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Character & Anime Art

Faces, figures, and stylized character work. The flagship of Bio Rust since the beginning, rebuilt with the techniques that earned the archive its name.

Character art is where Bio Rust began, and it is still the heart of the library. The techniques here treat the stylized face and figure as a construction problem you can solve the same way every time: block the underlying forms, place features on a wrapping cross, then style the surface. Master the order and expressive character work stops depending on luck.

Start with the anime eye method, the single most linked piece in the archive, then move to head proportions from any angle and drawing hair as blocks.

How to Draw Anime Eyes: A Complete Method

The eye is the anchor of a stylized face. Build it in the same order every time and it stops feeling like luck.

BeginnerAny drawing appProcreate

Anime Head Proportions From Any Angle

A reliable construction for the stylized head that survives being turned in three quarter view and profile.

BeginnerAny drawing app

Drawing Hair as Blocks, Not Strands

Stop drawing individual hairs. Group hair into a few large flowing masses and the whole thing reads better.

IntermediateProcreateClip Studio

Common questions

Do I need to be able to draw realistically first?

No. Stylized character art has its own logic. A grounding in construction and proportion helps, but you can learn anime and character techniques directly. The methods here are written for artists between beginner and intermediate.

What software do these work in?

All of them. The construction and proportion techniques are tool agnostic and apply in any drawing app, on paper, or on a tablet. Where a step needs a specific feature it is named.

Why start with the eyes?

Because the eye is the anchor of a stylized face and the part most artists find hardest. Getting a repeatable eye method first makes the rest of the face easier to place.