How to Draw Girls’ Facial Expressions by Kakimaku – Gestures, Poses, and Emotional Expressions

The author is Kakimaku, a popular illustrator with approximately 110,000 Instagram followers, and this is an illustration technique book that teaches how to draw popular 2.5D-style girls!

Expressions are emotions from within brought outward. By skillfully drawing the informational aspect of facial expressions, you can create illustrations that convey much more effectively. This book explains how to depict various basic female emotions, such as “joy,” “surprise,” “fear,” “disgust,” “anger,” “sadness,” and “delight,” as well as how to draw illustrations with a nuanced atmosphere, like scenes from movies or cuts from fashion magazines and photo collections.

The 2.5D style is currently trendy, positioned between realistic and manga-like expressions. The book carefully explains how to draw facial parts like eyes, mouth, nose, and ears over several pages each. Moreover, it teaches techniques to add hands, poses, and gestures to enhance charm, not just facial expressions, offering a method to draw girls more brilliantly.

● Contents Overview

Introduction

PART-1 Drawing Attractive Girls
What are expressions? What are emotions? What are gestures? What are poses?
Chapter 1: How to Draw a Front View Face
Chapter 2: How to Draw a Side View and Angled Face
Chapter 3: How to Draw Eyes
Chapter 4: How to Draw Eyebrows
Chapter 5: How to Draw the Nose
Chapter 6: How to Draw the Mouth
Chapter 7: How to Draw Ears

PART-2: How to Draw Hair
Hairstyles, like facial expressions, significantly impact a person’s appearance. This part explains key points to keep in mind when drawing hair (line art), how to differentiate hairstyles, and the drawing steps.
Chapter 1: Practice Drawing Smooth Lines!
Chapter 2: Drawing Various Hairstyles
Bob Hair / Short Hair / Long Hair / Twin Tails

PART-3: Drawing Different Emotional Expressions
“Joy, Anger, Sadness, Enjoyment” represents a variety of emotions.
Chapter 1: Joy
Chapter 2: Anger
Chapter 3: Sadness
Chapter 4: Enjoyment

PART-4: Creating Expressions with Poses
This section provides explanations on how to add poses and compose illustrations to make them more appealing.

PART-5: Enhancing Charm by Adding Hands
Using hand poses can further elevate the atmosphere and appeal of an illustration. This part provides a lecture on the basic structure and drawing of hands.

PART-6: Various Expressions and Gestures
Let’s draw original illustrations of girls focusing on expressions and gestures. Decide on a theme or image → Gather reference materials → Determine composition → Rough sketch → Line art
Chapter 1: “A Girl Who Is Worrying or Thinking”
Chapter 2: “A Stylish Woman”
Chapter 3: “A Girl Cheering with Joy”
Chapter 4: “A Girl Sincerely Apologizing”
Chapter 5: “A Girl Who Is Panicking”

PART-7: How to Draw a Wink
This part explains the key points for drawing a winking expression.

PART-8: Drawing an Enigmatic Expression
This section introduces points for drawing an enigmatic expression.

PART-9: Cover Illustration Making Process
This section explains the process and specific steps involved in creating the cover illustration for this book.

Gallery at the End of the Book