How to Draw an Anime Girl and Anime Girl Coloring Page
Below you’ll find an easy step-by-step tutorial for how to draw an Anime Girl and an Anime Girl Coloring Page. She has large eyes with a simplified body so even elementary students can try this drawing style out.
Anime Girl Drawing
What is Anime Drawing?
This tutorial was designed to help young artists learn how to draw an Anime girl. The style originated in Japan and, by definition, refers to Japanese animation, which are the cartoons you see on the television.
The eyes are often a defining factor of an anime styled drawing, so understanding the basics of drawing them is an excellent first step to take in mastering this popular style.
Anatomically speaking, anime styled characters are often a little elongated in comparison to human proportions, but are still based on realistic human anatomy. An anime style character’s head tends to be larger than a real humans head, and more rounded at the back. When drawing a full figure, a realistic character would tend to be around seven heads tall, as in they are seven times as tall as the size of their head. An anime style character tends to be around eight heads tall, with their legs covering about four and a half heads length. Also, the lower leg, below the knee, tends to be longer than the upper leg, whereas in realistic human anatomy, it is the other way round, or the two are roughly the same length.
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Anime Girl Coloring Page
Materials for a Anime Girl Drawing
- Drawing Paper. This is the good stuff you can buy in bulk for a good price.
- Pencils. I like how this brand always makes nice dark lines.
- Black Marker. A permanent marker will give you a dark black color.
- Crayons. The larger packs are nice for more color choices.
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Step by Step Directions for an Anime Girl Drawing
Time needed: 45 minutes
Anime Girl Drawing, Step by Step
- Draw the face and hair shape on top. Notice the head is extra large in proportion to the body.
- Add the side hair strands and the two buns on top.
- Add details to the hair and draw the eyes with three ovals for each.
- Add eye details, nose and mouth.
- Start the jacket below the head.
- Add the sleeves and shirt lines.
- Erase the gray lines. Draw the pants.
- Add the tennis shoes.
- Trace with a marker and color.