Product Description
The only comprehensive visual reference of children’s and teens’ faces and emotions * Inspiration and reference for artists everywhere * More than 2,500 pictures, plus a phoneme gallery and age progressions * Follow-up to Facial Expressions--more than 25,000 sold! Babies are so unpredictable. You put them down in one place, you never know if they’ll be there when you come back. And don’t even get us started on kids and teens. Artists have it particularly rough with volatile young people, because their facial expressions are just as fleeting. Happy one minute, sad the next. Puzzled for a second, then astounded. Facial Expressions Babies to Teens solves the artists’ problems with a dazzling array of more than 2,500 photographs of fifty babies, kids, and teens demonstrating every human emotion through facial expression. Artists, animators, cartoonists--everyone who needs to capture any look from babyhood to age 19 must have a copy of this fascinating reference. With extra sections on anatomy, hats, and close-ups of phonemes, plus a remarkable age-progression gallery, Facial Expressions Babies to Teens is the only book an artist can really depend on. And we promise it will stay right where you put it, every time.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 8 reviews)

Mixed feelings by A. Personeni (Australia)

2 Stars
March 20, 2009
I am an illustrator and thought this book would help me with the drawing of facial exprssion, especially with children. Unfortunately, I am disapointed that too many of the expressions photographed in the book are not realistic: the children make faces, they obviously had much fun during the shoot but very few of the photos are usueful at all. I was hoping for more photos of faces expressing actual human emotions, not open mouth and grimacing faces. The book seem better for people drawing caricatures or possibly cartoons, but not very useful for realistic picture books. A positive however: the age progression gallery at the end of the book is of interest. Finally, the book is VERY POORLY MADE and the binding came appart with two days of actually using the book.

Photo examples by Kari Mecca (Anaheim, CA USA)

3 Stars
January 12, 2009
An interesting array of photos to use as a reference. Very few example drawings. A reference book, not instructional, but a welcome addition to my bookshelf.

Great teaching tool by H. Naegle

4 Stars
December 01, 2008
I bought this book as a reference for my Toddler class to see different expressions. They loved it! So many different children with a variety of expressions.

Good book with a word of caution by D. Flaws (Southern CA)

4 Stars
November 24, 2008
These books by Mark Simon are great for cartooning or caricature study. The only problem I see is if you are looking for reference to use in more realistic images or trying to learn the proportions of the face. The images all have a slight 'fish-eye' distortion which makes them unsuitable for realistic work. The fish-eye effect pulls the center of the image forward and makes it larger and flattens the edges and makes them recede. This distortion also adds age to the subject so be aware that the kids pictures might not seem to agree with the listed age. This is really noticeable in the front view. Kids have small faces and features inside big heads, that's what makes them so cute, but when you distort the face like this it makes the face bigger relative to the head and ages them. I'd caution artists who are learning how to draw the face to not try to copy these images exactly as you'll end up with a slight distortion in your realistic work that my be difficult to change later on (if you ever even notice what the problem is). To learn expressions and how the forms of the face connect these books are real good but I think the choice to get in close with the camera to really emphasize the expression was a bad idea from an artist's standpoint, especially for these young faces. From a sales standpoint maybe it works better to get customers attention with the exaggerated pictures. I'm writing this review because when I saw the 1st book I thought it would be really useful but it turns out I need more realistic reference. So I'm hoping the author reads this and considers my opinion, maybe for future products because I'd really like to use these books and recommend them to students.

good but... by Sequoyah

4 Stars
November 13, 2008
It is a good book and has merit as an artists tool however it is the same thing you get from other books that are supposed to be "facial expressions" which fall short.The problem is you can't fake expressions of grief or pain or even a smile. The expressions become a little vague and some rather confused. Oh well until something better comes this is as good as any.

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