Visio SmartFace
Visio People Shapes are very popular on this web site, and I just found an excuse to create some more!
Through the magic of Facebook and Twitter, I stumbled upon an interesting video from a very creative guy named Austin Kleon.
In the video, he shows us How to Draw Faces, using a humorously mathematical approach.
The technique translated quite well into a Visio SmartShape, which you can download here and use to add feeling and emotion to your diagrams!
The video starts out with two mysterious axes of simple lines and curves:
When the matrix is filled in, we see the entire human experience summed up in a 3 x 3 matrix:
I was able to further reduce what it is to be a living, feeling carbon-based unit to a single Visio SmartShape. You can configure it, as usual, by right-clicking:
You can also set the options for multiple faces at once by selecting several shapes, then using Shape Data fields, which correspond to the menu items.
Visio SmartFace (59.58 kB) - 2374 downloads
Note: donations are not required for this download. However, we really appreciate any help we can get!
Feel free to try out the download first, then donate afterwards if you find it really useful. Thank you!
I would have included an extra dimension. Eyes open, closed, and winking.