How can I draw anime face and hair better?

[Anonymous No.2856077]

I recently started drawing anime faces and it looks nice as you see it in the picture.

My issue is that I want to draw more symmetrical shapes for the face and learn to draw complex hair styles. If you are an expert in drawing anime, please tell me what drawing techniques you can share with me.

[Anonymous No.2856078]

>>2856077
Draw a lot
Tracing helps

[Anonymous No.2856111]

>>2856077
watch more anime

[Anonymous No.2856116]

>>2856078
>>2856111
God damn this board is cancerous.
Why is this shit called art critique of all the critique my art threads get shit on by refu/b/ees like you?

[Anonymous No.2856121]

I am a connoisseur in the arts of "le anime". To draw anime, you must first learn to feel anime.

Seriously though, practise fundamentals, watch videos of industry artists working and read the sticky.

[Anonymous No.2856126]

>>2856077
Eyes too high
Why no foreheads

[Anonymous No.2856128]

>>2856126
I can't figure out how much forehead there is because the hair blocks the top of the head.

[Anonymous No.2856131]

>>2856128

There are some general rules for where eyes/noses etc get placed within the frame of the head, I'd suggest learning a little more about anatomy of human faces - it will help you out here as well.

[Anonymous No.2856133]

>>2856116
I'm not kidding, watch more anime then compare it to your dogshit and you'll see where you're going wrong

[Anonymous No.2856142]

>>2856077
you serious bro? It looks great already. Maybe finish the body and it'll look more wholesome.

[Anonymous No.2856298]

>>2856133
I'm not op

[Anonymous No.2856301]

>>2856298
Sometimes I forget that only /pol/ has IDs

[Anonymous No.2856307]

>>2856077
I like it, got a blog? And how old are you?

[Anonymous No.2856350]

>>2856307
Dont do it

[Anonymous No.2856358]

shit posting lvl is at a new lvl people
and legit just go on youtube and watch a video on it

[Anonymous No.2856360]

>>2856358
I don't know why but the most incompetent people come to /ic/ who don't even know how to google or use youtube. They ask the dumbest questions ever. It's like what the fuck? Where the fuck did you come from?

[Anonymous No.2857570]

>>2856077
>How can I draw anime face and hair better?
You dont. draw shit that doesnt suck.

[Anonymous No.2857828]

>>2856077
I feel like this will eventually help me. I'm using Prismacolor pencils, specifically non-photo blue.

From there, graphite with a touch of .3mm technical pen.

[Anonymous No.2857840]

Buy a Tamiya modelling brush for inking hair. Get it in rough hair or taklon.

[Anonymous No.2857852]

learn construction, it'll help you place features

one good resource for construction is
you guessed it
loomis

[Anonymous No.2858236]

You get better at drawing anime heads by getting better at drawing heads in general. The anime head is just a modification of the human head. Here are some tips to help:
1)Practice drawing the skull. Master drawing the skull and you've essentially mastered drawing the head. Because the head is just flesh laid on top the skull and you'll have a much better understanding how the head. Consider getting a skull replica to practice with.
2) Learn to think of everything in 3D. Your drawing looks flat because you're thinking in a flat two dimension. Everything in life has depth. There's a front, side, and back to everything. And it'll help to think in those terms.
Take >>2857828 's drawing as an example. Its very stylized but it works because there's a sense of depth. The arms are the front, shoulders are the sides and the hair behind the ears are in the back. Good practice to do is to just draw the "hidden" contours of objects around you and/or taking up perspective.
3)Learn facial proportions. This is learning the patterns that typical arise in human faces. How far away are the eyes on a face typically? How long is the typical head and where does the sides of the mouth end in relation to the eyes? Modifying the head will be easier if you know what patterns to tweak.

Whether op's post was shitpost or not, I'm sure someone came about this thread and benefitted from this advice.

[Anonymous No.2858239]

>You'll have a much better understanding of how the head works.
Should have proof read my shit before posting.

[Anonymous No.2858312]

>How can I draw anime f-

Copy your favorite anime artists. Seriously that's how the japs do it. Be a clone of them.

[Anonymous No.2858315]

>>2858312
>copy their favorite anime artists
>somehow develop own style

[Anonymous No.2858318]

>>2858315
a person can't really 1:1 a person's style, sorta like how painters can't be 1:1 clones of their favorite painter, so yeah of course that gives birth to styles. Something that looks like it, but isn't

[Anonymous No.2858321]

>>2858236
>there's a sense of depth.

Negro did even look at the shitty drawing you're praising?

[Anonymous No.2858386]

>>2858321
I'm saying that despite it's very stylized cartoony style, there's a front, side, and back to the girl in the drawing. Helping to not make her look so flat.

[Anonymous No.2858467]

It helps to find active reference images that you can copy a few times over the course of a page. Get in the habit of drawing panels in your sketchbook.

[Anonymous No.2858470]

>>2858467
>tfw you realize reading manga and drawing manga are two different things and that all your reading experience doesn't mean you remember how to do paneling at all

[Anonymous No.2858472]

>>2858321
It's mango. You're not going to get any more depth than that without rendering.

[Anonymous No.2858485]

>>2856077
Firstly I'd throw away any Mark Crilley / Christopher Hart books. That shit's cancer and I wasted a good six months drawing heads like in your picture before I realized what fundamentals are

[Anonymous No.2858491]

>>2858485
Those books are good please.
It's not their fault you suck at following directions.

[Anonymous No.2858568]

>>2858491
Chris pls go

[Anonymous No.2858573]

>>2858491
dude crilly defiantly sucks and i have never heard of the other guy. its bullshit even by anime standards.

[Anonymous No.2858586]

>>2858491

[Anonymous No.2858587]

>>2856077
I'm going to take it upon myself to sage as much as possible starting with you. We aren't like other boards here. You will learn, or you will leave!

[Anonymous No.2858742]

A general tip that has helped me is that eyes are placed pretty low on the head

[Anonymous No.2858763]

Gotcha covered, op.

[NotOp No.2859031]

>>2856077
start with getting some blank paper, you fucking nigger

[Anonymous No.2859074]

>>2856301
/soc/ does too

[Anonymous No.2859076]

>>2858763
This shit never ceases to amaze me. Does he have cum in his hair or..?

[Anonymous No.2859084]

>>2856077
very sugoi
blog?

[Anonymous No.2859093]

>>2856077
>it looks nice as you see it in the picture
You got me good, OP