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

Female anime eye drawing step by step
Female anime eye cartoon step by step

This tutorial focuses on drawing female anime optics but at that place are many other eye drawing tutorials here on AnimeOutline as well. If you've already looked at those please exist enlightened that at that place may be some overlapping information.

For the male eyes drawing tutorial you can check:

How to Describe Male Anime & Manga Eyes

Female person Anime Eye Specifics (Before You Kickoff Drawing)

Anime eyes are almost always fatigued bigger and wider than existent eyes. This is peculiarly and so for female characters who ofttimes have larger and wider eyes than their male counterparts.

One thing that really sets female anime eyes apart from male are more than prominent eyelashes (longer, thicker, and more than of them). This is not always the case merely it does tend to exist so.

For different styles of anime optics yous tin check:

How to Draw Different Types of Anime and Manga Eyes

Be certain to brand light lines for the line cartoon office of the tutorial (if drawing on paper) equally you volition demand to do some erasing through the different steps. You lot tin go over your cartoon with a more solid line once you lot are done.

Stride i – Draw the Outer Shape of the Eye

Female anime eye eyelids
Female person anime heart eyelids

Get-go the drawing with the outer shape of the middle. In this case the eyelids/eyelashes.

For more on cartoon eyelashes see:

How to Draw Anime Eyelashes Stride by Step

Pace ii – Draw the Shape of the Iris

Female anime eye iris
Female person anime middle iris

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

Step 3 – Draw the Pupil

Female anime eye pupil
Female anime heart pupil

Inside the iris draw the pupil tracing the shape of the iris but smaller.

Step 4 – Bespeak Night Area at Tiptop of Iris

Female anime eye upper area
Female person anime centre upper area

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

Yous can erase the line overlapping the pupil in the adjacent step. The reason for drawing it all the mode though like that is to make sure that both sides match upwards and that you have a prissy and smooth curve.

Pace 5 – Draw the Primary Reflection

Female anime eye primary light reflection
Female anime eye main light reflection

Draw the main reflection expanse from the master low-cal source such as an indoor light bulb, a burn, or the dominicus. You can erase the expanse of the student and shadow that is overlapped by the reflection.

The shape and color of the reflection can depend on the shape and color of the light source. Usually in anime you can simply exit the reflection white and give it a very generalized shape similar a circumvolve or an oval.

Step six – Draw the Secondary Reflection

Female anime eye secondary light reflection
Female anime eye secondary calorie-free reflection

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

Once more erase the function of the pupil overlapped by the reflection.

Stride vii – Shade The Unlike Area of the Eye

Female anime eye shading
Female person anime heart shading

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

Shade the eyelids which are also technically function of the eyelashes black. Shade the student blackness every bit well.

Finally shade the iris gray or any color you want the eyes to have.

Step viii – Add together the Outer Summit Eyelid Eyelashes

Female anime eye top eyelashes
Female person anime center tiptop eyelashes

It should be noted that you could cease at step 7 of this tutorial and have a perfectly normal anime eye but since the tutorial focuses on female eyes we will add some eyelashes.

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

Adjacent add some smaller eyelashes at the inner corner of the centre.

Since the eyelashes are adequately pocket-size you can also shade them as you depict them.

There is no need to add any in the middle as these usually tend to point frontwards and therefore visually sort of just merge into one shape.

Pace 9 – Add the Bottom Eyelashes

Female anime eye drawing
Female anime middle 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 heart.

Color & Gradient

Female anime eye color drawing
Female anime center color drawing

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

For gradient yous can shade the iris to be darker towards it'south outer edges and lighter towards the middle.

Drawing Both Eyes

Female anime eyes drawing
Female anime eyes drawing

If y'all are drawing both eyes at one time draw out each step for each eye earlier moving on to the next step.

For an explanation every bit to why and for other important drawing tips y'all check:

Beginner Guide to Drawing Anime & Manga

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

Female anime eyes color drawing
Female anime eyes colour drawing

Placing Anime Optics on the Head Vertically

Female anime eyes vertical placement
Female anime eyes vertical placement

To place the optics on the head vertically dissever the head into two and draw them beneath the heart halfway point.

Please notation that real optics are commonly positioned directly on this line but in anime optics tend to be drawn lower downwardly on the head. Specially so for younger female characters.

Spacing Anime Eyes

Female anime eyes spacing
Female anime eyes spacing

To place the eyes out you can simply leave a distance of the width of one eye between them.

Determination

Though anime optics are non that difficult to depict they do have a lot of variations based on unlike states, emotions and even personalities. For more on drawing all of these see the following tutorials:

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