How to Draw Human Emotions in Cartoons

Video Transcript

"We've been cartooning and we finished an entire face, so now we're going to concentrate more on conveying emotion. By that, we're going to draw your basic face. As you can see, very indifferent. He has no emotion what so ever, but if I were to erase his mouth and draw a little happy smile, then you have your basic smiley face. Opposite end of the spectrum, pointed down, we can tell that this guy is sad. If we want to know that he's really truly sad, we'll add in the eyebrows. We'll have them overlap the eyes. You can tell by the scrounge in his eyes that he's very sad and he's got a little tear coming out. I don't like sad. Let's draw ourselves a mad character. Let's say he's got some gridded teeth that we drew earlier. Little black parts of the mouth there. What are we going to do to draw angry? Some big eyebrows pointing down. This guy is not happy. He's got a little stink coming out there. Holy cow, he's got steam shooting out of his head. We know that this guy is a very angry individual. There are of course many other emotions you can convey. The best best is look in a mirror and look what you're drawing. You can draw somebody a little more nervous. He's got his eyes really wide. He's got those pointed. He's kind of like oh man. What's going to happen to me? I'm pretty nervous there. Emotion. It's pretty strong."