Well, since I can't think of anything interesting
to put in my journal at the moment, I figured I might
as well try out this new drawing tip/ tutorial idea.
I'm hoping to do one of these at least once a week,
so we'll see how that goes. I'll just pick out a
detail I personally find important to drawing and
elaborate on it a little bit, with a few doodles
to go along and make it fun. ^v^









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Okay! Lets start off with the eyes. Since they're
one of the first things we look at to get an idea
of what the characters feeling, it's only natural
that they will affect our whole perspective on the
rest of the picture. So if you want to give the emotion
of your whole drawing a good impression... start with
the eyes. ^v^

The pupils I think are one of the most important details,
so I'll focus on that for now.

I've noticed that the bigger the pupils are, the more calm,
relaxed, or sad the characters' emotion appears to be,
while a smaller pupil makes them seem more alert, nervous,
angry, surprised... you get the idea XD (Now this isn't
exactly how it in in real life, but hey, it's anime.
everything's exaggerated to make the emotions more intense C< ).
Somethin' like this:

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Next time you're tryin' to hit a certain emotion but the eyes aren't cooperating, try adjusting the size of the pupil. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't, but at least it'll give you a starting point. ^v^

Here are some random eyes with different sized pupils you can look over. At least I tried to make them different. CX lol Just for fun, do you think you can match up all the eyeballs with the right characters? You can be sure that they don't go beyond InuYasha & Yu-Gi-Oh. CX Definitely a big plate of cookies to the one who can! I even get them mixed up. XD One character is doubled, just as a hint. ^v^

^EDIT: I'll give you the answers in the next journal. Forgot to mention that. ^^'



Well, that's all for my first tip. Short & sweet, but I hope it was helpful! lemme know what you think. ^v^