For example, for your character’s shirt, draw the sleeves over their arms and the body of the shirt over their torso. Draw the clothes over the outline of your character’s body. Also, connect the shape you drew for the hips to the torso and the upper legs.Īdd your anime character’s clothes. Round out the corners of the torso for the shoulders, and draw 2 lines curving up away from the center of the torso for the neck. For the upper body, you’d do the same with the arms and torso.

Make the outline smooth (without any gaps) so the legs look realistic.

To connect and refine the legs, draw around the outer edges of each shape that makes up the legs (the ovals for the upper and lower legs, the circles for the knees, and the shapes you drew for the feet) so you have one seamless outline of each leg.

When you’re finished, you’ll have a full, detailed outline of your character’s body around the more abstract outlines you drew before. At this point, start refining the different parts of the body so they look more realistic, like your character’s hands, shoulders, hips, and neck. Trace around the outer edges of your character’s body so you have one seamless outline. Alternatively, you could draw a chin-length bob that’s divided into several thick sections.Ĭonnect and refine the general shapes you drew. Or, you could draw a hairstyle without any bangs and draw a few lines running from their hairline to the back of their head so it looks like their hair is combed back.

For a shorter hairstyle, you could draw 3 or 4 distinct sections of hair swooping to the side over your character’s forehead.

Alternatively, you could give your character bangs by drawing 3 or 4 distinct sections of hair coming down over their forehead. Or, you could draw their hair pulled up with a round bun at the top.

If your character has long hair, you could draw 2 pigtails, one at each side of the head, with spiked ends.

Instead, draw big sections of hair, like 4 or 5 spikes at the ends. Whichever hairstyle you choose, avoid drawing individual strands of hair. You can draw a short, buzzed hairstyle, a medium-length style, or long, flowy hair. The hairstyle you choose for your character is up to you, but generally, anime hair features pointed ends and distinct sections. For certain styles of anime, like chibi, you don’t even need to draw a nose at all!ĭraw the hair on your character's head.Also, draw a triangle-shaped shadow on the side of the nose so it looks like the light is hitting your character from the side. If you want your character’s nose to be more noticeable, draw a short horizontal line under the vertical line to represent the bottom of your character’s nose. Masculine anime characters sometimes have noses that are more pronounced, but that’s not always the case.To see it better, make it darker than the vertical line, or erase the vertical line around the nose. The nose will overlap with the vertical line you drew.

Make the nose the smallest feature on your character’s face.Make the line longer if you want your character’s nose to be big. To draw your character’s nose, draw a short, simple vertical line along the center of the face at the halfway point between the horizontal line and the chin. Anime noses are subtle, and they’re usually only defined when you’re looking at a character from the side. This article has been viewed 1,507,638 times.Īdd the nose halfway between the horizontal line and the chin. There are 7 references cited in this article, which can be found at the bottom of the page. She also teaches at the Boca Raton Museum Art School - formerly at SVA in Manhattan. Renée has even painted a portrait of celebrity, Vanilla Ice. 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 is featured in over 68 shows and galleries including a one-woman museum show at the Paterson Museum. She has studied under internationally renowned portrait artists John Howard Sanden, David Leffel, Robert Beverly Hale, Clyde Smith, and Leonid Gervits. With over 50 years of experience, Renée specializes in painting realistically in oil and capturing the soul of the person. 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. This article was co-authored by Renée Plevy and by wikiHow staff writer, Kyle Hall.

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