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The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression
by
Gary Faigin
Artists love this book, the definitive guide to capturing facial expressions. In a carefully organized, easy-to-use format, author Gary Faigin shows readers the expressions created by individual facial muscles, then draws them together in a section devoted to the six basic human emotions: sadness, anger, joy, fear, disgust, and surprise. Each emotion is shown in steadily i...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
August 19th 2008
by Watson-Guptill
(first published October 1st 1990)
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I've seen this book recommended for two very different purposes, the intended one as art instruction, another as an aid in helping those with Asperger's or high-functioning autism learn more about facial expressions.
It's a wonderful art instruction, in that it covers the anatomy of the face as well as the full range of facial expression. I'm not a serious portraitist, but I find that even my casual drawings of faces have tended to lack something in the past, something I wasn't coming to grips wi...more
It's a wonderful art instruction, in that it covers the anatomy of the face as well as the full range of facial expression. I'm not a serious portraitist, but I find that even my casual drawings of faces have tended to lack something in the past, something I wasn't coming to grips wi...more
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This book should be a compulsory book for all artists, all those that draw faces anyway.
It's a in-depth instructional art book on facial expressions. The three main sections are on head structure, facial muscles and the six basic human emotions: sadness, anger, joy, fear, disgust and surprise. Every little nuance or muscle twitch on the face is analysed and explained. Other than the drawings created by the author Gary Faigin himself, there are also tons of examp...more
It's a very cool book with a great systematic approach as a reference for expressions. My only quibble with it is that the green overlaid color is on some pages slightly out of alignment in my copy. It's only a few millimeters but that kind of printing fault shouldn't happen in an art book. It's nowhere bad enough to impede usefulness or legibility, though.
I bought the book because I like to draw people and wanted to improve myself and this book helped actually a lot. It's built up very well and shows very clearly how people perceive various facial expressions and when they seem kind of off to us. This book shows things like false smiles which is really not that easy to describe and even harder to draw.
I think everyone who wants to illustrate the inner thoughts of the persons he's drawing should have a look at this book.
I think everyone who wants to illustrate the inner thoughts of the persons he's drawing should have a look at this book.
Even though I'll likely never be able to duplicate the level of art demonstrated in the book, I enjoyed it nonetheless even just as a tool to practice emotional recognition. It also teaches about WHY the face looks the way it does during emotion, including musculature reactions.
Feb 29, 2008
James
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Artists and students of nonverbal communication
This is a great reference for anyone portraying the human face in any medium. It is both practical and thoughtful; it draws examples and illustrations from all cultures and historical periods, and shows in great detail, feature by feature, how the face reflects each of the primary emotions, down to the underlying musculature that causes our expressions to be what they are. I used this when making some mask-type sculptures and found it helped me achieve much more powerful, authentic, and effectiv...more
An excellent book for learning how to draw facial expressions. It clearly illustrates and explains the details necessary to convincingly pull off the expressions.
An absolutely superb artistic reference. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to convey any kind of expression in any visual medium.
One of the two best artistic anatomy books I've ever seen. Filled with information that will, no joke, change your life.
A must have for anyone doing human based computer graphics
This book i indispensable to me as an artist. I cannot praise it enough. It is a detailed book with many drawings that I found very educational the first time I read it and the perfect reference each time I have read it or referred to it since. There have been many times I have turned to this book to work out sketches and character designs.
Dec 27, 2007
Nina
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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Recommends it for:
Character TDs
This book has a fabulous array of facial expressions. As a rigging artist, it's very helpful to see how the face moves, wrinkles, stretches when making specific expressions. Very useful resource for facial rigging.
May 20, 2013
Christian
marked it as to-read
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