How to Draw Japanese Looking Cartoon Faces
- 1). Sketch a circle. When drawing a realistic face, you use an oval, but cartoon anime faces can be more squat.
- 2). Add guidelines by drawing a horizontal line, splitting the circle in half vertically and then a second horizontal line splitting the bottom half of the circle equally.
- 3). Use the top horizontal line as a position guide to draw anime eyes. Make the eyes much bigger than normal to match the Japanese cartoon style.
- 4). Draw a smiling mouth, using the bottom horizontal line as a position guide. For female characters, you can add full lips.
- 5). Put ears on both sides of the head. Ears should be placed where the top horizontal line intersects the original circle.
- 6). Erase your guide lines and add details such as hair and earrings.