Snagged this meme from Sam, who snagged it from DeviantART! The 25 Facial Expressions meme is a pretty common one, but what we tend to forget is that the face is not the total of a character's expression. Expression comes from the hands, the posture, the movement, and a character's presence. It is the sum of its parts and can make or break a character's impression on the viewer. The challenge of this exercise is to take a character and to define the various expressions in a way unique to those characters.
Don't have a character to try it out on? You can try using a generic figure instead and just practicing body language in general.
NOTE: If you try this exercise, be sure to tag it as
'Body Language' in your results post, so we can keep up with who has tried this one out.
The meme:
