03-13-2006, 04:45 PM
I've been reading The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression by Gary Faigin. It is an amazing text, deftly-written and well-illustrated, and there's nothing else out there like it. Highly recommended, especially if you want to get past drawing faces with blank expressions (check any art website for lots of examples).
Anyway, while reading this thread, I realized my face had been seized by an unrelenting cringe. Good god, people! I can only say I am so lucky. Still, I will play soon, and include a photo -- though I'm looking two other photos as well.
I checked the Facial Expression book to pin down what muscles I was using for my cringe. I expected to find a cringe muscle. Nope. It seems to involve all the muscles of the face, with emphasis on three of them: the levator labii superioris (the sneering muscle), orbicularis oculi (the squinting muscle) & the corrugator (the frowning muscle).
I'm going away now. For a while. My face needs a rest.
--cranefly
Anyway, while reading this thread, I realized my face had been seized by an unrelenting cringe. Good god, people! I can only say I am so lucky. Still, I will play soon, and include a photo -- though I'm looking two other photos as well.
I checked the Facial Expression book to pin down what muscles I was using for my cringe. I expected to find a cringe muscle. Nope. It seems to involve all the muscles of the face, with emphasis on three of them: the levator labii superioris (the sneering muscle), orbicularis oculi (the squinting muscle) & the corrugator (the frowning muscle).
I'm going away now. For a while. My face needs a rest.
--cranefly