This listen we're now going to take a look at the elements of expressing with the eyes that we're going
to focus on focus dilation as well as Eilidh coverage.
And then start with focus.
Now we already talked a little bit about focus but focus itself also has a usefulness.
When we're discussing creating expressions with the US now as has been mentioned we typically don't
want to draw the pupils looking directly out at the viewer.
This really makes the character have a blink or a data type of stare.
However when we're talking about this blank stare in terms of expression it can be useful.
So it's something to keep in mind and that's something that we do want to do is typically we want to
make sure that we have a slight amount of squinting happening in the pupils so that they're slightly
moved inwards right on inwards of the iris itself and this creates the impression that the character
is looking at something they're not blank staring.
So keep this in mind as you move forward creating your expressions.
Let's take a look at the levels of dilation now.
And starting off the pupil itself can really be expanded really widely when the character is looking
at something they love something they like or they're looking at a very very bright lights and in a
real human eye our pupils expand when there is very little light in order to light more light in and
they contract or dilate when there is very little light.
Conversely we can make the irises.
I mean the pupils are very very small and this is good when you're having your character express a very
surprised feeling or they're under the influence of some kind of chemicals or they're under shock or
they've been taken over by some evil force or something like that.
You can dilate the pupils as a way to express this with their eyes.
So there's a lot of uses for expanding and dilating the pupils.
Do keep that in mind.
Next let's take a look at Ireland coverage and effectively when we're wanting to combine all the facial
expressions together the eyes are the main focal point and we can do a few things with the eyes taking
two kinds of dilation taking into account focus and the taking into account the coverage of the eyelid
over the iris and the pupil.
And in this instance number one here we have a typical neutral style.
We have most of the roundness of the iris being seen and we can see the full pupil the number two.
Another example of a typical neutral coverage where we have a partial coverage of the entire Iris which
is also very common.
Either of these or both of your types of neutral looks
then when we moved to shocked or amazed types of expressions within the pupils dilated or expanded we
wanted to ensure that we are keeping space between the upper eyelid and the lower eyelid.
If you've drawn one in and this is a typical characteristic of the shocked or very wide open eyes that
there is space running all the way around the iris.
So let's call this shocked for now or really open run very very open eyes.
And then in our example Number four we have the half closed or partially closed on.
And in this instance we can use this for indicating tightness in the character or anger certain types
of anger or intensity or Also those sort of and come to bed eyes as they say those less diyas Those
look at me eyes.
So that's what we can do by partially covering the the iris itself and also ensuring that we're also
covering a large majority of the pupil.
So do keep that in mind.
You do want to cover the pupil when you're doing the closed partially lid closure for those expressions
and then an eye expression.
Number five we have the normal closed eye and it's typical characteristic really is that it curves downwards
and that's just when the character's eyes are closed or they're praying or they are sleeping and then
conversely number six we have the eye shaped design where the curve is the opposite way round and in
this instance it's one of those hot felt eyes being closed when the character is smiling.
Are they really experiencing joy and they close their eyes and they look to the sky and in a nutshell
these six states of eye closure help us to manipulate and expand on the character's emotions we combine
these states of eyelid closure with the people dilation with the focus in addition to the eyebrow movements
and mouth to create literally innumerable facial expressions for our characters.
That is the end of the lesson and I'll see you guys in the next lesson.