This step by step tutorial explains the specifics of cartoon female anime and manga style eyes and provides detailed drawing examples for each step.

Female anime eye drawing step by step
Female anime eye drawing step by stride

This tutorial focuses on cartoon female person anime eyes but there are many other eye drawing tutorials hither on AnimeOutline also. If y'all've already looked at those delight exist aware that there may be some overlapping information.

For the male optics drawing tutorial yous can cheque:

How to Draw Male Anime & Manga Optics

Female Anime Center Specifics (Earlier Y'all Get-go Drawing)

Anime eyes are well-nigh always drawn bigger and wider than real eyes. This is specially then for female characters who ofttimes have larger and wider optics than their male person counterparts.

One thing that really sets female person anime eyes autonomously from male are more prominent eyelashes (longer, thicker, and more of them). This is not ever the example but it does tend to be so.

For different styles of anime eyes you can check:

How to Draw Unlike Types of Anime and Manga Eyes

Be sure to make light lines for the line cartoon part of the tutorial (if drawing on paper) equally you volition need to do some erasing through the different steps. You tin become over your drawing with a more solid line once y'all are done.

Step 1 – Describe the Outer Shape of the Eye

Female anime eye eyelids
Female anime middle eyelids

First the drawing with the outer shape of the heart. In this case the eyelids/eyelashes.

For more on cartoon eyelashes come across:

How to Draw Anime Eyelashes Footstep by Pace

Step 2 – Draw the Shape of the Iris

Female anime eye iris
Female person anime middle iris

Describe the iris vertically stretched (compared to a real eye). Basically an oval with the top and bottom hidden by the eyelids.

Footstep 3 – Depict the Student

Female anime eye pupil
Female anime heart student

Inside the iris depict the student tracing the shape of the iris simply smaller.

Step iv – Bespeak Dark Area at Peak of Iris

Female anime eye upper area
Female anime eye upper area

Make a line towards the upper half of the eye that will signal the darker area partially created by the shadow and the eyelashes reflecting in the optics.

You can erase the line overlapping the pupil in the adjacent footstep. The reason for cartoon it all the mode though like that is to make sure that both sides match upwardly and that you have a nice and smooth curve.

Footstep 5 – Draw the Main Reflection

Female anime eye primary light reflection
Female anime eye principal light reflection

Draw the main reflection area from the master light source such as an indoor low-cal seedling, a burn down, or the sun. Y'all can erase the expanse of the pupil and shadow that is overlapped by the reflection.

The shape and color of the reflection can depend on the shape and colour of the light source. Ordinarily in anime you can simply leave the reflection white and requite it a very generalized shape like a circumvolve or an oval.

Pace 6 – Draw the Secondary Reflection

Female anime eye secondary light reflection
Female person anime eye secondary low-cal reflection

This reflection will usually come from the lite of the primary light source bouncing off of a surface and will be smaller than the primary reflection.

Again erase the part of the student overlapped past the reflection.

Footstep 7 – Shade The Unlike Area of the Centre

Female anime eye shading
Female anime centre shading

Finally you can shade the different areas drawn in the previous stride. If drawing on paper just leave the reflections white.

Shade the eyelids which are also technically role of the eyelashes blackness. Shade the educatee black equally well.

Finally shade the iris greyness or whatsoever color you want the optics to have.

Pace eight – Add together the Outer Top Eyelid Eyelashes

Female anime eye top eyelashes
Female anime center top eyelashes

It should be noted that you could stop at stride vii of this tutorial and have a perfectly normal anime centre but since the tutorial focuses on female optics we will add some eyelashes.

The first place you lot desire to add together the eyelashes to is the outer corners of the eye. Generally eyelashes (real eyelashes) sort of fan out around the eyelids so you can draw anime eyelashes in a similar way.

Next add together some smaller eyelashes at the inner corner of the center.

Since the eyelashes are fairly pocket-size y'all can also shade them as you depict them.

There is no need to add together whatever in the center as these commonly tend to signal forrad and therefore visually sort of simply merge into 1 shape.

Step nine – Add the Bottom Eyelashes

Female anime eye drawing
Female person anime eye drawing

Finally add some tiny eyelashes at the outer and inner lesser corners of the eye to take a finished drawing of a female anime eye.

Color & Slope

Female anime eye color drawing
Female anime eye color drawing

You can also color the center instead of just shading it with greys as well as add some gradient.

For slope you can shade the iris to exist darker towards it's outer edges and lighter towards the middle.

Drawing Both Eyes

Female anime eyes drawing
Female anime optics drawing

If you are drawing both eyes at once draw out each pace for each eye before moving on to the next stride.

For an explanation as to why and for other important drawing tips yous check:

Beginner Guide to Drawing Anime & Manga

Another affair to note is that the light reflections will not exist mirrored and will be in the same positions in both eyes.

Female anime eyes color drawing
Female anime eyes color drawing

Placing Anime Eyes on the Head Vertically

Female anime eyes vertical placement
Female person anime eyes vertical placement

To place the eyes on the head vertically divide the head into two and draw them below the heart halfway bespeak.

Please note that existent eyes are unremarkably positioned directly on this line only in anime eyes tend to exist fatigued lower downwards on the head. Especially so for younger female characters.

Spacing Anime Eyes

Female anime eyes spacing
Female anime optics spacing

To place the optics out you can simply leave a distance of the width of 1 middle between them.

Conclusion

Though anime eyes are not that hard to draw they do have a lot of variations based on different states, emotions and even personalities. For more on drawing all of these encounter the post-obit tutorials:

  • How to Draw Airtight, Closing & Squinted Anime Optics
  • How to Draw Anime Optics and Eye Expressions
  • How to Draw Anime and Manga Eyes to Show Mood & Personality