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Hey everyone. This is the tutorial that goes with the 25 Essential Expressions exercise sheet.

Now, I want it to be understood that I don't think this is the only way or even the best way to make unique characters. The beauty of comic art is that it's infinitely varied and approached from all different angles. I just wanted to share how I do it, and a couple of weaknesses I've noticed in the dominant styles and how I personally try to work around those. Remember that above all, you gotta play to your strengths. I remember agonizing over my style to a colleague once, and she said to me, "Yeah, but that's your style and it's great." So often in comic art guides I see instructions that basically tell you to drop everything that makes your art unique - don't do this! In the final figure in the tutorial, you'll see me try to do traditional western comic style, and then I do my own style. The first style is neater, but the second style, as bobbly and loose as it is, has a lot more emotion in it.

I'm rambling. Thank thank thank THANK you for all the wonderful feedback with 25 Essential Expressions! I'm touched beyond words. Feel free to share any good sketches you might make from this tutorial - I love to see if I've helped anyone out!

Lots of love and hugs,
Nancy.

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Great tips, thanks! :)

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thank you very much for sharing :)
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thanks for posting this, it really helps and it's lots of fun trying different ways of creating a character on paper.

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Great tutorial! Very helpful.
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Thank you for sharing this great info! Can't wait to practice my drawing.

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I humbly thank you for this. I really need to work more on expression in my work, so this is really a huge help. Thank you!!!

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this tutorial is amazing, there are a lot of things I thought of myself but I couldn´t express it in my thought, words or drawings n_n this clears up everything!

Thank you so much for taking the work and time to do the tut! :hug:

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I wish I could see this. is there another link to your "characters"?
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Wow, it looks like you really worked on this!

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Question about the faces:

How do you know what each shape symbolizes on a person's face?

Did you research shapes?

If so, is there a book or website?

I hope to use that 25 essential expressions sheet, but do I need to fill in every panel?

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