This document provides tips for drawing anime characters. It discusses drawing the face with round female features and square male features. It notes eyes are the most important feature. Hair tips suggest drawing locks of hair and adding volume for females and less for males. The document stresses learning to draw eyes well, with large round eyes for females and smaller squinty eyes for males to convey emotion. Links are provided for additional reference material.

1. Tips for Drawing Anime
• In this PowerPoint I’m going to go
over some of the huge factors that will
help you learn how to draw anime.
• When you apply these tips I know it
will knock off a lot of time from your
learning curve.
• Instead of it taking you several
months it might only take you one or
two to really get it down 

2. Look at the Human Face
• The human face should be round for females
and more square for males.
• Male features are larger than a female’s. The
only exception is the eyes. Females have
larger eyes than males because it makes them
appear healthier and more youthful.
• Males have larger noses, more powerful
eyebrows, bigger lips, bigger chins, etc.

3. Look at the Human Face
• Males have more angular shapes and square
shapes because it shows off their dominance.
• Females can even look like children sometimes.
It’s how the anime genre is and how we
exaggerate some characteristics to make the
viewer feel a certain way.
• Check this site out for some great tips. It really
helped me a lot. http://drawanimefast.com/howto-draw-anime-faces/

4. Learn to Draw Anime Hair
• Drawing hair is actually easy, it just takes some
trial and error. Keep these principles in mind.
• Drawing locks of hair is the fundamental skill
here. Once you get that down, the rest is easy.
• A female’s hair has a lot of volume. The bigger
and more volume it has, the better it makes
your female character look.

5. Learn to Draw Anime Hair
• A male’s hair usually does not have much volume
if you want him to look dominant and masculine.
• But a man can have hair with volume if you want
him to appear kind, gentle, and young. Then you
can give him long hair or something other than
just short hair.
• Here is a great resource that helped me learn
faster than normal:
http://drawanimefast.com/how-to-draw-animehair/

6. The Eyes are the Window to the Soul!
• I saved the best for last. Learn how to draw
eyes! A huge mistake that people make is they
try to go all out drawing everything else but
they don’t put enough time into the eyes.
• A female’s eyes are large, round, and feminine
looking. They draw a lot of attention. They
make you feel warm on the inside (unless she
is angry of course or feeling a negative
emotion).

7. The Eyes are the Window to the Soul!
• A male has squinty and narrow eyes. You can make
them somewhat larger but generally a male is always
going to have smaller eyes than a female.
• Make your eyes convey emotion to your viewer. Do you
want your viewer to see a happy character? Or an
angry character?
• Add a highlight in the eyes to make them even more
attractive. This gives them a 3D look and draws more
attention to them.
• Check out this site. This is where I learned everything I
know. Drawanimefast.com