Thank you for your kind comment! And you are right! It was suspicion. But every time I tried it, it was a slightly different version of suspicion. Interesting, I thought, that an emotion changes slightly as it is filtered through different personalities...
That is really cool Suzanne, what an interesting exercise. I've resolved to try it myself! And that is a compelling idea - that an emotion changes its appearance, depending on the personality expressing it. I could see how some of them were raising an eyebrow or doing that thing with the mouth, like pursing their lips... the whole exercise is so clever.
Thanks. I got a list of emotions and thought if I could draw each of the emotions, it would help me learn to draw but also it might teach me something about the emotions, to "try on" each of them. Now that I am thinking of it, I am going to try it again. What happened, as I will post, is that faces started to assert their own emotions and I got more interested in what they wanted to express. But now, thinking about the initial impulse, I think it's worth trying it again, if just to see how emotions can transform. I'd love to see what come up with if you try it. The most freeing thing I've found is to not care if it's "good" given some idea I have about what good is, which is often outdated, and conventional. And to embrace things that turn out to be odd and a little weird.
Is it skepticism? Suspicion? Curiosity? I love the drawings. Amazing that this is your first attempt, wish I were 1/2 as talented.
Hi Teresa,
Thank you for your kind comment! And you are right! It was suspicion. But every time I tried it, it was a slightly different version of suspicion. Interesting, I thought, that an emotion changes slightly as it is filtered through different personalities...
That is really cool Suzanne, what an interesting exercise. I've resolved to try it myself! And that is a compelling idea - that an emotion changes its appearance, depending on the personality expressing it. I could see how some of them were raising an eyebrow or doing that thing with the mouth, like pursing their lips... the whole exercise is so clever.
Thanks. I got a list of emotions and thought if I could draw each of the emotions, it would help me learn to draw but also it might teach me something about the emotions, to "try on" each of them. Now that I am thinking of it, I am going to try it again. What happened, as I will post, is that faces started to assert their own emotions and I got more interested in what they wanted to express. But now, thinking about the initial impulse, I think it's worth trying it again, if just to see how emotions can transform. I'd love to see what come up with if you try it. The most freeing thing I've found is to not care if it's "good" given some idea I have about what good is, which is often outdated, and conventional. And to embrace things that turn out to be odd and a little weird.