A Compilation Of Stuff I Know About Drawing Asian Faces And Asian Culture! I Feel Like ManyHow-To-Draw

A compilation of stuff I know about drawing Asian faces and Asian culture! I feel like many “How-To-Draw” tutorials often default to European faces and are not really helpful when drawing people of other races. So I thought I’d put this together in case anyone is interested! Feel free to share this guide and shoot me questions if you have any! I’m by no means an expert, I just know a few things from drawing experience and from my own cultural background. 

Do you have any advice on how to draw a head from a 3/4 view? Those trip me up pretty often when I'm drawing ;-;

Hey! Sorry it took so long for me to respond, finals week has been crazy~ But I put together a little something that I hope will help! Just some basic tips that I keep in mind when I’m drawing. I hope this isn’t too convoluted, I’m still a novice at putting together good tutorials~

EDIT: Tumblr is being super weird and keeps blurring out the quality of the jpg file but I fixed it! It’s still a little blurry but it’s much better than before. I’ll probably still post it separately, too :) Thanks for your patience!

And that’s about it! Hope this was helpful :)

Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

How to draw ears, by me.

tip me a ko-fi!

How do you draw a nose with a bump Also my Nena thinks your art is beautiful and that you’re very talented

a bit quick but this are some examples of many cute noses!

ofc this is not the only correct way this are just portrayed in my style you can create many many more! just don’t be afraid to do different noses than just the petit button nose! ( also ayeeeee shoutout to ur nena tell her I say hola lol )

Kemonomimi/Animal ear on human tutorial as requested by a handful of people. Note that this tutorial was made mainly for drawing aurin, and this is just my method of doing it. If anyone finds it helpful then it’s worth the effort of making it. I was looking for similar tutorials, and I couldn’t find any which explains the basics, and I had a hard time at the beginning placing Cia’s ears, because I was going with the human-ish anatomy, and it didn’t really work out (well duh obviously). Having a real object you can have at hand/look at is probably even more helpful. The photos are made of a Monster High Toralei doll, you can pretty much see the form and the shape of the ears on the head. If you have a spare couple of bucks, buy one from ebay (either the full doll or the head only). I can promise you, it helps to clarify things a lot.