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. Add the nose halfway between the horizontal line and the chin.

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