HUMAN ANATOMY: FACE

EXPRESSIONS
SESSION 6, QUARTER 3
 FACE EXPRESSIONS
• When you smile, you do not only lift the corners of
your lips up. There is a cascade of muscle movement
following the expression to create a real smile on your
whole face. The eyebrows, eye shape, wings of the
nose, shape of the mouth and much more – all will
move depending on the emotion that is expressed.
FACE EXPRESSIONS

1- Neutral, 2- Joy, 3- Sadness, 4- Shock, 5- Fear, 6- Anger, 7-Disgust

 MOVEMENT OF THE EYE AND EYEBROW

People often call the eyes “the windows to the

soul.” It is true, eyes are extremely an expressive
feature of the face. Just eyes by themselves can tell
you if a person is smiling, scared, or angry! There
are many groups of muscles surrounding the eye.
The eyelids can be pulled wide to show whole the
iris, or area around eyes can be contracted to squint
eyes and create wrinkles. The eyebrows on their
own have separate groups of muscles to pull the
outer and inner ends – that is why eyebrows can
curve up and down and create a wave shape!
Additional special muscles can pull both eyebrows
together above the bridge of the nose.
MOVEMENT OF THE EYE AND EYEBROW
MOVEMENT OF THE MOUTH
 MOVEMENT OF THE NOSE

The nose is an unappreciated feature

of emotions, but when treated right, it
can add subtle yet important
expression to the face. Notice that
the nostrils stretch together with the
mouth in N4. The nostrils will open
wider when you inhale deeply. This
can create an intense look on your
character like in N5. When angry or
disgusted, we wrinkle our nose like in
N2 and N3.
FINAL OUTPUT: MY FOUR FREQUENT MOODS