hi my name's ed and today i'm going to show you how to
draw a simple manga style face you can download this sheet if you like
but i'm going to show you now how to draw it for yourself okay let's
get going
okay i'm going to show you how to draw a simple manga style face
i'd start with a pencil because a lot of the lines that i'm going to
draw they're just to help you map out the features on the face and you
won't actually see these pencil lines in the finished
picture so just draw yourself a
just pressing lightly on the pencil just draw a
simple circle and at the bottom of the circle just draw
yourself a horizontal line
there we go and
draw yourself another one just underneath
and then one same sort of distance that cuts through the circle
looks a bit like a sunset i guess draw yourself a vertical line
splitting the circle in two so there's your basic guides for drawing
your manga style face so this point here
at the bottom of your circle is where your tip of the nose is going to
be so
just for now just draw a kind of simple nose there
and this line here is where your eyes are going to sit so
manga eyes are really big so draw yourself a
little crescent shape there and another one
and let that line let your drawing sit on that guideline
okay and do the top of the eye same sort of shape
again press really lightly on your pencil
you're going to go over this in pen so this is just
roughing it out so inside each of the eyes you're going to have a
really enormous pupil that's the sort of style that we're
going for so i'm drawing a rough circle see how my
circle touches well almost touches
those guidelines i did and another big circle there
okay now inside of these circles you're going to draw a
smaller circle
okay exactly the same on the other side
checking as you go along check that if something doesn't look right you're
gonna try and make it the same on either side
using that line these lines that you've done to help you
okay so when we're going to shade this eye we're
going to split it the top is going to be shaded
in and the bottom is going to be clear
in this part of this circle for eye we're gonna do a
little
circle there this is where the light hits the eye
and okay you're going to basically shade in
this whole top section this whole bit here
but you're not going to shade in this bit here so
just do it roughly for now lightly sorry for now
and you're gonna shade in this
this tiny little inside bit there okay so same on the other side
all the way across don't do this little
uh part where the light hits the eye and colour in that bit there okay starting to
look a bit mangery manga manga esque
um okay so the mouth is a kind of
on a line there okay so we're going to use
these guidelines to give us a shape of the face
so
start on one side you can start there or there it's up to you and you're going to
bring a line down
to this line here so this line is not the one that the circle sits on it's
the one underneath and you're going to bring a
line from the edge of the character's face down to
there let's do the same over here
and if the line comes in this is a jaw line
okay and now
you're going to join this line to this centre point
and this line to this centre point give it a
pointy chin
okay and around about there is where our character's mouth will be
okay so um let's give her some eyebrows
so i'm i'm sort of echoing that line at the top of the character's eye
so similar kind of curve there you can experiment with different
eyebrows if you point the eyebrows straight down like that you can have
more sort of an angry look if you bring it bring the eyebrow up to
sort of here much more sort of softer
less threatening kind of look i'll sort of aim for sort of halfway between the
two okay and uh
now with the hair
uh lots of sort of spiky hair the hair the
the top of the head is going to be above this original circle
you drew so kind of draw
what looks a bit like an sort of semi-circle that's
echoing that circle okay and let's start doing the sort of pointy
fringe which is a kind of classic manga style so
i'll start over here and i'll bring a swooshy bit of hair
down and then back up so you work your way across
so the hairline is kind of there
okay and let's fill out a few more pointy
strands of hair
coming over to here see i'm not pushing down particularly
hard on my pencil but when i feel i've got the line right
then i'm pushing down a bit harder there
let's bring some hair to the sides
okay a bit more hair over here
if you've got long hair or
you've got a photo of someone with long hair you could look at that to help you
look in the mirror see what your hair is doing you can draw yourself as a manga
character um
just going to bring the eyes in a bit so i'm noticing the eyes on my one are a
little bit close together okay and uh let's give her a neck so
if you find the shiny part of the eye and then bring your pencil down
give her a curved neck curved neck there
a bit of shading under here a little lip okay
and uh keep the hair coming down these parts of the hair
sit in front of this hair at the back of the back of her head
and uh give it some shading there make a neck stick out of it
okay so um
if you're now you're now confident that you've got your face sort of mapped out
you're going to uh use a pen you can use a thick pen i'm
going to use a slightly thinner pen for this and you're
going to go over the lines that you're uh most confident with the ones that
you've
pushed down harder with your pencil i'll put the fringe in first her hair
first because that's going to go in front of
some of the lines i've drawn before
okay
bring it round so i'll then go on to the shape of her face
okay and let's do the neck
the outline of her hair
and here this line here for example is the back of her hair so this this
front fringe this side part of her hair is in front of
the back of her hair so you don't finish that line off if that makes
sense same on the other side i've got a bit of ear showing there
bring these lines around so do sort of side and the fringe first
and a bit at the back there
okay so now you've got the hair in you can
draw the eyes in but don't draw you see i've got pencil here
i'm not going to ink that bit of pencil there because my hair is going
it's covering that up
so there you go
okay so her eyebrow you can draw it so it goes behind
the fringe okay i won't color that in yet i'll wait till
i've rubbed out all these lines and then i'll finish it off so i'm not
drawing that line because this hair comes in front
give the impression that her hair is popping forward okay
so follow that shading line the shape of her eye
okay and uh
let's do our nose there
just brought her nose up a little bit just to
correct it slightly
just give her a blank expression straight line but
use a mirror and look at your mouth so if you're wanting a character to look
angry pull an angry face and see what happens if
what happens to your mouth when you look in the mirror pulling an angry face and
then to emulate that in your drawing okay so
get my rubber and i'm going to rub all these guidelines out
um try not to push down too hard i don't want to smudge this
ink that i've only just put down but if I
hold my page so my when i'm rubbing it out the paper isn't
going to crinkle up
you can take a lot more time doing this you can
leave the pencil there if you want
okay just sort of brush that all over your bedroom floor
make a mess there we go and just to finish off the
eye we're gonna get a thicker pen we're gonna colour in that all important eye
if you see i'm colouring the edge first kind of gives me a bit of a
barrier so when i'm colouring in
bigger section i'm kind of bouncing into the edges
okay and
again i'm colouring the edge first
there you go uh nice simple manga face uh have a go yourself have fun with it