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[Anonymous No.3719877]

How do you draw anger?

[Anonymous No.3719889]

>>3719877
Draw eyebrows

[Anonymous No.3719996]

>>3719877

[Anonymous No.3720114]

>>3719877
With pencil and paper.

[Anonymous No.3720170]

>>3719877
First get angry

[Anonymous No.3720172]

>>3719877
furrowed brow, lips pulled back in a snarl, cheek balled up, brow lines, crinkled nose,

[Anonymous No.3720173]

>>3719877
I generally make angry faces when I draw angry people subconciously.
I’m told I look retarded when I draw.

[Anonymous No.3721014]

paint it instead, using fast, visceral marks

[Anonymous No.3721274]

>>3720173
Do you draw porn?

[Anonymous No.3721275]

>>3720172
how would you know? all you do is trace

[Anonymous No.3721299]

>>3719877

[Anonymous No.3721300]

>>3720172
This is the most humane face I've seen you paint, they usually aren't this smooth

[Anonymous No.3721370]

>>3720172
>>3721300
I don't get the sense of anger from her face tho. She looks more like a mix of confusion/irritation/fear and maybe even a hint of sadness. But no rage.

[Anonymous No.3722049]

>>3721275
nah uh
>>3721300
interesting. To me the face just isn't finished. No yelows or highlights.

[Anonymous No.3722051]

>>3721370
she seems pretty angery idk

[Anonymous No.3722071]

>>3721300
because it isn't filled with unnecesary shit

[Anonymous No.3722100]

>>3719877
If you're aiming for realism, go with the left. If you're aiming for cartoony, the right.

[Anonymous No.3722161]

>>3722051
Still not feeling it from that painting.
But eh, don't take my word as gospel, just my opinion, your free to do whatever.

[Anonymous No.3722187]

>>3722161
yeah there's still more shit that got get did at it. And I had debated about doing her at the height of the scream but ended up going with her after the scream where she's still snarling but calming down.

[Anonymous No.3722250]

>>3719877

[Anonymous No.3722266]

>>3721299
kek

[Anonymous No.3723999]

>>3719877
What kind of anger are you trying to convey? There's a difference between insulted, furious, cranky, irritated, suppressed rage, scorn, etc

In general, anger has furrowed eyebrows, plus intense-looking eyes (wide open, with smaller iris/pupil than usual and a lot of eye white visible is one way to achieve the "glare" look). The eyes could be squeezed or squinted too. Clenched teeth, or teeth bared in a snarl, are also a great sign of anger, along with shouting and tension in the body/face in general. Angry people can have wound-up or aggressive body language, may seem like they're barely holding themselves back from outright attacking somebody, and can lose self-control.

Different types of characters will express emotions differently, and there are also many degrees and variations of anger. Here's some more things to think about:

What type of emotion is anger? Think about how it feels when you're angry, like the physical sensation, how could you describe it without just saying "anger?" Is it jagged? Painful? burning? Cold?

How do you move when you're angry? Are you still, stiff, rigid, relaxed, or do you pace or fidget, do you throw something... what do you do, what do you say? How do the people you've known in your life look/act when they are angry? When a character in a movie gets angry, how can you tell? Keep that sort of thing in mind, and file these observations away in your head for reference.

Here's a chart that shows several of the most basic emotions at different intensities. Think about what makes anger look like anger, here. If they weren't labeled, how would you be able to tell which one was angry?
Also think about what makes anger look distinct from the other emotions.

And here's a link to a different chart that shows a ton of emotions and their iconic features, including anger, which you might find useful:
http://www.cedarseed.com/tuts/emotut.jpg

[Anonymous No.3725691]

>>3723999
This is great. Thank you anon.

[Anonymous No.3725701]

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[Anonymous No.3725709]

>>3725701
>>3725703
source?

[Anonymous No.3725710]

>>3723999
Any books you'd recommend for learning more about these stuff?

[Anonymous No.3725725]

[Anonymous No.3725733]

>>3723999
what book is that image from?

[Anonymous No.3725807]

>>3725709
top is Together untill death do as apart
the other one is Oroka na tenshi. Both has Great art

[Anonymous No.3725809]

>>3719877
stab your own drawing hand with a pencil and draw with it

[Anonymous No.3725811]

>>3719877

[Anonymous No.3727606]

>>3725710
>>3725733
Making Comics, by Scott McCloud.
The section on expressions goes into excellent detail on how to convey them, no matter the style. It also gets into body language as well, which goes hand in hand when conveying emotion.
Here's a pdf:
http://majikimaje.com/Drawing/COMICS/MCM.pdf

For something that digs into it from a more technical standpoint, another book:
http://majikimaje.com/Drawing/Body/GFE.pdf
For example, there's a picture in there where the girl is supposed to be leaning in for a kiss, but she looks slightly disgusted, and it points out the specific facial cues that make her look that way. That kind of technical.

It's also good to study emotions from the psychological angle. When drawing a character, you're doing, in a sense, what an actor does, so to best portray the character, you need to get into their mindset. If you can summon a piece of the feeling inside yourself, it makes it easier to capture.

Here's an index that briefly goes into emotions, their types, their indicators, the reasons people have those emotions, and so on:
http://changingminds.org/explanations/emotions/emotions.htm

And from the same site, another index that briefly catalogs different types of body language and what it conveys:
http://changingminds.org/techniques/body/body_language.htm

Also, you will want to be pulling information from your life. Books alone can only do so much, you need to add onto that information with something that really comes from yourself to get art with charisma. The more personal experience you can apply to your work, the better the results. Any personal experience you've got can be mined for reference material, even mundane ones.
To diversify your visual library, find some things you like for their expressions and analyze them, why do you like them? What about the expressions makes them call out to you more than others? And always be on the hunt for more.