I have always had difficulty with female anatomy. Now watch me struggle with a female character emoting XD. From my own observation, there’s not really that much of a difference? Though I think for men, they are less restrained (unless they grew up in a toxic masculine environment in which they are discouraged from expressing emotions) from the emotional range compared to women because I think women are generally discouraged from being too “comical” or “unladylike”, or maybe the emotional range just seems more subdued (only the rare occasion you get a unrestrained emotional response, which is why I guess I like “My Fair Lady”, the actress has a full range of emotion and posture from “uncivilized” to “prim and proper”)

I always really admired animators and even taken classes in the field. It was more work than I was anticipating, but it really did help me as an illustrator. Anyways, this was based on the Expression sheet sketches by Alexander Snow. I feel as illustrators, we tend to just default to “sexy” or “cute” facial expressions, but we don’t often push ourselves to displaying the full range of facial expressions, including the derpy ones. Planning to use this as a kind of emotion reference for myself, but will try to deviate to more of my own style.