How To Draw Your Own Anime Character

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How To Make Your Own Animê Character

This article was co-authored by Renée Plevy and by staff writer, Kyle Hall. 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 is a popular animation and drawing style that originated in Japan. Drawing anime characters can seem overwhelming, especially when you’re looking at your favorite anime that was drawn by professionals. Fortunately, anyone can learn how to draw anime characters, and the process is fairly simple if you break it down into small steps.

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Modern anime, or Japanese animation, originated in the 1950s and ‘60s, and has since become popular all over the world. There are many different anime styles. However, when most people think of anime, they picture characters drawn with youthful features and big eyes. To draw an anime head and face in this style, start by sketching an oval shape that’s widest on the top and narrower at the bottom. Divide the face into quarters by drawing one vertical line down the middle and one horizontal line halfway between the top of the face and the chin. Next, sketch in the eyes just below the horizontal line. Make the eyes big enough so that they take up about ¼ of the height of the face. Draw a thick, curved line for the upper lashes, then draw in a semicircle under the lash line to represent the iris. Add a pupil and shade in the iris around it, but leave a white space to represent light reflecting off the eye. Then, add a thinner line under the iris for the lower lash line. Draw a pair of eyebrows just above the horizontal guideline. For female characters, make the brows fairly thin, but make them heavier if you’re drawing a male character. Next, add a new horizontal guideline about halfway between the first one and the bottom of the face. Draw a small vertical curve right where the new horizontal guide crosses the vertical one to represent the character’s nose. Noses on anime characters are usually very small, but you can experiment with making the nose bigger or giving it a more distinct shape if you like. Another popular technique is to draw a small triangle-shaped shadow on one side of the nose to give it a more three-dimensional look. Now, add a third horizontal line halfway between the nose and the chin, and draw the mouth on that line. The mouth can just be a simple horizontal line. Curve it either up or down, depending on what kind of expression you want your character to have. Finish up by drawing in the character’s hair. Keep it simple, and don’t worry about making individual strands. Instead, draw the hair in sections, and add a few spikes at the end to suggest strands. When you’re done, erase the guidelines. If you want to draw a full figure with a body, start by creating a stick figure in the general pose you want, then sketch in the basic shapes of the head, torso, and limbs. Anime characters tend to have more childlike proportions than real adults, so aim to make your character about 5 to 7 heads tall instead of a more realistic 7 to 8. Once you’ve drawn in the guidelines and basic shapes, connect them together with a seamless outline, and fill in details like your character’s clothes. When you’re done, erase the guidelines. To learn how to draw your anime character's body, scroll down!Learning how to draw an anime character is very easy, you just need to read and repeat the steps from this drawing lesson created by the team of . In one of the previous guides, the team of has already shown how to draw anime, and in this instruction we want to show how to draw an anime character from a slightly different angle. This lesson will also be a kind of basic guide with the help of which our readers will be able to learn to draw a wide variety of anime persons. Using this simple instruction you can also draw an anime version of yourself or your friends. So, to start creating you will need such classic things as paper, pencil, preferably automatic since it is easier to work with it, and an eraser.

In order to properly draw an anime person we must draw his skeleton and begin, of course, from the head. Next, using the most simple, light and almost transparency line depict the spine. On the spine sketch the chest and pelvis. The arms we also sketch with light lines. We did all these operations in order not to get confused in the proportions in the future and that our anime character would be beautiful and proportional.

Now we need to make our anime person drawing more voluminous, for this we will have to work with simple geometric shapes. For us it is very important that the face of the anime person was symmetrical and there were no mistakes in it. For these purposes, we will draw two lines intersecting in the center of the face in the place where the nose bridge will be located. To draw the neck we use a simple cylinder and to draw a torso we use a smooth geometric shape resembling a large cylinder.

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Now we need to add volume to the limbs of our anime character. For drawing arms and legs, we use elongated cylindrical shapes. And for drawing the shoulders, elbow and knee joints, we use circles and ovals. A small life hack to check the proportionality of the sketch. You can look at it through the mirror and it will show you all the errors in the ratio of details.

The head of anime characters is one of the most difficult. And in order to properly draw the anime head, first of all we need to add the most basic details and for this we will be guided by the intersecting lines that we drew in the second step. Gently sketch the location of your character’s eyes, mark nose with a short line and the mouth with another one. In the same step, you need to outline the contours of the jaw and hair.

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Now we start indicating lines of clothing, it is actually very easy. If you draw clothes from a photo or from imagination, then try to transfer all the lines on paper as the artists of did in the example below. To start adding details some artists use a new sheet to put it on top of an old sheet with the sketch in order not to use an eraser and immediately get rid of them. Anime characters often wear slim fit pants, so most of the folds will be located in the area of groin, knees and at the very bottom of the pants.

How To Make Your Own Animê Character

Circle the face details with dark and clear lines, add the necessary details if you missed them earlier. The jaw of an anime person can be narrowed like ours, round or more angular. Now circle the hair with the same dark lines. The more lines the hair will look more realistic. Of course, there are an infinite amount of types of people in this world, and their faces will also be very different, but the general principles of drawing remain unchanged.

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