During Winter Break I read the book Making Comics, a graphic novel-style comic tutorial book by Scott McCloud, author of the graphic novel series Zot!. Making Comics answers the Five W's of drawing comics not by explicitly teaching a certain style to draw, but rather focusing on concepts and details such as pace, perspective, dialogue, and most importantly facial and body expressions.
Here's one thing I learned. Did you know that there are six basic emotions? Joy, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust. Every other emotion is either a variation or a composition of these emotions, for example: joy and fear make desparation; anger and disgust make outrage; sadness and surprise make disappointment. What's important about this is that each one of these six emotions evoke different facial muscles, so to convey a convincing emotion I should learn what parts of the face are stressed and when.
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