How to Draw Common Asian Features

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Jay French from Jay French Studios dot com. And I'm going to show you how to draw Asian features. As you start with the shape of the head there's a lot of roundness to the head shapes in most Asians. Although you can still have a lot of point to a chin. You want a lot of roundness to a jaw. This of course is not a fool proof a hundred percent rule. It is just a general guideline. Now lets get our basic face grid in here. Now generally, Asians have eyes that are a little further apart. An important feature to capture in art on Asian eyes is to have them fairly straight across the top. Maybe only a slight curve. Have a dramatic curve that almost goes completely or even does go completely vertical as the inside of the bridge of the nose. Now you can get regional here. For example China and Viet Nam, Korea, that area, tends to be a lot more of an angle. Japanese, Philippine tends to not be as sharply angled. In fact they, the top of this eye would even maybe angle downward slightly for more of the further Eastern features. Usually you have dark eyes, dark color to the iris. I'm just going to fill in the basics there. Very subtle in most Asian features on the eyelids. You get a very, and you don't want to get very strong, you want to get very subtle in those lines. Eyebrows are usually very strong but not thick. Because of course there are always exceptions. Nose bridge of course starts out wide, but often gets narrower. They tend to not have, most Asian features do not have particularly prominent points to the nose or nostrils, whether they, whether you have a point that comes down lower or nostrils that come down lower they tend to be pretty even for the most part. And get quite often a prominent ball to the nose. And you tend to have not as much angular shape to the actual line of the mouth. And there also tends to be less width. Again, this is especially true in the Western China, Viet Nam. You also have a lot less curvature generally, to the top of the lip than you see in Caucasian features. Get some strong cheekbones that start high. Not too prominent on the chin and you have your basic lesson in how to draw Asian features."