Anime girl pose sketch

Instead of bothering too much about your chibi proportions, think about the expression: Do you like chibi characters whose cheeks swell up like squirrels? This video takes you through some of the many ways to draw manga eyes in a helpful step-by-step fashion.

Starting with the head and ending at the bottom of the torso, this tutorial gives you smart shortcuts to help you accurately construct a make manga character.

It's almost like drawing from a picture, but there is one key difference: Because people can't hold still forever, you must draw the pose quickly.

Using our friend the flour sack, we're going to practice conveying attitudes and emotions purely with the body, as this is the foundation for creating stronger, clearer character animation. Is it okay for me to look at references and copy the pose but change the hair and other details?

Several properties of the Diclonii change between the manga and anime; Lucy has much fewer vectors in the anime and her destructive power is far more powerful in the manga, at the point she can destroy buildings and sink an island, and there is greater variation in hair and eye color.