Oh, this thread is suddenly active again? Good thing I glanced into the art forum today.

Slowpid - I've drawn 1/4 and 3/4 perspective faces fairly often actually, have you seen my face collection? But a lot of these are old, I wouldn't mind doing a new set of a face rotated through several positions, I may have time to draw and scan that tomorrow. Could you explain a bit more about what you mean by mechanical drawing and why it is a problem?

Eldron - I'm not really understanding why we're talking about noses since the skeleton doesn't have one, but okay lets talk about noses. As I understand it, an anime nose is actually pyramid-shaped, although stretched and concave so that from a front view it looks like an upside-down kite. (Except for beaky noses. Which are rare in anime but do occur, for example on the character Wolfwood from Trigun.) This kite/pyramid is a sharpened oversimplification of a real nose. However the actual contours of the nose are never drawn (because they're vulgar I guess), only the shadow, which is shaped like a check-mark (narrower in the front view and wider in angled views). So, none of your sketches actually depict an anime-style nose, although number 2 comes closest. There are lots of examples of my noses including a few beaky ones in the face samples pic I linked to above.

DogCity - Interesting pics, thank you for showing them although I don't need a copy. [smile] This particular character is a lot shorter than I am aiming for, but I agree that it is a pretty good anime-style character model, and it's neat to compare the wireframe with the colored version.

nose-detals are not seen as vulgar, they're made petite, but they're definately still there, anime has soo many variations, but the best of it still carries the basics of drawing..






Kaori Yuki, look her up, she's one of the best artists of pretty-boy anime