You don't sound like a broken rekord at all. I could watch and listnen to you talking about drawing expressions for hours and hours and hours. I really hope you don't start to feel your content is being repetitive, just because you have multiple videos with the same focus. IT IS NOT! It's amazing, inspring and very very helpful Please keep it up.
Man working 23 years as a Disney animator is the artistic equivalent of being a Navy Seal, best of the best man and a real treat to see these instructional videos by him.
I"m admittedly not the hugest Disney fan, but I spontaneously started to cry when I realized I drew Nala. Thank you for extending your character building lesson sale, I am really looking forward to learning more from you. _/\_
Mr. Blaise, you're lessons are so valuable. Thank you for your work and time put in to all you do. It's a great service to humanity. Thanks to the internet your information is reaching farther than you can imagine. The gods are pleased
Imagine if we had the internet we have today in the 90’s. I was a teenager hungry for information about all this stuff. Your work is incredible, I’m a big fan! Hugs from Brazil, Mr. Blaise!
I haven't watched you in a while and I spent 30 minutes looking trough my subscriptions to find you - that's how useful your stuff is. . And you posted something exactly about my problem right now. Thank you for the work you do!
Excellent video, learned a lot, thanks so much for making and sharing this great tutorial. I don't draw digital, just old school paper and pencil, but that makes no difference when it comes to using these tips 😉😄
I think you deserve a chance to make your own art-movie with your fun art skills. You did well with Beast in the past and I use to like the poses and character.
Thank you very much, Mr. Blaise. This approach to character expression combines the best of both worlds - effectiveness and simplicity. Which leads me to ask help for a problem I have been struggling with for years: Q: When drawing facial features on a character's head, how do animators accurately space these features when the head is turned or tilted? So many books and video tutorials show only a front, profile, or 3/4 view of the head, but they have no explanation of why the facial features should be placed there, and only there. Shouldn't there be a simple mathematical approach? What if I were to draw a head that wasn't in a front, profile, or 3/4 view? Where does the front facial plane start and end, and why? Where does the eye start and end on the front facial plane, and why? How do you know what angle to extend the nose, and why? I could go on and on. I would greatly appreciate your help on this, Mr. Blaise, or anyone else reading this who knows a effective and simplistic approach to placing facial features. I feel so lost :(
@O. B. Thank you for taking time to address my question. I understand that the head is a 3D structure and that facial features will "stay in place" when turned or tilted. I guess I was not clear in my question, but I struggle with foreshortening of the head and facial features.
@@resonanceth what I do is simplify the character head into something made of angled plains. As if it was carved from clay using only slashes of a ninja sword. This helps because it's easier to "pinch" bold lines together and move them in a consistent way than it is with fiddly round bits, with unclear dimensions at certain angles. Pinch is what I called foreshortening before I knew the word. When the form is solid and unchanging, perspective lines will "pinch" to a common point. No squishy baby skulls. Keep those common points at the front of your mind.
@@Scroteydada Thank you for sharing your approach. I can understand how drawing planes for the top, front, back, and sides of the head (basically creating a box) help to keep the perspective in-check.
@O. B. I have found during my studies that a protrusion of the face, like the nose, is not the only thing that foreshortens when the head is rotated. Spacing of the facial features and facial features themselves can shorten or widen depending on the degree of the rotation. For example, let us look at Andrew Loomis' "Drawing the Head and Hands" Plate 40: Constructing the Female Head. In the front view, the distance between the eyes measures at 1-inch. In the 3/4 view, the distance between the eyes measures at two thirds of an inch. Yet, the eye width measures at 1-inch for both front and 3/4 view (and shortens to a third of an inch in profile view). This is what I meant by "spacing of the facial features" and "foreshortening of the facial features", respectively.
This is very good, a nice and simple video about how to go about doing expressions. At least the way you do them, which can be a helpful guide to start with!
Amazing.....simply amazing...this is the first video of yours that I have ever watched. Very enjoyable and remarkable ! Thanks for sharing your amazing talents.
I slowed the video down so I would be able to follow along with you and you sound drunk :) Hee hee! You are a fantastic teacher thank you so much for this!
A group of friends and I tried to show the forest people these expressions... I'm the only survivor.
I narrowly escaped myself.
Which area did you get stuck in?
Me and my friends tried to show them to the forest people as well... I lost many of my comrades that day.
@@AaronBlaiseArt Thanks for making it out alive to share the story and the lessons!
"Ooh, Belle's looking pretty good tonight!" 😂
Me: *fumbles but draws along*
Him: now look here
Me: *eyes snap up to the screen so fast*
You don't sound like a broken rekord at all. I could watch and listnen to you talking about drawing expressions for hours and hours and hours. I really hope you don't start to feel your content is being repetitive, just because you have multiple videos with the same focus. IT IS NOT! It's amazing, inspring and very very helpful Please keep it up.
I was smiling all the way as I saw the tiniest changes make a huge difference. You're as amazing
Man working 23 years as a Disney animator is the artistic equivalent of being a Navy Seal, best of the best man and a real treat to see these instructional videos by him.
Not even just Disney animator, but lead animation director and director
He's a master of his craft, much respect
or the artistic equivalent of starting being Harry Potter and ending being Albus Dumbledore
I"m admittedly not the hugest Disney fan, but I spontaneously started to cry when I realized I drew Nala. Thank you for extending your character building lesson sale, I am really looking forward to learning more from you. _/\_
Greatest art teacher alive. You videos are like a blessing to all of us.
Changing the shape of the face/head to help express the emotion is a good point, thanks ill keep that in mind.
12:12 He's thinking "You gonna put some of that color over there on me bro, or nah?"
Mr. Blaise, you're lessons are so valuable. Thank you for your work and time put in to all you do. It's a great service to humanity. Thanks to the internet your information is reaching farther than you can imagine. The gods are pleased
12:38 This is genius, you're a Master, Aaron. Thanks for sharing this.
amazing! best example i can think of is the end of The Fox And The Hound when Fox slightly curves his mouth into a smile. so subtle yet so powerful!
Imagine if we had the internet we have today in the 90’s. I was a teenager hungry for information about all this stuff. Your work is incredible, I’m a big fan! Hugs from Brazil, Mr. Blaise!
Your beast given me goosebumps. Love your drawing style.
I actually needed this right about now, thanks!
I FELT SO HAPPY WATCHING THIS ! PURE MAGIC
I find myself back here every time I get stuck on expressions in my illustrations. Thank you so much for these tips 🙏🏾
I really love your art style, your creations are an inspiration to me
And this is why the animated lion king is better than the “live action” remake.
Live action one was good tho
Beyond the Zone kinda but definitely not near the level of greatness of the animated one.
@@pockyredpanda379 in terms of cgi it was good, but as an animated film it was horrible.
@@pockyredpanda379 haha no
The difference between sonic 1st movie and sonic 2nd movie and making mickey mouse a real mouse
I haven't watched you in a while and I spent 30 minutes looking trough my subscriptions to find you - that's how useful your stuff is.
. And you posted something exactly about my problem right now.
Thank you for the work you do!
Thanks Aaron, I've always struggled with expression.
Gracias por el video!, lo pondré en práctica
Even his smiley faces look professional 😸
Yea!!!! The master is back.
Your shirt reminds me of grandpa max (ben ten's uncle)
You made a part of my childhood flash before my eyes, the heck?
Wait a min..is he...really grandpa max
He actually looks like the character too😃
Nice shirt. You can easily make a dress out of it. There are tutorials on how to make dresses out of men's shirts.
I can’t unsee it now
This is what I call useful, thank you so much.
"Now he's like 'hey babe' " 🤣🤣
Thank you for this wonderful video!
Much appreciated! Thanks & cheers!
Thank you so much, I've been struggling with expressions for a long time!
I believe in doodling lots of facial features. Doodling improves drawing skills.
Really helped me improve my art.
When I watched Beauty and the Beast way back I was so captivated by the beast's design that I started drawing. Thank you.
You are the Walt Disney because your arts it’s so gorgeous and so adorable ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️✍🏼✍🏼✍🏼✍🏼
I love your work
I needed this all my art life thank you!5
Amazing content and explanation, we are very lucky. Thanks!!
Thank you so much for your great tips.
This helps to go along with what I'm doing on the Watts online school as I work on getting better.
Thank you! 🙇
Very useful ! Thank you!
Thank you so much!!!
you are awesome. Hi from Turkey!
Thank you so much for making this video
Excellent video, learned a lot, thanks so much for making and sharing this great tutorial. I don't draw digital, just old school paper and pencil, but that makes no difference when it comes to using these tips 😉😄
I think you deserve a chance to make your own art-movie with your fun art skills. You did well with Beast in the past and I use to like the poses and character.
This tutorial helped so much!!
I watched your older video on this a couple days ago and now you come out with this one! These are super helpful so thank you
It's so bizarrely good.
Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Amazing!!
Thank you very much, Mr. Blaise. This approach to character expression combines the best of both worlds - effectiveness and simplicity. Which leads me to ask help for a problem I have been struggling with for years:
Q: When drawing facial features on a character's head, how do animators accurately space these features when the head is turned or tilted?
So many books and video tutorials show only a front, profile, or 3/4 view of the head, but they have no explanation of why the facial features should be placed there, and only there. Shouldn't there be a simple mathematical approach? What if I were to draw a head that wasn't in a front, profile, or 3/4 view? Where does the front facial plane start and end, and why? Where does the eye start and end on the front facial plane, and why? How do you know what angle to extend the nose, and why? I could go on and on. I would greatly appreciate your help on this, Mr. Blaise, or anyone else reading this who knows a effective and simplistic approach to placing facial features. I feel so lost :(
@O. B. Thank you for taking time to address my question.
I understand that the head is a 3D structure and that facial features will "stay in place" when turned or tilted. I guess I was not clear in my question, but I struggle with foreshortening of the head and facial features.
@@resonanceth what I do is simplify the character head into something made of angled plains. As if it was carved from clay using only slashes of a ninja sword.
This helps because it's easier to "pinch" bold lines together and move them in a consistent way than it is with fiddly round bits, with unclear dimensions at certain angles. Pinch is what I called foreshortening before I knew the word. When the form is solid and unchanging, perspective lines will "pinch" to a common point. No squishy baby skulls. Keep those common points at the front of your mind.
@@Scroteydada Thank you for sharing your approach. I can understand how drawing planes for the top, front, back, and sides of the head (basically creating a box) help to keep the perspective in-check.
@O. B. I have found during my studies that a protrusion of the face, like the nose, is not the only thing that foreshortens when the head is rotated. Spacing of the facial features and facial features themselves can shorten or widen depending on the degree of the rotation. For example, let us look at Andrew Loomis' "Drawing the Head and Hands" Plate 40: Constructing the Female Head. In the front view, the distance between the eyes measures at 1-inch. In the 3/4 view, the distance between the eyes measures at two thirds of an inch. Yet, the eye width measures at 1-inch for both front and 3/4 view (and shortens to a third of an inch in profile view). This is what I meant by "spacing of the facial features" and "foreshortening of the facial features", respectively.
Thank you Sir!
Thank you soo much! So much wisdom in such little time ) This video is indeed keeping it simple and subtle without loosing an ounce of knowledge.
OMG I cant thank you enough!!
awesome... thank you aaron
You've really inspired me as a 10 year old artist already thank you!
Your videos are so useful !! Thanks
This is the best video on expressions I’ve seen. What’s your hourly mentorship rate?! Haha this literally gold, going to try I out immediately!
This is perfect for me right now!
You're a legend
Thank you a lot 💜💜
Thank you Sir
You're a wealth of information.
This is very good, a nice and simple video about how to go about doing expressions. At least the way you do them, which can be a helpful guide to start with!
Wow! Would you ever do more facial expression tutorials with animal and human faces?? The animal ones always confused me haha
Amazing.....simply amazing...this is the first video of yours that I have ever watched. Very enjoyable and remarkable ! Thanks for sharing your amazing talents.
also sometimes when you zoom out subtle expressions show completely different emotions
Thank you so much for this video!
Looking forward to your next one!
love that , thanks
I really learn a lot from you and for that I want to thank you 😌🌼
Thank you!!
thanks for this video
whoa! fun!!
this is SO helpful! :) thanks for sharing
Thanks again Aaron! for such a great video! 👏👏
That krich krich sound when drawing 😂❤
thanks man it helped a lot :)
More tutorials pleaseeeee
Thanks for your amazing tips Aaron. I usually struggle with drawing expressions but your method makes it really simple and effective. ^_^
15:35 get caught up in design over char expression
Wow That's good ! Thank you sensei ! :)
Thank you so much for your tips!! We love youu
Art grandpa!
The Lion King is so good at getting emotions down that animals (whom learnt to read human expressions) react to it.
Tell that to the live action...
@@lilacfantasy4 maybe the real life lions might react to the live action!
Thank you
My tribe of the forest was not pleased, but the lesson was great, that's why we let you live.
Thank you! This was a big help! 😊 I found that I had been overthinking it.
Could you draw in one of your video child Denahi and teen Sitka please?
Nice
May I ask which brushes you use? Your work is amazing!
Simple expression is easy. How do I know what adjustments to make so the desired look appears on their face?
4:48 this already looks better than anything i could ever draw
I can resume this with only one word S I M P L E
nice video :D
I saw the thumbnail and immediatly thought "Blaise."
This tutorial is very useful, especially when you try drawing your own expressions by looking at yourself in a mirror.
1:34 proceeds to tell us that you don't need to adjust little by little to get the perfect expression
13:36 Look how subtle these changes are!
I slowed the video down so I would be able to follow along with you and you sound drunk :) Hee hee! You are a fantastic teacher thank you so much for this!
You are my master
13:33 "How *you* doin'?"
Hi,Mr.Blaise you have any tips for how to use camera moviments in animation for emotional scenes??
And I thank you for this video, help me so much!