A study about the head proportions, facial proportions, and how they differentiate between sexes, going into the particulars of eyes, mouths, noses, ears, necks and hair.
CANON HEAD / FACE PROPORTIONS AND IT’S STYLIZATION
A recap of the shapes that conform the head, the canonical proportions of the facial features and how it gets stylized for the disney renaissance cartoon style.
Also differences between the male face, the female face and the children face with emphasis in neck proportions and jawline shapes.
Also little notes on the ears.
DRAWING THE CARTOON RENAISSANCE EYES
An analysis of the Male, female and children eyes, eye distance and eye ethnic features of the eyes along male and female eyebrows.
THE DELICATE PRINCE/PRINCESS NOSE
An comparison between the canonical nose, the stylized cartoon renaissance nose and how to capture nose shapes from reference.
THAT CARTOON SMILE
The difference between Male, Female and children mouths, along analysis of the cartoon renaissance smiles.
DRAWING THAT PRINCESS HAIR (AND/OR BEARD)
An analysis of the relationship between the hair and the cranium and how to capture and create stylized volumes of hair from reference.
Also avoiding the representation of too short facial hair (beard shadow) and the stylization of big facial hair (Moustache, beard, goatee, sideburns)
MAKING EVERYTHING WORK TOGETHER AND CAPTURING EMOTIONS
An analysis on how the different parts of the face influence each other when they move and how small details convey emotions, also how disproportionate placing / sizing of the feature affects the result.
CAPTURING IDENTITY FROM REFERENCE
What to take and stylize and what to ignore while capturing identity from reference, how the idealization of the client plays a role in facial features stylization; getting over that it’s not as real as you think it should be.
Emphasis on the ethnicity, jawline, nose shape, eyes shape, hair, beauty marks and distinctive accessories.
The possibility of making multiple successive thumbnail sketch studies to get the feeling of the face through muscular memory.