Q&A for How to Draw Simple Anime Eyes

It would probably be the best to use a sharp pencil and sketch lightly.

You can. Make the pupils look away from the thing that the character is getting shy about. You should most likely also add blush.

Yes, adding stars will convey a dreamy appearance.

You could trace your first eye, flip the paper over, and use that to sketch out the second eye. Or you could just learn to accept and embrace the little imperfections in your drawings -- after all, very few people have perfectly symmetrical faces/eyes.

Give it raised eyebrows and make the mouth large and open.

It's not necessarily hard, but it takes practice. Don't expect to make great eyes right away. You can make easy kawaii eyes by making a circle, with one big circle and two small circles inside of it.

To a certain extent, yes. Male characters often have smaller, sharper eyes. Their eyelashes will be less defined as well.

You should make a half-closed eye and tilted eyebrows. It will make it look tired.

Yes, the eyes can be any color you'd like. It's completely up to you.

Make their eyes crossed or tilt their head and add a question mark.

About three hours of practice as a beginner, but that's a rough guess based on one person's experience and it may take you less or more time. If it gets too annoying or if you keep messing up, try a different style of eye. It helps to have someone who knows how to draw well sit with you and guide you.

Draw the eyebrows on an angle going down, and add the tears near the bottom of the eyes.

Yes. Anybody can draw anime eyes if they put their mind to it.

Draw them just a bit more narrow than a woman's and skip the eyelashes.

You could draw tears in the eyes and adjust the eyebrows (if you're drawing them) to make it look sad.

You can make the eyes look tense and squinted while adding some shading and shadows around the outside.

It would be very hard to draw it perfectly on the first try! Doing it perfectly at first doesn't matter. Doing things right takes time, and even if it won't be totally perfect, your best is the best you can do and that's good enough!

Use a mirror, or take a photo of the right eye with a mobile device, then use an app to horizontally flip the photo, so the right eye looks like a left eye.

Start with a pen as it usually is easier to define things with, and have a thin nib (you should usually draw with a thin-nibbed pen), which is easy to draw with. Pencils vary in shades, and get blunt very easily, which makes it harder to define things and makes drawings very thick. However, pencils are good if you tend to make mistakes as you can rub them out.

Emotions are expressed with the mouth, eyes and eyebrows. Try looking in a mirror while making different facial expressions, then trying to replicate them.

It depends. If you're just drawing an eye, you can make it as big as you want as long as it fits on the paper or in the area you want to draw it on. If you're drawing a face, make sure the face can fit on the paper, and make the eyes proportional to the face. Same thing if you're drawing a whole person. You can always draw a light sketch of the face and/or body if you need it to guide you, which you can then erase.

Adding a heart instead of a pupil can indicate love. Pair with a surprised, dazed, or overly smiley expression.

For wings, you could draw two peaks on either side of the body (facing outward from underarm), then swoop up from the bottom back to a little below the start of the peak. Then you could modify it with feathers, then do that on the opposite side, for a crown.

Yes. You would only draw a portion of the eyes.

Once you've drawn the non-winking eye, place a ruler horizontally across the eye, cutting through the center. If you do this correctly, only half of the fully drawn eye should be visible. Then, on the other side of the face, where the winking eye will be, draw a small line aligned with the ruler. Remove the ruler and use the small line as the base to flesh out the winking eye.

Yes, you can use whatever medium you like, including drawing apps.

Try drawing the eyebrows going downwards like this: >:( and/or try making the pupils red.

First of all, you should practice. You might be able to find some tutorials on YouTube to help you as well. If not, try drawing other things and come back to this once your skill level has improved.

You could draw the eyes looking away or down. Your character could also have a blush.

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