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2-6	Different Ways to Draw Characters’ Expressions
Characters* Expressions by Type/ Head Simple Type B/Boy

I A girlish, delicate, quiet boy. Like the girl, he is introverted, uncommunicative and self-effacing. Draw him with a lonely expression on his face as if he is always worried about something. His delicate naturę is evident in the sharply pointed features such as the cheeks, chin, eyes and nose. Draw his neck thin like the girl's. Out of all the characters featured in this book, it is probably most difficult to distinguish between boy and girl in Simple Type B.

Drawing a wrinkle-like linę on the brow makes him look worried.

A conservative hairstyle.

These eyebrows are thick for this type of character.

Loneliness is expressed in the distance between the eyes.

The eyelid lines show the delicate skin of his eyelids.

„ Narrow irises. The outline of the eyes is angular.

The top and bottom of the eyes are not visible. The lines for the bottom of the eyes are not fully drawn. The irises are thin.

Drawing only the beginning and end of the nose indicates that the nose elevates sharply in between.

A rather down-turned, closed sad-looking mouth. Shading

lengthways makes the mouth protrude slightly as if he is about to say something.

Aslenderchin for a boy.

The cheeks are drawn with a thick linę to make them look sguare.

A very thin neck.

The bridge of the nose is as fiat as it can be.

In profile the nostrils are not drawn.

There is shading belowthe chin and underthe hair.

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