This tutorial will look at some common practices when cartoon anime glasses. For the well-nigh part anime and manga spectacles are drawn like to existent glasses merely there are a few things that make them a little different from other styles.

Anime glasses drawing examples
Anime glasses drawing examples

Drawing an Anime Head & Face (Before the Spectacles)

Anime female head & face front & side views
Anime female caput and face

Before you lot describe the glasses in whatever style it's skilful practice (especially for beginner artists) to outset draw out the caput and confront.

For drawing anime faces you tin can see:

How to Draw Different Styles of Anime Heads & Faces

Understanding the Placement of Anime Glasses on the Head

Anime glasses on head front & side views
Anime glasses on head

In the above example the glasses are drawn over peak of all head and facial features so that you lot tin see exactly how they will be place on the head (as though the caput is transparent).

Just similar existent glasses they will commonly rest on the nose and get effectually the ears.

Because anime noses are oft very simplified (specially in the front view) it might be a little tricky to correctly place that part of the spectacles. If you identify information technology likewise high or too low it might arrive look like olfactory organ is too short or too long. Be enlightened of this when drawing.

Every bit anime eyes are ordinarily drawn much larger and so real eyes you lot may have to accommodate for that equally well past cartoon larger lenses.

Drawing Glasses in the Anime & Manga Manner

Anime glasses girl front & side views
Anime spectacles

For the front view (as the example above) of anime glasses depict them pretty much as you lot would draw existent glasses while keeping all the things mentioned in the previous footstep in mind.

In the side view case to a higher place you can run into something that tends to be fairly common for anime glasses (though not always the case). That is any portion of the frame of the glasses that would be covering the optics just being "cut out".

Why is this done? One guess is that it simply allows the creative person to better evidence the characters eyes and might likewise save them some fourth dimension when cartoon.

Cartoon Anime Spectacles Downwards on the Olfactory organ

Anime girl glasses on nose front & side views
Anime glasses on nose

In the above example y'all can see how the anime glasses "cut out" works with unlike parts of the frame.

If you want to draw glasses in this way simply exit out the parts that are roofing the eyes.

Anime Glasses Reflection Result

Anime glasses reflection
Anime glasses reflection

Ane other common trick when drawing anime spectacles in is to use the reflection from the lances to not prove the eyes at all. This tin exist done to requite a character a serious, determined or even threatening look (especially if you draw the character with a dark groundwork).

Conclusion

While just one type of spectacles is shown in this tutorial y'all can still utilize the same tricks when cartoon other styles of anime and manga glasses. You can always base of operations anime glasses y'all depict on examples of real glasses if you need more ideas. Pretty much everything mentioned in this tutorial should however utilise.