This in depth tutorial explains how to draw a beautiful anime girl in 15 steps. In particular it looks at drawing the face of such a character from the front view.
As the title states the focus of this tutorial is on drawing a beautiful female anime character. In anime and manga these often have roles such as the “pretty girl” at school and may not necessarily be the protagonist. However drawing an anime girl to look beautiful is actually a bit of a challenge as most of them are drawn to be fairly cute by default. To help this tutorial gives a through guide on how to draw and position the head and facial features for a “pretty girl” character archetype.
Please note that if you’ve seen other similar tutorials here on there may be a few overlapping or similar information. However this particular character does have slightly different proportions so read carefully.
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Also note that while the proportions in this tutorial can help achieve the “beautiful girl” look, this is just one example and there are many more ways to draw such a character.
Overall the tutorial combines good drawing practices that can apply to art in general with tips on getting a particular anime/manga style look.
Star by drawing a vertical line through the middle of your drawing area. In this case it will be tall enough to accommodate the height of the head, neck, and the top part of the shoulders.
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The purpose of this line is to act as a guide that helps make sure that both halves of the head/neck/shoulders are of relatively even width. Later it can also help with spacing and positioning the facial features.
From the lower half of the circle project two lines downwards and angled towards the center line. These should then transition into curves and then go on an even sharper angles to finally join at the curve of the chin.
Make the neck fairly thin in relation to the head and fairly long. It should eventually transitioning into the shoulder muscles which should then transition into the shoulders.
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To position the eyes you can horizontally divide the head in two as shown with the example above. For the “beautiful girl” character you can then place the eyes slightly below this halfway point. the large forehead will add to the “cuteness”.
When spacing the eyes horizontally you will want to leave about enough room between them that you can fit in another eye.
At this stage you can simply outline the basic shape of the eyes without drawing all of the smaller details such as the eyelashes.
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Fairly high up above the eyes draw the eyelashes with thicker and slightly raised inner ends. This will help give the character a certain personality.
The nose will be slightly above the halfway point between the horizontal line for the middle of the head and the bottom of the chin.
Draw the nose itself close to a tiny oval in shape with the side closer to the center of the face slightly flatter.
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Place the mouth where it’s bottom lip (not actually drawn) would be about halfway between the bottom of the nose and the bottom of the chin.
Make the mouth fairly small with a very slight downwards curve. It’s very important not to draw too much of a curve or the character can get an unhappy looking expression.
Position the ears with their tops slightly below the top of the eyes and their bottoms slightly below the bottom of the nose. For this particular character the ears will be drawn slightly smaller and slightly lower down than is recommended for other character types here on .
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In this case most of the ears will be covered by the hair so there is not much need for drawing their inner details.
When drawing the hair you can think of it as being split into the sides, front and back/top sections. For a more detailed explanation of this as well as examples of other hair styles see:
Begin by drawing the “sides” part of the hair. In this case these will be two fairly long “clumps” that begin from around the top of the head and end with a pair of splits slightly below the shoulders.
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Draw the back/top section also split down the middle. The hair should first stick slightly farther up from the head towards it’s very top, then get a little closer towards it near the upper end of the sides of the head. Finally it should again curve away from the head towards the middle/bottom of the head.
In case you are wondering why you needed to fully draw out the head and ears and not just start with the hair there are several reasons for this. One is that seeing the exact size of the head makes it easier to place the facial features (as was shown in the previous steps). Another is that drawing in such a way helps to avoid many potential mistakes.
After you finish drawing the outlines of the hair and placing all of the facial features you can then draw all of the small details.
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While the eyes in that example are slightly different all of the drawing steps can be applied to the example in this tutorial.
You can see a basic step by step drawing of the details of the eyes above. Also please note that the irises are shaded grey just to make the highlights in the final drawing a bit easier to see. If you are going to be coloring the eyes you may wish to make them a different color.
Finally you can also add a little beauty mark/mole just slightly below one of the eyes (or other places). This will again help emphasize that the girl is beautiful as some famous models have these.
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Before you begin coloring the character it’s important to note that if doing so on paper you may want to leave some white spots for the highlights in the hair (see next step). If coloring digitally it’s easier to add the highlights in at the end.
For the actual color selection you can go with many potential options. In this case we will give her fairly light blonde hair and complimentary colored blue eyes.
For some very basic shading you can add shadows in the most common places. In this case they will be as follows:
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As mentioned earlier you can also add some hair highlights as sort of white zigzag lines across the hair. As suggested earlier you can simply leave this area white and then color around it. Alternatively you can use a white correction pen to add them in over top or do it digitally.
As mentioned at the start of the tutorial, female anime characters tend to be cute by default so it can be hard to draw one that is supposed to be beautiful. However using the proportions and facial feature placement in this tutorial can help create such a character.
The large forehead adds to the “cuteness” while the big but slightly narrower (than common in anime) eyes give her a bit of a more mature face. The raised eyebrows with the downwards curved mouth gives just a tiny bit of “condescending” look (not necessarily negative), sort of like a queen or someone of the upper class. At the same time it’s still a fairly relaxed and natural looking expression.A beginner-friendly guide to learning how to draw a great-looking Anime Girl Body with easy, step by step drawing instructions and video tutorial. Great for beginner artists!
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When you look at an anime character, how can you tell their gender? What about their age? We derive a lot of this information from this body proportions drawing.
Whereas male (male anatomy drawing) and juvenile anime (anime boy full body drawing) characters often have an inverted triangle shape (wider at the shoulders than at the hip), female characters are shaped differently.
The widest point of the girl's body base is the hips. The chest is the second-widest, and the waist is narrow. The female body is generally shorter in height than her male counterparts, but taller than any children.
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There are exceptions to this anime body template, however. Some characters presented as "sexy" might have exaggerated, unrealistic proportions. (Check out this Sexy Anime Drawing)
There is a lot to consider when drawing an anime girl full-body, but don't worry! We're here to help you improve skills with this easy, step-by-step female anime base for beginners.
1. Begin the anime girl outline by creating a grid. Draw two vertical lines and seven horizontal lines. The lines should be spaced so that they create six complete squares and six incomplete squares of equal sizes.
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2. Begin to sketch the basic shapes of the girl body within the grid. In the first row, center a circle over the vertical line to form the head. It should take up about 3/4 of the space between the horizontal lines.
In the next row, draw two more horizontal lines equally spaced between the original lines. In the next row, draw horizontal lines at the halfway and 1/4 points. Then, draw a rounded teardrop
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