Coloured Sketch: Apology

Drawn By: WrittenDusk

This is the first time I did some editing after finishing a drawing to add some effects. Let me know what you think about the blurring. I feel like it adds more of a photo/movie feel, but this drawing doesn't benefit too much from it. Also I played around with the framing of the drawing.

I impulsively did this sketch after one of my friends showed me a video on Youtube. I will have the video linked below. The video is a clip from a Japanese variety show with the guest actress being, Ishihara Satomi. During the segment within the video, the actress is given the challenge to convincingly apologize to the male actor in a short skit. 

I was surprised at how effective her apology was. I'm honestly convinced that any men would melt after seeing that expression in an apology, haha! That expression is just so good! I had to make an attempt at drawing it. 

It was much harder than expected. I did purposefully try to draw it in my own style, to see if I can make the expression work in as a cartoon, so that maybe part of the reason it was so hard. I also made an effort to avoid making the girl look too much like Ishihara Satomi, but it kinda ended up looking similar anyways; her likeness helps with learning the expression. I think I did an okay job, but it probably would have been better if I did a portrait of her expression first then drew it in my style. 

The two things this exercise has taught me are probably some of the most important things I've learned since starting this blog. The first being that some more subtle expressions are actually conveyed in a sequence; as in there are multiple facial movements used to convey one emotion. Secondly that subtle expression are subtle, haha! 

As obvious as that sounds, we actually notice smaller changes on a person's face than we are normally conscious of. You are unaware of what really changed on the face, but you can feel that something changed and is different from before. It makes it difficult to capture in a drawing.

I'd really like to get better at subtle expressions. I feel like this is where animation lack in comparison to live action. This is likely one of the aspects of what we artists and art enthusiasts refer to as "essence".


Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqul48dI9UY