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Holy Mackerel! What a smile (above)! The cheeks are amazing. When someone smiles like this, do the cheek muscles inflate or simply bunch up? If they bunch up, then why doesn't that steal mass from some other part of the face? Almost the whole muzzle gets larger.
Also interesting is the triangle in which her nose and mouth are embedded. They do lose a little mass, but not enough to explain where the cheek bulge comes from. When the triangle stretches out to the sides like this, you can see the features wrap around the vertical mouth cylinder.
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I love clothes that wear the human. Here (above) John Carradine is enveloped by a predatory Gaham Wilson jacket . The jacket is the sentient creature, Carradine is merely the conveyance.
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What a silhouette! Look at the way the man's features (above) wrap around the front of his head. And that furrowed brow...!
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Nanga! Nanga! Nanga! ! I love "S" curves in figure photography (above).
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| A typical nerd face (above)...or is it? If you imagine a normal hair cut, no glasses and a closed mouth, the guy doesn't look like a nerd anymore. It makes you wonder how many nerds you know that are really normal looking people who dress funny. |
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Above, a "Z" curve! Also, a fascinating head shape and chest on this girl. The straight hair emphasizes them.
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Some girls (above) are self-conscious about having braces, and they try to cover them up by smiling in a strange way. I sympathize. After a lifetime of smiling in a way that covers up my buck teeth, I've learned to let my teeth show naturally. I'd hide them if I thought it would do any good, but there's no use trying to conceal what can't be concealed. Actually, I kinda like them now.
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People's whole lower muzzle (above) withdraws into their face and neck when they smile, or at least it seems to. The effect is heightened by the whole head being pulled back and the cheeks being thrust out. Fascinating, eh?
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12 comments:
Fascinating indeed. I love it when it a girl's cheeks get huge like in the first photo you posted. I actually know a few girls who kinda look like that, with those same huge looking eyes and cheeks. I'm even friends with one of them.
I've been wearing braces for a couple of years now, at least since eighth grade, and at first, I hated the experience, but I quickly got used to having them on the time. So much that I stopped noticing I even had them on in the first place. I used to have such crooked and awful overbite before I had them installed. It was basically this overbite.
The third photo kinda looked like Spencer Tracy to me for some reason. I wonder if that was intentional or not. I think he has one of the most interesting heads I've ever seen from any actor. Very complex with an interesting forehead. Amazing.
It's all incredibly fascinating.
Uncle Eddie, remember when you told me that I could post a link in this comment section to my comic when it's finished? Well, it's not nearly finished yet, but I put up the front cover and a teaser. I'd like to know what you think of it.
Shouldn't be hard at all to figure out how the facial musculature works. Muscles with a fat layer, different configs for everyone. That girl has a great dimple. Speaking of which--I saw a news segment recently on surgically created dimples. Costs about 3k, done by taking a stitch up inside the cheek. Of course nothing really comes across as well as the ones nature bestows.
On another note-that's the best picture of John Carradine I've seen in a long time. maybe ever!
Great post, Eddie, love these ones.
anon: I dunno, I miss the thinstache.
Eddie, I think when cheeks bunch up, the flesh below the cheeks become tight. When the face is relaxed, the flesh below the skin is loose and hangs down. When a smile happens, the flesh has no "air" in it. It's tightly wound.
Paul Shane's face when he's singing is very nice to draw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKSb-B2aiJA&feature=related
If you have dimples when you smile (I do) feel around between the cheek bones and the nose on the upper lip. You can feel whats basicaly a resiviour of flesh that bunches up over the cheekbone when you smile. Face anatomy boggles me.
John Carradine is enveloped by a predatory Gahan Wilson jacket."
A perfect description of his jacket. It looks like that's what the descriptive "bumpy tweedy" came from.
Sorry to interrupt the comments, but is this opening animated from your drawings, Eddie?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsharakIDVc&feature=related
Sure looks like yours.
Anon: Like a lot of people in the industry, I prefer not to comment on recent projects I've been unvolved in.
Wow! Great pics!
Where did you get this gorgeous women photos?
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