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This isn't even really helpful it's just me wrapping things up lel

A few final thoughts: Everyone has some understanding of expressions because we're all social animals who interact with each other from birth. That's how we can understand with only a few penstrokes that something is a smile and something is a frown. But the same issue applies to all art you're focusing on, and it's this: we also subconciously simplify everything until we've sat down and forced ourselves to examine it. That's why it's so hard to draw hands. Everyone understands the basic form of the hands, but when trying to nail their shape an anatomy, most people screw up until they force themselves to learn.
The same thing applies to expressions. Yes, you'll be able to let people know when a character is happy because you're a human and you know what a happy human looks like. But can you convey that your character is happy in a bittersweet way? How ambiguous is it going to get? Are you going to end up making your character look happy and also sorta sleepy or dopey instead of making them look like they're happy and sad at the same time? Which is why, with everything else, your goal is to memorize as wide a variety of emotional responses as you can, try to wrap your head around it on a deeper level then just raised eyebrows and raised ends of the mouth, and pull up as much of that feeling as you possibly can so you can slap it on a page.

I seriously don't know how helpful this will be to anybody, but hey, if it helped my friend, maybe it'll at least give you something to think about when you're making a character laugh at a fart.

Part 1: fav.me/dbz5d1t
Part 2: fav.me/dbz5dyd
Part 3: fav.me/dbz5f11

EDIT 7/8/2022: keep drawin kidz

Description
This isn't even really helpful it's just me wrapping things up lel

A few final thoughts: Everyone has some understanding of expressions because we're all social animals who interact with each other from birth. That's how we can understand with only a few penstrokes that something is a smile and something is a frown. But the same issue applies to all art you're focusing on, and it's this: we also subconciously simplify everything until we've sat down and forced ourselves to examine it. That's why it's so hard to draw hands. Everyone understands the basic form of the hands, but when trying to nail their shape an anatomy, most people screw up until they force themselves to learn.
The same thing applies to expressions. Yes, you'll be able to let people know when a character is happy because you're a human and you know what a happy human looks like. But can you convey that your character is happy in a bittersweet way? How ambiguous is it going to get? Are you going to end up making your character look happy and also sorta sleepy or dopey instead of making them look like they're happy and sad at the same time? Which is why, with everything else, your goal is to memorize as wide a variety of emotional responses as you can, try to wrap your head around it on a deeper level then just raised eyebrows and raised ends of the mouth, and pull up as much of that feeling as you possibly can so you can slap it on a page.

I seriously don't know how helpful this will be to anybody, but hey, if it helped my friend, maybe it'll at least give you something to think about when you're making a character laugh at a fart.

Part 1: fav.me/dbz5d1t
Part 2: fav.me/dbz5dyd
Part 3: fav.me/dbz5f11

EDIT 7/8/2022: keep drawin kidz