This is in contrast to the eyes of villains. Men on the hand are given smaller but well defined eyes. The shape of the eyes for women are drawn in a certain manner so that the emotions like happiness, sorrow, bewilderment among the other emotions that we feel are all portrayed. For women the eyes are shown as being large and given an attractive shading on the upper lid. This signifies the innocence of childhood. In order to achieve this you will see how the eyes of children are shown are being wide open. The main factor that is dealt with is how certain emotions like innocence is portrayed. There are also guidelines about which types of anime eyes villains and other non-human characters should have. These guidelines are ones that you can see being used for female, male and the eyes of children. While the shape of the eyes is somewhat similar to that of other cartoon characters, there are certain guidelines which do need to be followed.
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Capture the emotions in your drawings with this simple and easy to follow how to draw anime eyes tutorial.īy looking at the different types of anime eyes which can be found in anime shows you will be able to further understand how these character’s eyes are used to make you see their world better. They really show the character’s feelings. You may also want to check out How to Draw Anime Eyes From Different Angles and How to Draw Anime and Manga Eyes to Show Personality tutorials.Anime eyes are wide and very expressive. You can mix and match elements from different styles add or remove details, gradients, reflections, etc… Try different things and see what works and what doesn’t. Please keep in mind that the above advice is just basic guidelines. You can even avoid drawing the bottom eyelashes. Most of the details of the eyes when drawing in this style can be omitted. Draw almost every part of the eyes vertically stretched (the reflection can be just about any shape). In this style draw huge eyes in relation to the rest of the character. The most common example of these would be in video games (especially old and retro styled games). These have tiny bodies and huge heads with giant eyes that can cover most of the head.
The characters that are drawn in this style are often know as “chibi”. Drawing Highly Stylized or Chibi Anime & Manga Eyes Chibi anime eyes You can give just a hint of the eyelashes. In this style draw the eyes significantly larger than real eyes. Drawing Regular Anime & Manga Eyes Normal anime eyes This style portrays the eyes in a semi-realistic fashion.įor this style draw round irises/pupils and draw the eyes a lot closer in proportion to real eyes (though still larger). Drawing Semi-Realistic Anime & Manga Eyes Semi-realistic anime eyes You can also see this in other styles outside of anime and manga. This space can give a character a scared or crazy look.Īlternatively if you were to draw a round iris that is large enough not to cover this space then it would fill almost the entire eye and would again look quite odd.īy stretching the iris and pupil artists are able to draw large eyes and still make a character retain a normal eye expression. One good reason for this might be that if you draw large eyes and draw a round realistic iris/pupil you will end up with a lot of space between the top, bottom or both parts of the eye. You may notice that anime eyes are often drawn vertically stretched. Instead of drawing individual eye lashes anime eye lashes are often drawn as one whole shape or with just a hint of a few lashes (depending on the style). Drawing Anime & Manga EyesĪnime eyes tend to consist of minimal parts such as the top and bottom eye lashes, iris and pupil. Having to draw detailed realistic eyes every time would be far too time consuming.īig eyes are also easier to see in small drawings inside a manga which in turn makes it easier to convey a characters emotional state. One good guess as to why this is would be that artists have to draw many frames of animation or panels of a manga. Most anime and manga eyes are drawn in a fairly simplified manner where a lot of the details are omitted. Styles of Anime & Manga Eyes Different types of anime eyes You can also look at the How to Draw Anime Eyes and Eye Expressions tutorial on this site for some more detailed instructions. This tutorial focuses on some of the more common types of anime and manga eyes and looks at some potential reasons as to why they are drawn the way they are. Depending on the artist and the type of character that is portrayed there are almost countless variations. Anime eyes are one of the most definitive characteristics of the anime and manga drawing style.