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Guide: How to Drawing Hair (incompleted)

The type and hair style is very diverse, there are short haired, long haired, straight, curly, and wavy. Remember, the hair consists four essential parts, ie bangs, side hair (pot), the top, and the back of the head. Hair is the most important points in a variety of characters. So, make more variations of the hair in order to create different characters.




Step 1
First of all, give a limit line on the forehead as the growth of hair pony, and outside the circle as the boundary line of the hairstyle. Note the direction of the hair growth. Sometimes there is a hair which against the direction of gravity (rising upward), or even rigid to the side.






Guide: How to Drawing Ears (incompleted)

Most Mangaka have their own style of drawing the ears, especially for those who use the free style. This is due to the ear that was rarely be the focus. And, sometimes there are some characters whose ears covered with hair or accessory. In the manga, the shape of the ear can be drawn not just like the real human ears, especially in the adventure-themed manga. This is because there are types of manga characters who has animal ears and elve ears.


 Step 1
Generally, the location of the ear starts from (almost) right in the middle position of the eye until the middle of nose. But, each mangaka has its own standard depending on the mangaka's drawing style. To draw the ears we can use the eyes guidelines.








Guide: How to Drawing Mouth (incompleted)

Nowadays, many Mangaka drawing the mouth using the "simple" techniques, ie just take a single pull of the line which ultimately makes the characters look "cute". But, there are Realist Mangakas who draw the mouth just like the real human mouth.






Step 1
Now let's draw the mouth (a bit far) under the nose. It can be drawn between the jaw line or a bit far below the jaw line. To make it looks more cool, add the shorter line under the lining of the mouth.







Guide: How to Drawing Nose (incompleted)

Just like how to draw the eyes, there are no limitation to draw the nose. You can draw it as you desired (as long as it can still look "normal").

Step 1
There is a simple way to draw the nose (cartoon) and there is also a bit complex way (realist). OK, now draw the nose under the eyes line, or it can also drawn between the eye (all depending on your taste).







Guide: How to Drawing Eyes

Now, the next training is practicing to draw the eyes. And here are the steps you can try:


Step 1
Prepare a drawing head that we made earlier.