WORKSHOP | Master Facial Expression in 5 Days
Building the facial muscles onto the skull using clay
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The week begins with Faigin giving an introduction to the structures that underlay facial expressions, and each student drawing their own face with the skull drawn in relation underneath. Following Faigin's demonstrations, students model in clay the key facial muscles which create the various expressions, placing the muscles one at a time on their plastic skull and then drawing the muscles in action on their own face, using mirrors to produce both front and side views.
By mid-week, Faigin teaches the six key categories of emotion and how to pose and draw them. Students follow suit, first on their own face, and then using the face of a specially-trained model. Faigin also introduces artists to cartoons, master paintings, and other artistic depictions of the face in action. By week's end, workshop students are well on their way to mastery of this fascinating and challenging subject, taking home their expression notebook and completed clay-model muscular skull for future reference. This workshop is suitable for analog, digital & forensic artists. |
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DAY 1 | Facial Expression Overview: Structure of the Skull | Finding the Skull under the Face | Depicting the Features at Rest
DAY 2 | Muscles of Expression: The Forehead | The Muscles of Expression | The Eyes DAY 3 | Muscles of Expression: The Mouth | Putting the Elements Together | The Six Emotion Categories DAY 4 | Drawing Emotional Expressions: Front & Profile Views | Creating your Expression Notebook | Using Self as Model | Intensity Controls - What They are, and How to Use Them DAY 5 | Putting It All Together: All-Day Posing Session with Professional Model | Final Critique | Summary |
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