Draw Anime or Manga Faces

Drawing an anime face in the same way that a professional does is something that you can learn to do at home too. With a little patience and practice, following these steps will help you to achieve your desired anime drawing style. Let's begin!

Steps

A Female Face

  1. Drawing lightly, sketch a circle to draw the forehead.
  2. Sketch a line from the top of the circle to the area where the chin will be located, to determine the center of the face.
  3. Complete the shape of the head by sketching the shape of the jaw/cheeks and the chin.
  4. Sketch lines to determine the area where the eyes, nose, and mouth will be located.
  5. Sketch additional lines as guides to determine the size of the eyes and the ears.
  6. Sketch the details of the face using the lines as a guide. Use Draw-Anime-Eyes to help you draw eyes.
  7. Sketch the lines for the hair, neck and torso as needed.
  8. Add accessories, ornaments, etc...
  9. Use a smaller tipped drawing tool to refine the artwork and add more detail.
  10. Draw outlines using the refined sketch as a guide.
  11. Erase the sketch marks to produce a clean outlined drawing.
  12. Add the base color of the artwork.
  13. Add additional color as shading to complete the artwork.

A Male Face

  1. Draw the head.
  2. Complete the shape of the head by drawing the lines for the cheeks, jaw, and chin.
  3. Draw guide lines to mark the areas of the face such as eyes, nose, and ears.
  4. Add the details of the face and ears.
  5. Sketch the hair and hair lines.
  6. Add accessories.
  7. Use a smaller tipped drawing tool to refine the artwork and add more detail.
  8. Outline the sketch.
  9. Erase the sketch marks to produce a clean outlined drawing.
  10. Add the base color of the artwork.
  11. Add additional color as shading to complete the artwork.

Method Three: A Young Girl

  1. Draw a circle, with a line indicating the center of the face's plane, don`t the bottom hemisphere of your circle and coming down to a point at the chin. You can adjust this line to get different face shapes for different types of characters.
  2. Draw in the eye line - this should appear about halfway down the eyes. Again, your eyes will vary depending on the character you're drawing. Girls/young children/heroes/protagonists' eyes tend to be larger while boys/ tomboys/adults/ and antagonists have narrow eyes; but it's really up to you. Eyes are one of the most important features of manga, they say a lot about the person and their mood. Drawing the eyes narrowed shows thoughtfulness/ anger, drawing them bigger and rounder with bigger pupils shows surprise. Eyes that are drawn wide open with small pupils shows fear.
  3. Finish drawing the rest of the face. A straight or curved nose, a small mouth. Boys noses are bigger: when showing happiness they're usually high up and rounded, slanted eyebrows show anger, upwards slanted eyebrows show surprise etc.
  4. Draw the hair. This is the fun part! Anime/manga hair is very unique and you can make it however you want.
  5. Finally, ink your drawing, and color, if desired - traditionally this is done in watercolor and ink, or CG, experimenting with different media.



Tips

  • Try to experiment. You never know, you may make up your own style of drawing.
  • Try to learn more on drawing faces. You can never learn too much.
  • There are heaps of places to get info; the Internet, wikiHow, coloring books, TV shows (such as Naruto), and anything you think you can get information on.
  • In the end, anime boils down to a style born from cost-cutting methods in animation production. Do not limit yourself to outright copying or tracing pictures, and do not limit yourself to a single conventional look. Occasionally reference anime with not-so-conventional and expressive art styles (e.g. studio Ghibli, Gainax/Trigger, Mamoru Hosoda movies), realism, or even western cartoons. It will greatly help with drawing expressions that feel alive.

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