【Eng dub】Japanese Anime & Manga Character Illustration Tips

Draw the four main parts of the face—contours, nose, mouth, and eyebrows—while depicting the less prominent Japanese facial features. Draw a female character's face from side profile to front view.

Explore how to contour the nose, mouth, and eyebrows to achieve a soft, youthful anime look, emphasizing a subtle jaw, puffed cheeks, slender neck, and balanced ears.

Discover how to draw the nose in anime and manga, from a front dot to a side profile with the bridge, shadows, and nostrils for a cute look.

Learn to draw a small, cute mouth for female characters, avoiding wide openings and chin movement, with subtle shading, minimal teeth, and a hint of tongue.

Explore how eyebrow placement and shape express personality and gentleness in anime characters, with eyebrows above the eyes 60 percent down from the top of the head, and varied thickness.

Explore how to elevate anime and manga character illustrations through expressions and angles, with future videos promising deeper detail and practical demonstrations as a valuable artistic resource.

Master the eyes, the crucial part of anime character design in Japanese art, toward becoming a professional illustrator. Explore distinct features and parts of anime eyes with a reference illustration.

Learn the basic eye components—inner and outer corners, upper eyelid, crease, hollows, eyelashes, and pupils in various shapes—plus the Japanese anime style of separating eyelids to expand expression.

Compare flat and three-dimensional eye styles in Japanese illustration, emphasizing eyelid crease, double eyelid visibility, hollows, upper line, lower eyelid length, and thin lashes for cute, subdued makeup.

Adjust the black-to-white ratio and pupil size to convey cute versus energetic vibes, and explore diverse pupil shapes, highlights, and reflections to create expressive anime eyes.

Explore how trends, variations, and personal tastes shape drawing the eyes for authentic Japanese anime characters, using the basic knowledge from this lesson to level up your illustration.

Explore how hair design in anime character creation conveys personality, background, and world context, and learn two methods for drawing hair that influence overall character design.

Explore the five hair parts—bangs, side hair, top, back, and accessories—and how bangs, ear visibility, and volume shape anime character personality.

Learn to depict hair bundles with jagged edges to add depth. Vary strand thickness and wave-like starts and ends to create a coherent anime character design.

Explore two anime hair styles: dynamic silhouettes with voluminous bangs for personality, and soft three-dimensional, ribbon-like hair with twists and highlights for depth and movement.

Explore how hairstyle choices express a character's personality in anime and manga, try many styles to create unique, awesome characters, and study demonstrated hairstyles as a valuable reference.