anime eye drawing simple

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One of the most recognizable features of anime is the eyes. They’re big, they’re expressive, and they’re often exaggerated to show emotion. Anime eyes are only made up of a few basic shapes and they don’t have a lot of detail, so they’re actually pretty simple to draw. First, decide whether you want to draw female or male anime eyes since they’re slightly different. Then, draw the lash lines, iris, and pupil, shade in your drawing, and you’re done!

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To draw simple anime eyes for a female character, start by drawing a small, downward curved line for the upper lash line. Next, add a curved tail at the outer corner of the eye, bring the line down slightly, and back toward the other end of the line so the upper lash line is C-shaped. For the lower lash line, draw a short, upward curving line centered under the first lash line. Then, sketch an oval between the lash lines so the top and bottom of the oval are hidden. Draw a small circle near the top of the oval, off to one side, and add a smaller circle near the bottom of the oval on the opposite side. To create the pupil, draw a much smaller oval at the center of the first oval and fill it in. Finally, add upward curving eyelashes to the upper lash line. For more tips, including how to add shading, read on!Ever since discovering anime, I have been fascinated by this Japanese art genre. Their characters are adorable no matter if they’re good guys or not. One of the main characteristics is the unusually large eyes they have. I spent a while perfecting my technique for drawing them and I’d like to share it here. With just a few simple steps, you can capture the charm of the anime eyes and start creating your own unique characters.

For this mini-tutorial, I’ve used colored pencils and a white gel pen. Colored pencils offer handling and vibrancy to cause your eyes to really stand out. The white gel pen is the ideal tool for adding bright highlights that bring the eyes to life!

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Outline the outside of the eyes, the eyelid, and the iris in perspective. That means the eye closer to you should be larger than the eye that’s farther away, such as when your face is turned slightly. Either start drawing with a pencil then outline it using Black A012, or only use Black A012.

Use Dark Purple A088 to reinforce the pupil and to create a gradient on the iris. It will be brighter at the top turning dimmer on the bottom. When I make a gradient, I put more pressure on the pencil as I go from light to dark, with the most pressure where I want it the darkest.

Put more pressure closer to the iris’ outer contour. Using black, I shade with less pressure the area where there will be a shadow across the iris, which is underneath the eyelids. I press the hardest when coloring in the pupil. Next, I use an eraser to add some highlights at the bottom of the iris. With Gray A047, color in the eyeball’s upper section to make a shadow over the white of the eye. This creates volume and makes the eye appear rounder.

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Use Pink A083 at the very bottom of the iris to make it look more alive. Add the highlights with the white gel pen.

That’s it! Pretty easy, right? You can use this as a sample to practice on as you begin your journey creating your own amazing characters. What’s your favorite anime character? Do you prefer the happy-go-lucky types or the defiant, anti-heroes? How do you draw their eyes to convey the emotions that give them a unique personality?

I think focusing on the eyes is the best way to start building the personality of my characters. Once I have the eyes in place, I can adjust the head and body to complement them. Sometimes, the eyes’ color or shape helps me determine whether they’re going to be a good guy or a bad one. The most important thing is to let your imagination run wild and create a population that’s unique to your world. So how to draw anime (or manga) eyes? This is one of those tasks that appears easy from afar, but as you sit down to begin the actual drawing, especially if you are a beginner, it becomes apparent that there is more to drawing the anime eye than meets the eye (pun intended).

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I set out to break down the drawing of anime eyes and to come up with a strategy that I will share with you in this tutorial.

Keep in mind that manga and anime have a strong range of art styles, from very cartoon-like to quite realistic artwork. The lessons and techniques you will learn in this article can be applied to any variety of stylization of the human eye.

I decided to redraw many anime and manga eyes and have found a set of commonalities that if properly deployed into your art will make any eyes you draw look anime!

Anime Eye Drawing Tutorial

A quick note, before going further, I will use the term anime to mean both anime and manga for simplicity. Although anime usually refers to animated, and manga usually refers to drawn (printed) art, the general style and approach to drawing is the same.

You can also click here to skip to the step-by-step at the bottom of the guide. So go ahead and click that link, no, I won’t be upset if you do skip to the end. However, in this tutorial, content that appears before the step-by-step is more important to take away than anything else.

Note that in my experience, Anime drawing takes just as much skill and practice as any other drawing. If anything, the simplification and stylization of the subject matter makes drawing decisions more complex. If you need help improving your overall drawings skills step-by-step, head over to theAcademywhere I teach theLearn to Draw in18 Steps course.

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1 . Basic Eye Anatomy to Draw Anime Eyes Below is an image that will serve as a quick cheat-sheet for eye anatomy. We are drawing anime eyes, not conducting eye surgery, so don’t worry about the optic nerve or musculus ciliaris or other obscure ( 🙂 ) parts of the human eye. Below is everything we need to know for this tutorial.

Before discussing how to draw anime eyes, we need to understand the very basic anatomy terms when dealing with the human eye.

You only need to know eight (8) anatomy terms of the eye, most, if not all, of which you probably already know. This knowledge in this case is required mainly for purposes of placement and understanding the rest of the article.