Anime Face Proportions Guidelines
With all the guide lines in place you can safely finish your manga face.
Anime face proportions guidelines. Add the nose and eyes below the eyes in the middle of the face. 2 bottom of the nose goes to the vertical center line of the bottom half of the head. How to draw anime eyes.
This new line will indicate where the bottom of the nose should go. Many beginners choose anime manga as their first drawing style because it looks very simple and appealing. The blue lines indicate medians.
Red lines are in my opinion the most important guidelines along the medians. Here s a look at a face and head drawn from imagination using the loomis approach combined with a simpler approach which we discuss a little further down this page. These guidelines show the following rules of facial symmetry.
To draw a female face in anime or manga start by drawing a circle for the forehead and a straight line from the top of the circle to where the chin will be. 1 eyes are positioned at the vertical center line of the head. Anime eyes come in many shapes and sizes.
However if you want to draw a manga character from scratch you need to understand the proportions and structure of the body. To get the proportion right find the halfway point on the vertical guideline and draw a horizontal guideline across the width of the head. Draw the eye below the vertical halfway point of the head draw the nose roughly between that and the chin draw the bottom lip roughly between the chin and the nose with the mouth slightly above it.
Anime face proportions side view in the above example you can see the basic proportions for drawing an anime face. As you can see the guy in the photo me has some guidelines drawn in red. I rarely draw other guidelines than medians but after sketching the basic shape of the head i usually draw the ear s before other facial features.
Let s see how to draw eyes in manga style step by step. Halfway between the eye line and the chin draw another horizontal line. Measure your proportions each time or else your anime character won t look natural.
This is the eye line. All of the relationships and proportions are identified with the guidelines discussed. And if you want to draw anime bodies from imagination you even need to know human anatomy.
Now you know how to draw proportions of a manga face but you still need to learn about the details to draw it convincingly. Note it s position just next to the intersection of two medians. Next sketch the chin and cheeks making sure that the lines change direction but that the curves are subtle.
Erase the guidelines to clean up your drawing.
