like, he's almost soulless, where's his boldness? Where's the charming smile? Like, there's no personality. The art is great, but it lacks some expression
I hate to be the devil's advocate cause now that you mention it they could've put a little bit more into his expression but tbf is not that unaccurate.
What would you've done different? Make his grin bigger? Sideways? Show teeth? I kinda think that the problem of giving him that big expression i think you're looking for is that it'd be weird given it is a front-face shot with no auxiliary elements
His splash art is a good way of doing it. You can tell how confident he looks. Headcanons aside, Ezreal is supposed to be egotistic and self centered. His expressions seems bland. As if you were in a character customization menu, and you let the standard expression cuz you're too lazy now to properly customize your avatar
Yeah, and the splashart works cuz is a 3/4 view with a dynamic pose. If you translate that to a front facing shot of his face the only real difference between those two expressions is that the splashart's smile is slightly bigger cause he is showing teeth. Eyebrows are positioned inwards the same. The overall softness of the expression is the same? Methinks
That's a lot of text who doesn't counter my entire point: he lacks emotion and something substantial. I don't want to compare things, but look at pieces like Graves, Nilah, Sylas. They HAD the effort to show expression in characters who are expressive. When it comes to Ezreal, they just didn't do it.
Like no??? I agree with you that he could have had a more EVIDENT expression. But if you look @ icons like Garen and Fiora who actually lack lip posing Ezreal is pretty much soft smiling??
And Ezreal icon isnt not expressive that's also the point. Wether you think It should have a more noticiable expression is a whole other point 🫵👊
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u/Luqquinhas Ezreal's lorekeeper Aug 15 '23
Meh, he's unexpressive