personally looks best to me X3
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ahh.. mucha practica. I see. Well, you're amazing.
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OH MY GOD you nearly killed me with the spider comment!!! *arachnophobic* I seriously jumped, gasped, and turned around...gehhhhhhhhh. O_O
Also, great turorial! I like your style, with the questions and all, to make people figure it out for themselves.
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the meow finger xD!
ty alot fot the tutorial
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i know uve probably heard this a million no no a trillon time but my go that bald guy looks like a old aang hahaha
anyways thats not the point nice tutorial *thumbs up*
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This tutorial is really helpful! 
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I ADORE you for making this. This is just what I needed to practice human espressions. thank you!
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No prob, thanks for reading XD
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Some of these reminded me of Aang from Avatar (I can't help it! They're all bald)
And another one made me think of one of my characters if he were bald
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You tutorials are always really helpful! I like how you asked questions and made you really think about how things worked and why. I won't be forgetting the Eragon face in a hurry
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Thanks so much for reading XD
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Very helpfull. By the way, your characters look like people off of the Avatar xD
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Yeah, especially with the bald heads
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lol thanks for making it ^^
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This is awesome, and you should feel awesome for this
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This is very helpful, thank you!
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Very explaining and fine-detailed on how expressions work
Although my style is known for it's fake simplicity (make you THINK it is simple but it is not) those are some very good advice for the new drawer...
it is applicable in every style, and helps pretty much EVERYONE...
and god, i love big eyes...
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Your tutorials are VERY useful and not boring
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Aw, I'm glad you liked them!
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Thank you thank you thank you. D: Your tutorials are very very helpful.
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Thanks for this! Your tutorials really get me think about how I would draw this certain thing and that certain thing and why it's like that. Interesting stuff!
(Plus I can't draw expressions for squat so I need all the help I can gather!)
Wonderful! xx
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Aw, I'm glad you liked it!
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Yay for helpful tutorialness~! And I really can't tell what that "Eragon" expression is... I can't figure out if it's a "I can't believe I read that!" or a "No! A cliffhanger!" ... XD
Oh... so that's where my pet tapir went... lol
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This is a really cool tutorial! I like the way you asked questions throughout, which kinda makes me read it a bit more carefully than I would one that just lays everything out step by step. Focusing on those differences between the faces (as well as angles of the face, I almost never see that covered in tutorials!) really helped point out, well, what made them different! XD;;
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Aw, thanks so much! Glad you liked it
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Coolness. Maybe now I'll be able to make my art look decent. Or at least acceptable.
Nicely done, Master.
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i just looked at all of your tutorials, and i only have to say three things:
1.i like how you asked questions 'cause when on a tutorial it says 'this does this and thats why it looks like this' that annoys the hell out of me, but when you ask questions like 'how' and 'why' you acctually think about it and that really helped me(of corse i am rather odd so other people may have difforent opinions about that...
2. having balance between text and art...you win
3.you know how to keep it interesting.... GOOD JOB
thankies for the great tutorials!!!
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Thanks so much! I'm so glad it worked for you, asking questions is how I personally teach myself art so I was hoping it would work on someone else too <3 Thanks for reading!
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Your tutorials help a LOT! Thanks!
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Fantastic tutorial!!
the faces look like those in Avatar, the last air bender..
or am i just having one of those hang overs?? >.<
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Haha, some people have told me that also but thats sort of my natural style. Also it doesn't help that they're all bald like Aang T__t
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