"Learn to capture the essence of emotions in your characters by mastering facial expressions in cartooning and anime. Start with basic shapes: circles for heads and simple lines for features.

Raw silent footage from an instructional drawing film by Frank Webb, focused on teaching viewers how to create faces using letters ... forming simple cartoon-like expressions.

Each answer will pinpoint the exact muscles involved in that emotion and explain the subtle differences between expressions, drawing on pioneering research by psychologists Paul Ekman and Dacher ...