Thursday, May 13, 2010
Draw the head : front view
Step 1
Draw a circle. Now draw a vertical line at the center of the circle. Make horizontal dashes at the center of the circle. A bit below the dashed lines, draw another horizontal line.
Step 2
At the bottom half of the circle, draw the jaw-line of your character that meets at the center vertical line. It should basically look like a big “V” in the end. Draw two vertical lines at the base of the jaw to make the neck.
Step 3
Add the eyes at the horizontal line with eyebrows going up to the dashed horizontal line. Make your nose along the vertical line and end with the mouth just below it. Draw the ears as high as the dashed line and about as low as the nose.
Draw eye : Basic
The eyes are said to be the windows to the soul. To draw the eye, you have to understand a few basics about it.
Let’s start with the front view of the eye. The first example to the left shows the average eye in real life. It’s almond-shaped, has circular pupils, lashes above and below, and lines around the eye defining the eyeball.
To draw eyelashes, draw it outwards away from the eye and eyelid. Note that it’s a bit curved.
Also, eyelashes are generally taller at the center of the eye and smaller as it goes to the ends of the eye as shown above right. (T = tall, S = small)
The side view of the eye is shown above. Notice the pupil is more elliptical or ovular than it is circular. The basic shape of the eye now looks triangular rather than almond-shaped.
The eyelashes is drawn a bit differently as well. It still curves away from the eye but the upper lashes curve upwards and the lower eye lashes move downwards. Again, the length of the lashes change from tall to short as indicated by T and S.
Most people draw eyes by drawing shapes. To make it simpler, I found that there are four basic ways of drawing eyes.
1. The first type of eye is the slit. Characters drawn with these eyes are usually older people. To draw this type eye, its’ basically a single line drawn a bit upwards.
2. The second type of eye is the almond eye. These type of eyes go to a point at each end. There are two examples here to clarify that the points in the end do not have to meet and can look different even though they’re in the same category.
3. The third type is the pointed end and open center. The center refers to the area of the eye closest to the center of the face. In this case, the lines of the upper and lower lid are wide apart at the center and close together at the end.
4. The fourth type is the open end and pointed center. This is the opposite of the third type. Wide at the ends and pointed near the center.
Below are various eyes with different shapes for your reference.
Source : www.mangatutorials.com
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
How to Draw Anime Hair
First Step - A BIG Circle to Help Visualize Some BIG Hair
To begin, take a quick look at the initial images below. Taken from the "eyes" lesson from before - we're using the face of a male anime character. The details aren't necessary here. It's purpose is to simply mark off the face area, so you know where the hair can be drawn into place.Here's how it looks...
To the board...
Second Step - How to Draw Anime Hair, Step by Step Beginning with the bangs, go ahead and bring each strand of hair into view, one piece at a time. As you do so, don't be afraid to try out a unique idea or two of your own. You can make the strands thicker for example, to look like Naruto.
In short, different variations yield different looks. Here are the steps...
And other than this - you're done! :-)
source : www.how-to-draw-cartoons-online.com
How to draw a bird
First Step - A Simple Bird Framework
Two circles - similar to drawing the duck and swan from before - are all it takes to come up with a simple - easy to work with - structure from which to draw this animal. The grey swooping line that you see below, indicates the run of the neck to the tail feathers. Branching off of this, will also be the wing.Nice and simple...
And now - the drawing begins!
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