Yep! I'm not the best at it, but eyes are my forte. :) Ummmm I usually look at the lines that make up the eyes and draw them so that they all fit together like a puzzle. For instance, some eyes, like girly female manga eyes, are made up of one tall arch for the upper eyelid and a tiny tickmark for the lower eyelid, and the pupils are an upside down tall arch instead of a complete circle. Eyelashes are spare little lines or one thick line that ends in a point, facing towards the ear. That probably wasn't very helpful... Maybe I can make a video...?

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Hi! Yeah, eyes are always the hardest part for me. They’re the most striking and noticeable part of an anime character, but very hard to do.

Start with guidelines. I always have trouble placing them on the head, but they should be about in the middle. Female eyes always have a thick, curving line on top and a smaller, thinner line on the bottom. The top line should have a little point at the end, and shouldn’t connect with the bottom.

Inside, there should be a wide oval. My newest style is kinda abstract, and just fills in that oval with some slight shading but for a traditional look I put a black oval in the center, some sparkly reflections wherever the light is hitting (something you really need to think about for shading) and some lighter color near the bottom. The bigger and brighter the eye, the cuter and younger the character looks. 

For a male eye, the oval is more of a circle and the lines are more narrowed. Also, female eyes often have some slight feathering for lashes. Male eyes often don’t have those.

Finally, you didn’t ask but when winking the closed eye goes in the middle of the open one, not the bottom. 

Hope this helps! I’d love to see some pictures of how it comes out. 

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My best friend got me into it; she's really good and the style she's been drawing in lately is more like realistic manga--I prefer that, as opposed to really cartoony/comic-bookish. 

I would suggest getting a manga drawing book! Mark Crilley is really good, and Chris Hart has a TON of manga books but I don't particularly like his style, I'm just passing it on. I think it's too cartoony/old-school for me. 

I borrowed a book from my friend that's all about drawing manga faces and expressions--I forget who made it but I can post that tomorrow. 

I don't think I have many tips for eyes that I can put into writing right now, but usually for heads I draw a circle, and then divide it in half and divide the bottom into quarters, and the eyes go on the first or second line up from the bottom and I draw the jaw coming off from the circle. There are a bunch of different styles of eyes, some are more realistic and some are more cartoony, but squares/circles work well for starting.

Just for clarity--what I'm pretty sure about (I don't watch anime, unfortunately) is that manga is the art form on paper, or drawn, and anime is the animated form of manga. 

I, Pooki P the fellow manga artist, is here! So... well, there are lots of tutorials on eyes out there on the internet, to start off, but I guess my main tip on drawing eyes works like this:

1) Draw the upper eyelid by making a curved line, and then a small smidgen of the lower eyelid

2) Add an oval for the actual eye, making sure it is long-ways with the upper eyelid concealing a bit of the top.

Then again my style of eyes works mainly for drawing cute, young, childlike characters, appealing more in a genre targeted at people who look for characters to love and mentally cuddle. So I guess a lot of it has to do with the genre...? IDK, just look through mangas in the genre that appeals to you and then look at the eyes I guess. 

Space them so that a third eye could fit between them, and practice. There are a lot of kinds of anime eyes; Pokémon eyes are different from Naruto eyes are different from Sailor Moon eyes, and so on. Try copying them to compare and contrast. There are a lot of books about this, too, if you want extra information.

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