Your Anime Drawings

[Amethyst]

Sketched this a few mins ago. its a first for me trying to draw Edward from Fullmetal Alchemist. the only thing i think looks weird are the eyes the pic i was using as a reference had them pictured weird.

tell me what you think. im going to post another when im done shading japanese style with color pencil they usual shade with diffrent colors to help show what needs shadow, im going to try this for the first time.

-LE

Very nice, but I can tell you what the problem is, if the position of his right eye is correct, then the left eye needs to be lowered considerably... it should be at an angle slanted downward from the right eye since the head is tilted down and the chin to the left so that left eye needs to be lower to be in line with the right one... could cut down on the space between the eyes and nose a bit or make them larger, or move the nose up a bit...

I don't know if I can describe the line placement for face drawings but I will try... you have a vertical (top to bottom) line in the middle of the face which is where the center of the nose is, then divide that space in half again on each side for the placement of each eye, so a face would have 3 vertical lines... then you do the same thing only horizontally (side to side) with the center line being where the nose is, (probably the bottom of the nose on the line) and then the top half line would be the eyes, and the bottom half line would be the mouth... now you must remember, if the face isn't directly dead on, then you have to adjust the lines accordingly... so if the face is tilted left or right, or up or down, then the lines would follow the tilt of the axis...

Let me go see if I can add a couple of attachments... which might help...

The first one was an art class exercise, you took a magazine picture of a face and cut it in half, then you drew the missing half... which best illustrates what I mean by lines... I didn't get it cut exactly in half and my half is a little off, it should be a tad bit higher I think, and the eye should be in a bit more.

The second one is fairly good, it is from the Vampirella comics from a long time ago, the mouth is a bit off, it needs to be a bit larger on the right side.

The third one is Count D, his left eye needs to be just a tad bit larger to match his right one, and his mouth is also a bit off, it needs to be a bit larger as well.

The fourth one is geishas, I included this one so you can see what I mean by following the axis of the head with the eyes and stuff, especially the one on the right, although there isn't much detail at all, it is the placement that gives it believability.

Don't know if this helps or not...shrug... but I thought I'd try... Man, shrinking those down to be able to upload them doesn't do them any favors for sure!! Sorry about that...