This step by step tutorial explains the specifics of drawing female anime and manga style eyes and provides detailed drawing examples for each step.
This tutorial focuses on drawing female anime eyes but there are many other eye drawing tutorials here on as well. If you’ve already looked at those please be aware that there may be some overlapping information.
Anime eyes are almost always drawn bigger and wider than real eyes. This is especially so for female characters who often have larger and wider eyes than their male counterparts.
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One thing that really sets female anime eyes apart from male are more prominent eyelashes (longer, thicker, and more of them). This is not always the case but it does tend to be so.
Be sure to make light lines for the line drawing part of the tutorial (if drawing on paper) as you will need to do some erasing through the different steps. You can go over your drawing with a more solid line once you are done.
Draw the iris vertically stretched (compared to a real eye). Basically an oval with the top and bottom hidden by the eyelids.
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Make a line towards the upper half of the eye that will indicate the darker area partially created by the shadow and the eyelashes reflecting in the eyes.
You can erase the line overlapping the pupil in the next step. The reason for drawing it all the way though like that is to make sure that both sides match up and that you have a nice and smooth curve.
Draw the main reflection area from the main light source such as an indoor light bulb, a fire, or the sun. You can erase the area of the pupil and shadow that is overlapped by the reflection.
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The shape and color of the reflection can depend on the shape and color of the light source. Usually in anime you can simply leave the reflection white and give it a very generalized shape like a circle or an oval.
This reflection will usually come from the light of the main light source bouncing off of a surface and will be smaller than the primary reflection.
It should be noted that you could stop at step seven of this tutorial and have a perfectly normal anime eye but since the tutorial focuses on female eyes we will add some eyelashes.
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The first place you want to add the eyelashes to is the outer corners of the eye. Generally eyelashes (real eyelashes) sort of fan out around the eyelids so you can draw anime eyelashes in a similar way.
There is no need to add any in the middle as these usually tend to point forward and therefore visually sort of just merge into one shape.
Finally add some tiny eyelashes at the outer and inner bottom corners of the eye to have a finished drawing of a female anime eye.
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If you are drawing both eyes at once draw out each step for each eye before moving on to the next step.
Another thing to note is that the light reflections will not be mirrored and will be in the same positions in both eyes.
Please note that real eyes are usually positioned directly on this line but in anime eyes tend to be drawn lower down on the head. Especially so for younger female characters.
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Though anime eyes are not that difficult to draw they do have a lot of variations based on different states, emotions and even personalities. For more on drawing all of these see the following tutorials:Anime eyes are one of the most definitive characteristics of the anime and manga drawing style. Depending on the artist and the type of character that is portrayed there are almost countless variations.
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.
You can also look at the How to Draw Anime Eyes and Eye Expressions tutorial on this site for some more detailed instructions.
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One good guess as to why this is would be that artists have to draw many frames of animation or panels of a manga. Having to draw detailed realistic eyes every time would be far too time consuming.
Big eyes are also easier to see in small drawings inside a manga which in turn makes it easier to convey a characters emotional state.
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).
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You may notice that anime eyes are often drawn vertically stretched. 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. This space can give a character a scared or crazy look.
Alternatively 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.
By stretching the iris and pupil artists are able to draw large eyes and still make a character retain a normal eye expression. You can also see this in other styles outside of anime and manga.
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The characters that are drawn in this style are often know as “chibi”. These have tiny bodies and huge heads with giant eyes that can cover most of the head. The most common example of these would be in video games (especially old and retro styled games).
In this style draw huge eyes in relation to the rest of the character. Draw almost every part of the eyes vertically stretched (the reflection can be just about any shape). Most of the details of the eyes when drawing in this style can be omitted. You can even avoid drawing the bottom eyelashes.
Please keep in mind that the above advice is just basic guidelines. 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.
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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.
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