From Boring to Expressive: Improving Faces

I'm struggling with faces and facial expressions, so I practiced drawing them!
Since I did this practice, I'm enjoying drawing faces a lot more, even if it's still difficult!
Getting the eyes and mouth right, is the biggest obstacle, when trying to make the faces expressive, but at least now I know how to draw them better for different emotions.
Due to the nature of this video, I'm only drawing the head for this practice. Maybe I should draw shoulders or add the entire body next time as well.
While this is not exactly a how to, on drawing facial expressions and emotions, I still hope the video will be useful to you and you can get something out of it!
00:00 The Plan
00:55 Drawing without references or practice
01:23 Practicing with references
02:38 Drawing without references
06:14 Applying what I learnt
I also draw live on / xasha_ , if you're interested in seeing me draw live there, feel free to follow me there!
I'm sketching in csp / Clip Studio Paint !
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TOOLS:
Software: Clip Studio Paint PRO
Tablet: Wacom Intuos 5M
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[@Xasha]

I hope you enjoyed the video! If you're an artist, feel free to practice drawing expressions and emotions yourself, if you usually don't. It's good to come out of your comfort zone every now and then when it comes to art!

[@Susabii]

This is such a motivating video! So much to practice, so little time!

[@Xasha]

Thank you susa :D

[@impactframes6514]

It was really motivating to see someone else overcome the same struggles I’m having right now. Thank you so much for this!

[@Xasha]

Glad to hear you could relate to it frame! Keep going and you can do it! I'm still struggling with it a bit rn, but I keep trying to add some more expressive features every now and then :D

[@MinimaLaifu]

interesting to know what goes through an artist's mind doing sketches, thanks for the wonderful sketches and video

[@Xasha]

Oi it minimak! Thank you very much, glad to hear you liked it :D

[@thezharu]

I enjoyed this video a lot It made me feel motivated to practice today.
Do you think you can do something like this but instead head/expressions, with the body/anatomy? When you showed the final practices, I saw your anatomy is very sweet and I would like to see you sketching x3 you're really good at that!!! XOXO

[@Xasha]

Great to hear that zharu! And maybe I'll do that sometime, thank you for the suggestion!

[@Y_N_Princess]

This was great to watch ❤

[@Xasha]

I'm glad you enjoyed the video! :D

[@Arikiranix]

This video is very nice and motivating!

[@Xasha]

Thank you ari! I'm glad you enjoyed the video :D

[@kijin6447]

The video caption is so relatable I also have difficulty drawing face expressions 💀

[@Xasha]

Time to practice them as well then!

[@Linaosaur]

super cool channel :3

[@Xasha]

Glad you're enjoying it lin!

[@skyness_engine]

I also forgot about the chicks, good to remember

[@Xasha]

Oh what chicks sky?

[@skyness_engine]

@@Xasha those circle thingys

[@skyness_engine]

@@Xasha ooooh cheeks*

[@Xasha]

ah now it makes sense, thank you for clarifying :D

[@PirateDonk_]

Very expressing video

[@Xasha]

thank you pir 🥖 🥐