This is a tutorial on how to make different facial features for your characters.

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Start out with your face... I'm using Kyle.


Clear all Facial Features.

Using your pen and colour picker, clear the eyes, eyebrows, and mouth that your character may have. If your character has a nose, leave the nose.


Start Drawing.

Experiment a little bit, have fun with with this new face you have...

I made Kyle look a little creepy when playing around.


Actually be Professional.

So you'll want to look at the areas of the face where the details you put in usually are. I highlighted them in red. Try to stay on these lines unless if it is your goal to make the face look like creepy kyle up there or if you are using a different kind of chibi.


Example 1: Laughing

An example of using this method is creating laughing easy, which is just two lines for eyes, and a smiling mouth. This is one of the two main roundabout emotions when creating characters, this one is pure happiness, as it shows every part of the happiness spectrum of emotions.


Example 2: Fear

Another example is fear, showing terror in the eyes of a character. Making the irises smaller, playing with the mouth, the eyebrows, and putting in tears. This is the other main roundabout of emotions when creating characters, pure terror, which shows every part of the fear spectrum of emotions.


Don't make Mistakes.

DON'T DO THE FOLLOWING:

 

-Make the eyes pure white, cause it looks alienish and off.
-Change the eye colour of the character when playing with the eyes.
-Add a nose or eyebrows or eyelashes when you don't have any shown on the regular face.
-Use the wrong emotion at the wrong time, like happy at a funeral.
-Use neon colours unless if you are making a sci-fi game. It's too bright when compared to other parts of the character.
-Overlap the hair or face gear.
-Make emotions for every character, for you don't need emotions for 100 npcs who stand around in one spot all day. Maybe if like a city is on fire and you want to show panic on everyone's face then it's worth it.
-Pretty much what this stupid head Kyle is right now.


Be Creative.

Get creative when making character expressions, and don't just limit it to just facial features, every single thing you add to a character adds to emotion to the story. Example:

Use also body expression by moving arms and legs, and rotating the bodies around to show different positions and actions. BE CREATIVE! DON'T BE A KYLE HEAD SPRITE!

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