How to Draw Manga Faces

Drawing is an interesting art where limitation is nothing. If you have a creative mind, you can give wings to a man and draw an angel. So when this art is so very creative, it no doubts requires a bit of your skill to draw. If you can draw your imagination in a piece of paper, you can get the desired result. But for this you may need to take some lessons, practice as much as you can and then reach your target. Though drawings differ from genre to genre and style to style depending on a person’s way of expressing himself on the canvas, the basic features remain the same. Even though modern expressionist paintings are a way ahead in the world of drawings, simple cartoons have their own charm. Many popular comic strips have come ahead with such typical drawings that they have remained in the viewer’s mind now. One of such characters is Manga characters. They are very much human and unlike the Disney cartoon character. How to Draw Manga Faces1 How to Draw Manga Faces

Manga characters are very much popular in Japan. So it carries the typical style and drawing features of Japanese art. You can learn drawing Manga characters by following some simple steps. First of all, it really helps to take an image and start copying it rather than drawing from the imagination when you are new to drawing. Once you know the basic features and master drawing normal postures, you can then take up more difficult ones and draw straight from your imagination.

Steps to draw a Manga face:

First of all as it is a prerequisite to collect some drawing material before you set about drawing, you may like to make a visit to your local stores. Get yourself some rough drawing sheets, light and dark pencils, erasers, color sketches and optionally you need sharpeners and a pair of scissors.
Remember that the face is the most important part of a Manga character. It would really help if you can get various types of these faces before you start your drawing. You can distinguish the easy ones to the difficult ones and you can then start to draw it.
In expressions, the Manga faces have much similarity to the human faces. In other words they give realistic expressions.
To begin with, you can take up a simple face and then learn to draw expressions. For the purpose of this article, you can draw a smiling Manga face so that it is easy for you.
Look at the face you choose carefully and divide the major features into 4 different categories. The major features in a face are , eye, nose, mouth and the hair and ear.
The face is somewhat oval or circular in shape with the eyes taking the predominant focus.
To make the eyes, you can check out the various ways you can draw. The Manga faces have relatively bigger and more oval and round eyes than normal human beings. You can draw a similar looking eye. Complete the eye with the characteristic eyelids and eye brows. Remember that the girl Manga eyes would have longer eyelids and more shapely eyebrows.
The Manga nose is most of the time a simple curved line of two or three dots placed in the middle of the face. The nose is kept shorter and less focused.
Similarly the Manga mouth is smaller and is only focused when to show and expression. Otherwise it is not given much importance.
You can draw hair in an irregular fashion as often the Manga characters even the girl Manga faces do not have any specific style of drawing hair. You can just make sure that you try to cover the forehead and the head with stroke of your pencil to make the shape of hair.