27 Easy Emotions Drawing Tutorials

How do you feel today? Expressing big feelings can be hard. Drawing them can help. Check out these easy emotions drawing tutorials to put what you're feeling down on paper.

Some emotions are easy to draw. For example, you know that a smile means happiness and a frown means sadness. But what about all the other emotions in between? Or the different degrees of each emotion?

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Below, you will learn the basics of how facial features convey emotions. For example, furrowed brows are associated with negative emotions, and changes to the shape of the mouth can also be seen in the shape of the eyes.


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There are also a few animal emotions represented in this list. Animals don't speak so much through facial expressions as through body language, as you shall see.

Drawing different emotions on the same character can be a great way to practice your drawing skills. Below, you will find some characters repeated. For example, the cartoon boy is shown with surprise, tiredness, sadness, and more.

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As a challenge, can you apply what you've learned to draw your own character with different emotions? This is an important exercise if you want to draw a comic book or animate a movie.

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