There is a big difference between how we draw anime, and how we draw other animated characters. What makes anime great is that it is highly unique. Anime style drawings do not mirror realistic artistic works, it defies the tradition of how individuals imagine and create art. Considering there is mainstream success for games and graphic novels in the anime style, this type of anime drawing is in demand for young readers everywhere! Due to the rise of anime style drawings in pop culture, we are going to show you how to draw anime characters with grace. The Drawing Desk app can also help us in the creation of anime drawings.
1. Identify Proportions of Anime Characters.
The peculiarity of drawing anime characters, is in the first place, in imagining the proportions and perspectives of anime character drawings as an artform. The facial features of anime character drawings are usually drawn as elongated, or shortened, compared to realistic artistic depictions of the human form. This is how you draw anime characters. Look through Proportion Drawings of Manga and Anime on the Drawing Desk app.
2. Analyze Emotions and Facial Expressions of Anime Drawings!
Using our anime drawings from the app, Drawing Desk, we can master the craft of developing facial expressions and facial characteristics, to make you into a professional anime artisan! With our app, you can start drawing different facial expressions on anime characters, often with wider and longer eyes than realistic depictions, and shorter pointier chins. This can be drawn using the Drawing Desk app, so please check out the course on Manga Facial Expressions
We can also see here, there is a confused facial expression on an anime character drawing. We can teach you to draw this anime face, with a widened and puzzled look, so that can make you draw like an illustrator for an anime graphic novel.
3. Find Mistakes in Your Anime Drawings.
After drawing the characters using the Drawing Desk app, make sure to improve and edit the anime drawings you make! You can do this by drawing up a silhouette or outline of your character, and details in the drawing will be emphasized by creating a shadow version of your character side by side with your sketch itself. It will illuminate the mistakes in the drawing. Likewise, drawing with shapes can also help spot mistakes in proportions and drawings can be made better if you use reference images to create detailed and accurate proportions alongside the overall figure of the character itself.
4. Know How Shapes Interact with Your Drawing Style for Anime.
Shapes such as rectangles play a tremendous role in the development of anime character drawings. To make such anime drawings, we need to visualize the shapes in our minds, and use the Drawing Desk app to search different proportions and movements of anime sketches.
5. Color is Important for the Anime Style.
You need to use the Drawing Desk app to understand how the composition of anime sketches can change. This is especially seen in the digital art course in the DrawingDesk app, related to anime character drawings.
6. Investigate Different Poses for Anime Characters!
In the app we can see the importance of anime movements, and actions. As we can see here there is a dynamic pose or the existence of motion lines, when the drawn anime character is performing an action. Check out Anime Movement & Action as a course on the Drawing Desk app.
7. Use Perspective to Adjust Anime Character Drawings.
In anime, we utilize perspective drawing for anime characters. As can be seen in the movements, the arms and legs of anime drawings are distant from each other. Using Drawing Desk, we can learn how to draw 3D shapes, and this can help inform our anime character drawings and the level of depth expected. Learn to Draw Basic 3D Shapes (This is a related course)
8. Learn from the Anime Drawing Experts!
We can learn and get expert drawing guidance from mimicking characters that have already been drawn in anime. We have several characters, such as the ones seen below. The Cute Chibi course, allows you to draw cute anime characters.
9. Develop a Muscle Memory for Drawing Anime Styles.
Learn the anime style. The best way to learn design styles is through practice drawings! So keep practicing! We suggest that you draw some anime characters using the Drawing Desk app. You could also choose a character more rich in detail such as the mecha characters. The mecha characters are transformer-esque anime character drawings, who are robotic in the way they look, and it would be fun to draw them! Draw them using the course, Mecha Characters on Drawing Desk.
There is a place for your own unique style, as it will develop across the many drawings you make. So get on board with Drawing Desk and have fun!
10. Download Drawing Desk.
With the Drawing Desk app, you can sketch anime characters with a quick and easy tutorial, which would show you step by step how to draw anime proportions and characters with the right amount of style! Drawing Desk is available for Apple and Android devices
