Add the nose halfway between the horizontal line and the chin. Anime noses are subtle, and they’re usually only defined when you’re looking at a character from the side. To draw your character’s nose, draw a short, simple vertical line along the center of the face at the halfway point between the horizontal line and the chin. Make the line longer if you want your character’s nose to be big.[4]
Make the nose the smallest feature on your character’s face.
The nose will overlap with the vertical line you drew. To see it better, make it darker than the vertical line, or erase the vertical line around the nose.
Masculine anime characters sometimes have noses that are more pronounced, but that’s not always the case. If you want your character’s nose to be more noticeable, draw a short horizontal line under the vertical line to represent the bottom of your character’s nose. Also, draw a triangle-shaped shadow on the side of the nose so it looks like the light is hitting your character from the side.
For certain styles of anime, like chibi, you don’t even need to draw a nose at all!
Figure drawing: Basic Pose and Construction By William Li 1. Introduction This method is a tool to help you draw the human form. It is by no means the best way or even a fast way. Instead, this method is aimed at thinking and setting up the human form in a threedimensional space.