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Hi, I'm Jay French, jayfrenchstudios.com, today I'm going to show you how to draw an
Anime style. Alright, drawing Anime is mostly about people and robots. What we're going
to do with people? In this case, we'll draw a little guy. Anime heads tend to be, the
Anime style tends to be a little more exaggerated especially in making the heads larger on young
characters and the head smaller on older characters. So we're going to do a young kid here and
maybe I'll real quick show proportions on an adult. And this will show a more prominent
cheekbones and prominent brows ridges. In a male, it's going to be a little sharper
like this. The chin can be as sharp as you like, there's a variation of styles in Anime.
You almost want your eyes, or your hair and eyes, 'cause that is very common Anime style.
You also have pretty wild hair, that's common for Anime, so we're going to keep that up.
Noses are very minimal, usually just pretty much a shadow of what is under the nose, the
shadow under the nose. You don't actually see any of the lines of the nose itself. Mouths
are very small and simple; your little shadow of that lower lip, that's all about you're
going to see that. Now, one of the odd things about Anime is that, you will get overlap
from the bangs that are very commonly, as I said, in the face and they'll, or it get
overlap between that, in the eyes and eyebrows. Now the sidelines on the eyes are probably
not going to be actual incline, you probably just want to do another division between the,
if you're doing this in color, between the flash tone and the widesly eyes, just do the
top and bottom lines as black lines. Irises are very large in Anime, you get a large highlight
line in the pupil, I guess, that's part of what just Anime sets character. Eyebrows are
usually fairly thin in male characters or sometimes a little thicker, can break the
bounce, it's more stylished versions especially. Break the bounce of the, of the face edge.
And that's your basic young character in Anime. The big difference from doing a, an older
character or a more muscular character; I'm just going to draw some quick shoulders here
to give you an idea, is that they will show a smaller head, it's one of the few times,
as in heroic characters or in villains and you'll often see a very pointed chin, sometimes
even then you'll actually going to broad the mouth than you'll actually see. It's still
very minimal in the nose and even though the eyes will be very wide, they might be very
narrow horizontally and probably a little box here. You may still have big irises and
you can still have some crazy hair. So now we know what this kid's going to look like
grown up. And there's a couple of subjects in Anime style.