Facial Expressions: A Visual Reference for Artists

629 Pages·2005·40.92 MB·English

by  Mark Simon

Acquisitions Editor, Joy Aquilino
Project Editor, Robbie Capp
Designer, Mark Simon
Graphic Production, Hector Campbell
Copyright © 2005 Mark Simon
Published in 2005
by Watson-Guptill Publications, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York
www.crownpublishing.com
www.watsonguptill.com
Library of Congress Control Number 2004116562
eISBN: 978-0-8230-0831-5
All rights reserved.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
OF COURSE, A BOOK LIKE this could not exist without the wonderful
models who gave their time so generously and posed their faces so
expressively for my camera. On behalf of artists around the world, I
thank you.
I am also grateful to the incredibly talented professionals whose art for
this book inspires me—as it will generations of artists who will benefit
from the imaginative work created for these pages based on my galleries
of reference photos.
My immediate and extended family will be looking for their thanks, and
they deserve it! Not only do they put up with me day after day—they
also agreed to pose for me while I tried to make them look as funny,
scary, and uncomfortable as possible. Thank you, and I love you.
To my assistants: The only reason I can continue to produce books on
top of everything else I do is because you all give me such great help. I
hope I have helped you as much as you have helped me. Thank you,
Richard Bartley, Chris Boyd, Cow Lauterbach, and Cindy Rangel.
And, of course, to the crew at Watson-Guptill, thanks. Thank you all for
sharing in my vision and helping me make it better. In particular, I want
to thank Joy Aquilino for guiding me along the way, Robbie Capp for
pushing me in the editing, and Sivan Earnest for her cover design and
help in designing the text.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MARK SIMON has been a professional artist for over twenty-five years.
His background includes live-action and animation design and
production, advertising design, comic strips, storyboarding, lecturing,
and writing. He is based in Orlando, Florida, where he founded and
owns A&S Animation, Inc., a cel animation house, and Animatics &
Storyboards, Inc., the largest storyboard house in the southern United
States, with more than 1,600 productions to its credit. A&S Animation
develops and produces animation for commercials, television, training
videos, mobile streaming media, and the Web. The A&S team has
produced award-winning shorts, commercials, and shows for
Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, and designed sets and special effects
for live-action feature films. Simon teaches at the DAVE (Digital
Animation and Visual Effects) School, located at Universal Studios
Orlando, and his animation and storyboarding articles have appeared in
various industry magazines. He is also the author of Producing
Independent 2D Character Animation and Storyboards: Motion in Art
(Second Edition), both published by Focal Press.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Acknowledgments
About the Author
INTRODUCTION
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
SKULL GALLERY
EXPRESSIONS GALLERY
AGES 20–27
AGES 31–39
AGES 40–47
AGES 50–54
AGES 65–69
AGES 76–78
AGES 83
SEQUENTIAL-EXPRESSIONS GALLERY
KISSING GALLERY
PHONEMES GALLERY
HATS AND HEADGEAR GALLERY
SPORTS HEADGEAR
ETHNIC HEADDRESSES
CAPS AND CASUAL HATS
DRESSIER HATS
SAFETY HEADGEAR
WORK HATS
MODEL CONTACTS
ARTIST CONTACTS
INDEXES