How to draw anime in pencil: the correct proportions of the figure and face, the display of emotions

Anime is an important layer of cinematic culture. This is a special kind of animation with colorful drawing, which has its own characteristics. Many people dream of learning to draw the characters from these cartoons. Let's tell you how to learn to draw anime step by step.

Drawing anime characters

Here are instructions in a few steps on how to draw an anime character, or rather his head, step by step:

1. Draw the front axis for the turn of the head in three quarters. On line 13 we place the lips and nose. On line 11 we draw the eye orifices. On line 18 - the ear area.
2. Now draw a side view of the face or turn in profile. Between line 11 the eyes are drawn, on line 13 the mouth opening is drawn, above this line the nose is drawn, on line 18 the place for the ears is marked.
3. To depict a face in full-face, a circle is drawn. Let's draw the chin, mark lines 11 and 13. Also mark the place for the eye sockets. The distance between one eye and the other is approximately equal to the size of an eye.
4. The eyes, eyebrows, nose and mouth are drawn at the marking places.
5. There is a huge variety of options for the eyes of anime characters. In this case, women's eyes are different from men's. You need to choose a suitable option and draw from the sample.
6. Make the lines of the jaw smooth and natural.
7. Draw the ears. You can draw regular, demonic, dog, cat, and elf ears for the character.
8. Draw hair on top of the head. There are also an infinite number of options for hairstyles.
9. Go around the contour with a black pen. We paint the resulting character.

Using this versatile technique, you can draw anime characters for every taste and color.

Drawing anime eyes

First, let's draw the character whose eyes we will paint in detail. To do this, you can use the guide from our article, but you can go your own way and do your own sketch - in this case it is not very important.

1. Paint the pupils, the eyelashes and the darkened areas of the eyes with black felt-tip pen.
2. Create shadows on the eyes by adding dark blue felt-tip marker over the black areas inside the iris.
3. Paint the outer arc of the iris and the area around the pupil in blue. Leave white highlights that go beyond the border.
4. Paint the middle part of the iris in blue, leaving the highlights untouched.

We colored the anime girl's eyes blue and made them shiny. The same principle can be used to color the eyes in any other color.

For clarity, you can trace all the contours with a black felt-tip marker.

Emotions of anime characters

Anime characters have hypertrophied emotions.

Let's portray sadness on the face of anime characters. To do this, draw strongly curved upward eyebrows in the form of two inclined at an angle of 45 degrees. The upper eyelids repeat the line of the eyebrows, but have the upper edges lowered down.

To make the lower eyelids emphasize the mood, a small wavy line is drawn.

A half-open mouth is depicted as a small curved downward wishbone. All details of the drawing indicate that the girl is ready to cry.

Let's depict a strong unrestrained anger. The eyes remain as dilated as during grief, but the eyebrows already curve downwards. Two vertical lines are drawn, skin folds. The mouth is open to cry out. The character looks like he is out of his mind with anger.

Let's depict sadness, a weaker emotion. The upper eyelids and eyebrows are drawn at a lower slant. The mouth is closed and is a small smooth line.

Let's make the character angry, but holding back his emotions. The eyes are drawn as a narrow slit, angled downward. The eyebrows are still strongly curved downwards at an acute angle, skin folds are highlighted. The mouth is drawn as two connected arches.

Let's draw an enthusiastic character on top of happiness. The lower eyelid is drawn in a straight line ascending to the center, the upper eyelid and eyebrow are curved at an angle of 60 degrees. An open smile is depicted as a triangle, or with an arc. Add big highlights for more expressiveness.

To draw a character in a state of shock or strong fear, draw maximally dilated eyes with small dots in the middle. The lower eyelids are drawn with straight lines, the upper eyelids and eyebrows with slightly curved arcs. The mouth is depicted as a small circle.

Figure of a guy from the anime

Let's draw a male anime character from scratch. Let's depict the figure of a guy:

1. Drawing starts with a skeleton. Let's draw a vertical line spine. At the bottom we mark an oval pelvis, on top a rectangular chest. From the top corner of the rectangle lead segment, from which derive a segment of the same length. This is the hand of the character. Second hand mark the same way.
2. Face oval must give symmetry. To do this, draw two lines that intersect in the center. This is where the bridge of the nose will be located. Draw a volumetric neck in the form of a cylinder. Dorisovyvuyu torso lines, connecting the chest and pelvic bones, and make it volumetric. Shoulders are placed at an angle.
3. Shoulders, elbow joints, kneecaps and palms mark in the form of circles. Give hands and feet cylindrical shape.
4. Draw the main details of the head. Highlight the jaw and chin, add hair. Draw the character's eyes on the middle line. Mark the mouth and nose on the face with short lines.
5. Transfer the main lines of the clothes on the character's body. Draw the outline of the surface, collar, sleeves, fasteners. If the character is wearing tight pants, add pleats.
6. We make the contour of the face more clear. Draw all facial details in darker color.
7. Draw the muscles on the neck with two vertical oblique lines. Draw the collarbone with two horizontal lines with a notch in the middle. Work through the character's clothes on top of the torso, finishing her details and erasing old lines with the eraser.
8. Tracing the fingers on the palms. This is quite a complicated job, so it is worth reading a separate guide for this.
9. We add details to the man's pants. Draw pockets, clasp, convex folds and notches in the right places. Remove unnecessary lines.
10. Add shadows to the picture in the right places, filling in the necessary areas with shading. Adjust the intensity of the pencil and the density of the shading, creating more and less shaded areas.

Any photo or image can be used as the basis for the drawing. Drawing anime is easy if you know the basics of drawing techniques.

Drawing a Pokemon

Let's depict on a sheet of paper a magical animal Pikachu, a cartoon and comic book character:

1. Picture a mushroom-shaped figure with a thick leg and a slightly prominent hat. Add smoothness to the outline.
2. Draw two equal circles in the middle of the head. Create inside of the two glare. Fill in the eyes with dark.
3. Draw two bigger circles on the edges of the cheeks. Shading them with a weaker pressure on the pencil. The nose is drawn as an inverted tiny triangle. The mouth - in the form of two smooth ticks.
4. On both sides of the top of the head we depict elongated pointed ears with black tips, painted diagonally.
5. On the left side, draw a long tail in the form of an expanding zigzag with three sharp ends and one square one.
6. Draw crossed paws. On both sides of the body draw two slanting lines, slightly inclined to each other. Connect them with small cogs.

Drawing Pikachu ready. Creature in the drawing resembles a squirrel.

Drawing of a girl in anime style

Draw a girl with big eyes, puffy lips and a plait falling on her shoulders. Drawing an anime with a pencil:

1. First let's draw the head. Draw the vertical axis and cross it with two horizontal lines. Let's trace these lines with an oval, the lower part of which is narrower. On the right side we will outline the stripes with light stripes.
2. The neck lines come out of the head. The contour of the shoulders, the neck of the shirt, the arms coming out of the sleeves are outlined. Each arm is drawn in the form of two oblique segments going into the T-shirt. We will not draw the palms.
3. We depict the bangs in the form of elongated sharp cones, located scattered and close to each other. On the left side make a loose hair, drawing a few lines. Right depict the dangling braid. Above the scythe draw a simple bow.
4. Image on the face large eyes oval shape. Highlight the eyelash line by pressing down firmly on the pencil. Add glare to the pupils.
5. The nose is depicted as a simple point, the mouth is drawn with a small line.
6. We create a pattern on the clothes, we draw the collar, we add a big bow with pleats on the collar, we put strokes on the hair to indicate the strands.
7. We paint the picture with a simple pencil, changing the saturation of color and creating light and shadow with different pressure on the slate.

Pencil sketch anime girl can be considered ready.

The following step-by-step instructions should help you learn how to draw characters from Japanese animation. Following these guides, any person, far from the creative field, will be able to draw anime.

Pictures of anime drawings in pencil