This article was co-authored by Renée Plevy and by staff writer, Hunter Rising. Renée Plevy is an Internationally Acclaimed Portrait Artist from New York/Palm Beach who has painted The Grand Dames of Palm Beach and various celebrities and community leaders. With over 50 years of experience, Renée specializes in painting realistically in oil and capturing the soul of the person. She has studied under internationally renowned portrait artists John Howard Sanden, David Leffel, Robert Beverly Hale, Clyde Smith, and Leonid Gervits. Renée is featured in over 68 shows and galleries including a one-woman museum show at the Paterson Museum. She has garnered numerous awards including “Artist of the Year” from The Bloomfield Art League and First Prize from the Boca Raton Museum Artist’s Guild. Renée has even painted a portrait of celebrity, Vanilla Ice. She also teaches at the Boca Raton Museum Art School - formerly at SVA in Manhattan.
Anime and manga are popular Japanese forms of animation and comics that have a very distinctive art style. If you want to draw your favorite character or design one on your own, start by designing their head and face so you can sketch what they look like. When you first start the head, draw the outline and the basic shapes so you can properly place the features. Once you add the eyes, nose, ears, and mouth, you can erase your guidelines and sketch in a hairstyle. With a bit of practice and patience, you’ll be able to design anime faces in no time!
This article was co-authored by Renée Plevy and by staff writer, Hunter Rising. Renée Plevy is an Internationally Acclaimed Portrait Artist from New York/Palm Beach who has painted The Grand Dames of Palm Beach and various celebrities and community leaders. With over 50 years of experience, Renée specializes in painting realistically in oil and capturing the soul of the person. She has studied under internationally renowned portrait artists John Howard Sanden, David Leffel, Robert Beverly Hale, Clyde Smith, and Leonid Gervits. Renée is featured in over 68 shows and galleries including a one-woman museum show at the Paterson Museum. She has garnered numerous awards including “Artist of the Year” from The Bloomfield Art League and First Prize from the Boca Raton Museum Artist’s Guild. Renée has even painted a portrait of celebrity, Vanilla Ice. She also teaches at the Boca Raton Museum Art School - formerly at SVA in Manhattan. This article has been viewed 1, 641, 317 times.
How To Draw Anime And Manga Facial Expressions
To draw an anime or manga-style face, start by sketching the basic head shape. Draw a circle, then make a vertical guideline down the middle of it. Sketch a horizontal guideline about one-third of the way up from the bottom of the circle to mark the level where the eyes will go. Then, draw another horizontal line close to the bottom of the circle to mark the position of the nose. Measure the distance between the eye line and the nose line, then measure that same distance down from the nose line and draw a third horizontal line for the chin. Next, sketch the jaw. The jawline should extend from the widest part of the circle down to the middle of the line you made for the chin on each side. If you’re drawing a child or a female character, make the jaw curved and the chin pointy. For adult male characters, create a more angular jaw and a wider chin. Finally, draw lines coming down on either side of the jaw to indicate the neck. When you have the face shape down, begin adding facial features. First, sketch in the ears between the eye and nose lines. Then, draw the tip of the nose where the vertical guideline and the nose line intersect. Since anime and manga characters often have very small noses, you don’t have to do much more than draw a small, curved line to indicate the outline of the nose. Next, sketch in the eyes just below your first horizontal guideline. Depending on how you want the character’s eyes to look, you can indicate the top of the eye with either a simple straight line or a thicker, curved lash line. Draw a bottom line for the eye underneath the top line, somewhere above the level of the nose tip. Make a half-circle under the top eye line to represent the iris, and then add a pupil and a couple of highlights to make the eyes look bright and shiny. Draw an arched line above each eye, just above the eye line, to represent the eyebrows. Add a curved horizontal line between the nose and the chin for the mouth. If you want, you can add a slightly smaller line underneath to indicate the bottom lip. Once you’re satisfied with the face, erase the guidelines and fill in details, such as the hair and any distinctive features you want the character to have, like freckles or wrinkles. Go over your pencil lines with ink and add shading or color to finish up your drawing.This step by step tutorial shows how to draw an anime or manga male head and face from the front and side views.
In this tutorial we will be drawing what can be the face of a young adult or high school age male anime character.
Manga and anime male characters of this age tend to have larger chins and longer faces with smaller/narrower eyes when compared to their female counterparts or younger males. Though this can also vary based on style.
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If you are going to be following the tutorial with pencil and paper be sure to draw light lines until you are done with the facial feature and hair placement steps. You will need to erase parts of the drawing afterwards.
Make the top part of the head close to a circle and from there project two lines angled inwards towards the middle of the face followed by a set of curves and two more angled lines pointing further inwards. Join the two sets of lines at the chin. Draw the chin itself with a small curve but don’t make it too pointy or the character will look less masculine.
Make a small bump around the eyebrow areas followed by an indent that transitions into the nose area. You can see step four of this tutorial for positioning the nose. But do your best to estimate it’s placement at this point.
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Also at this stage you can simply draw a straight line from the tip of the nose to the bottom of the chin.
Add the bottom of the jaw by projecting a line form slightly above the oval and then curving it into another line that basically transitions into the chin.
To position the ears draw a vertical line through the middle of the head and another line between that and the chin. Draw the ears with their top and bottom between the two lines.
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You can see the inner details of the ears above but you may want to save drawing these for after you place the rest of the facial features.
The bigger and wider you draw the eyes the younger your character will look. In this case the character is a young adult (or close) so the eyes will be smaller then those of a boy.
Draw the eyes with their top portion touching the horizontal halfway point through the face (use the line from the previous step) and leave enough space between them to fit another eye.
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Please note that the eyes will only be positioned this way when in their natural state if they are open wider they can go past this line and if shut they will usually go below the line. For now you can simply draw the their basic outline. The details will be added in a later step.
Draw the eyebrows slightly above the eyes. Anime and manga male eyebrows are often drawn thicker then female ones especially in older characters. But it also depends on the style.
Place the details of the nose so that its bottom would be at the halfway point/line between the top of the eyes and the bottom of the chin. Please note that the actual bottom of the nose will not be draw. Show the nose by drawing a small vertical line for the bridge and giving a hint of one of the nostrils (slightly above the placement line).
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If you are drawing the side view of the nose you will want to draw the bottom of the nose and the mouth at the same time as they basically transition into one another.
Finally position the mouth by drawing a line between the bottom of the nose and the bottom of the chin. This line will give you the position of the bottom lip. Draw the top lip just slightly above this.
You can give a hint of the bottom lip with one short line. Draw the mouth itself with a light curve and a small break int the middle. Also please note that generally adult or older teenager male anime
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