How to learn to draw manga and anime characters
June 9, 2009 by admin
Filed under Arts & Entertainment Jobs
This tutorial will help you to draw a basic anime character. Tools you will need for this tutorial include: Pencil, White Eraser, Paper, Scanner, an art program such as Photoshop (Gimp is a free alternative to photoshop and can be downloaded online for free).
I like to start with the head first. It should be like an upside down egg. More rounded at the top, and slightly pointed towards the bottom.
Sketch lightly at first. Next locate the middle of your egg shape.
Draw a cross hair going horizontally through the shape. You can arch it a little to your likeing. This is where the eyes will go. Many people think the nose is the middle of the face, this is not true. Our eyes are actually the middle of our face.
Next we will draw the eyes. I like to think of the top of the eye as a half C shape (the upper half obviously). Leave some space below the half C and draw a straight line below it for the bottom of the eye. In the middle of the eye draw a large round oval. It should be just brushing the half C and bottom line. This is the pupil. Within the pupil I like to add a smaller oval for the iris and then 2 round circles in either angle for the lights of the eyes. You can shade the smaller oval to make it pop out some more.
Next the nose. It’s like a small zig zag line, starting between the eyes, tilt towards one eye, away, and towards. It looks like a small lightning bolt. You can shade the lower half of the line to add some definition.
Last on the face comes the lips. Depending on the expression you are going for the lips will be different. For happy, draw an upside down triangle shape below the nose. Round the corners so that it’s not so sharp. add a small half arch inside the triangle about midway or three quarters of the way down. This is the tongue. For a more serious look you can simply draw a thin line for a mouth and add some shadeing beneath it to create the illusion of lips.
With the head and face done, I like to draw out my plans for the body. I start by drawing a stick figure. We can all draw stickmen so this should be easy. Extend one line from the head down. That will be the basic body. You can add the lines for the arms and legs now if you wish or wait until a little later.
The torso is next. On a female character, the torso is like an upside down triangle. It should be located in the top third or so of the body line. Make sure that it’s wide enough to match however large your head is. Next we’ll add a waist and some shoulders. On the torso,
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