How To Draw Manga Style Characters

Anime character archetype drawing examples.

How to draw manga style characters. Some artist may go shorter or taller depending on what style they like. Use straight lines for the arms torso and legs. Eyes always show emotion so consider this when you build your characters. As the name states this tutorial is all about character.

For most manga and anime characters noses are comprised of just a line or two and some shading. We re going to start drawing a character using a simple wireframe. In manga they are usually 6 heads tall. Drawing over the stick figure outline you made sketch a rough.

I ll teach you to draw an authentic manga style well. For this example we ll use a basic standing. Next draw the outline curvy. There s no heavy detail on nostrils or bridges or anything like that a simple vertical line that slightly bows out to one side is all you need.

It makes the face larger. To make the character shorter you do not draw it smaller you draw the head larger. If you want to make them look happy sad or evil this can be done by changing their eyes. The mouth is a little trickier since it s nearly as expressive as the eyes.

The bigger you make the eyes the more details you should add to them. Outline the general shapes of your character s body. Draw a stick figure outline of your character s body. Why is the head larger.

If you shade the eyelashes will make your manga drawing look a lot more professional. Using a wireframe figure you can get the main parts of the pose correct and in proportion before adding detail. Sketching an anime body 1. In real life an adult or teenager would be 7 heads tall.

It shows how you can take one anime or manga style face and tweak it s features and. How to draw manga characters 01. This tutorial explains how to draw female anime and manga style characters using eight popular anime character archetypes with three examples of each.