The shape of the lower part of the face is as follows:
Beginner Guide to Drawing Anime & Manga
How to Draw an Anime Character Step 1: Draw the Head. Step 3: Draw Anime Mouth. Step 4: Add the Final Touches. Step 1: Outline the Face.
Add clothing to your anime drawing to give your character personality .
Though you may never have heard of a ninja skateboarder or a singing surfer, one of the best things about anime character design is that there are no rules! Feel free to combine different character types and styles to create a character that represents you and your interests.
Skillshare instructor Sensei’s course is a great masterclass in anime faces. If you’re learning how to draw anime for beginners, Sensei’s advice will help you understand the fundamentals of anime characters and draw them with ease.
Part of what makes anime so popular is that characters are known for having loud expressions and emotions. To help convey these sentiments through your anime character’s face, follow along as artist Enrique Plazola teaches you how to draw anime eyes in four different styles!
One of the best things about digitizing your anime drawings is that you have limitless options for posing and positioning your characters. Character designer and animator McCoy Buck shows you how to do exactly that using digitized vector points for reference.
Anime drawing and character design is unique in that it allows for open-ended creativity while still remaining within standard design principles, like proportions.
Take the guesswork out of drawing hands by breaking them down into simpler, more familiar shapes.
The outline is a fundamental part of the illustration and sometimes it can get frustrating, especially when you see that your sketch looks better than the final version. But your lines can have as much personality as your characters, so it is very useful to emphasize or highlight parts of the illustration, direct the viewer’s gaze ...
There are always rest points when drawing. These happen naturally when one line finishes and another begins. (A) Here is one continuous line. (B) And here is another where I have stopped one line and started another at the natural rest points. The difference is slight but it clearly looks better.
In general, drawing long lines in one continuous stroke is a detriment to the line, because your hand has a limited range with which it can make a fluid line, which shows more when you work with digital media .
In a new layer, I define the outline of the whole head of hair, starting from the forehead. From the root to the tips, from top to bottom, from one point to another – do it however you like! The important thing is that your line flows with how the hair moves.
It is good common practice to look at your work from another point of view to detect these kinds of errors as soon as possible. Flipping the canvas horizontally as you work is really helpful:
If you want more of a hand-drawn look, it’s best to use a pencil tool. But if you want it to be sharp like in anime, the G-Pen will help you achieve that effect.
Anime-style or Cel Shading coloring is a style that mimics how traditional anime was animated. It applied simple shading without blending to make it easier to animate. To enhance this kind of coloring style, you can use other tools like gradients or effects.
For the line art, let’s use a vector layer. Vector layers are different from raster layers. See this article for a good explanation about how they’re different: https://tips.clip-studio.com/en-us/articles/600 You can use whatever pen, pencil, or brush you like to do line art. This time I used the G-pen and Real Pencil.
All layers: will refer to all layers on the canvas.
In Clip Studio Paint, tools are organized by type. Each Tool has sub tool categories. The drawing tools are all in the same category in the sub tool palette.
Close Gap: if set to 0, if you try to fill in an area and there are gaps in the line art, the color will fill areas that aren’t enclosed. However, if you increase the value, it will become less sensitive to small gaps in the line art and won’t spill over as easily. Then again, if set too high, it won’t evenly fill small areas.
Instead of recoloring the whole background, you can make use of Correction Layers.