
Explore facial anatomy and the muscles behind expressions, learn to study and draw different expressions using photos to understand how expressions work.
This lecture presents the anatomy of the smile, detailing the key facial muscles around the mouth and nose, including the orbicularis oris and nasalis, and how they shape the expression.
Explore the anatomy of the surprise expression, showing how the mandible drops and frontal and orbicularis muscles relax or contract to open the eyes and mouth.
Explore the anatomy of the sad expression, focusing on the triangle at the mouth, the depressors that pull the lip corners down, and wrinkles that run perpendicular to muscle fibers.
Explore how the frontalis, corrugator, and orbicularis muscles shape anger, pulling skin into a frown and tense mouth, with the depressor guiding the expression.
Explore the anatomy of the kiss by analyzing the orbicularis oris and surrounding lip muscles, their directions, and how the triangle of muscles shapes a close-mouthed expression.
Explore the anatomy of the anger expression by tracing how depressors, orbicularis, and other facial muscles move to pull skin and shape the brows, eyes, nose, and mouth.
Learn to draw a portrait step by step by establishing key facial points and proportions, then use skull and muscle anatomy to map planes of light and shadow.
Explore the anatomy of the skull, the muscle, and the facial expression, with a step-by-step guide from beginning to end for rendering portraits.
If you are an art student, anime or you like to draw faces, this course can take your portraits to the next level.
Understanding the structures under the skin will allow you to create more realistic and accurate portraits.
In this course we will study how the muscles of the face interact with each other to create different facial expressions.
we will use professional models in 3d, so you can see the different expressions in several angles and we will make a tracing of the muscles on real portraits, we will see that muscles are active and passive in each exprsion