How to draw a boy and a girl character in just 5 minutes

This article will help you about how to draw a boy and a girl character in just 5 minutes.

In the past, I have written some articles about drawing something. I tried to give you the easiest trick to draw. You can read all my post in here.

And today we will learn how to draw a boy and a girl character.

But at first, let me share common problem about drawing. Lot of times lot of girls say, they can draw girls but can't draw boys. And when boys try to draw boys, they can do it properly. But when they draw girls, it looks more like a boy. So we will solve that problem today.

Step one: First what we do is, draw the face and body's basic shape with pencil. Basic shape means, as we draw head's shape, we measure it with pencil.

Then draw the body in proportion to the head shape. Normally, in case of realistic figure drawing, one body equals to 7.5 to 8 heads. And the cartoon that I am going to draw will be one body equals to 4 heads.

Step two: On the head shape that I've drawn, according to where the eye should be I'll put an eye line and a middle line to fix where the nose should be.

Then, how our two characters will stand, meaning their body gestures, how will their hands, and legs be positioned. We can decide that with a light line.

Step three: Now according to the character's eye line and middle line, we will draw the eyes, nose, and mouth.

To draw a boy's eyes, we don't need much. Just two dots will be enough. But a boy's eyebrow should be bold. Boy's nose are better drawn in a bit of details. To draw boy's mouth, you dont need much detailing. Only have to draw the expression, either happy or sad. Lip details are unnecessary. You should see the picture below with a cool head. If you stumble in somewhere, comment below. I will help you.

But when it comes to girl's eyes, the whole thing is different. It's good to add as many details as you can.

You can draw eyelashes, add a dark line for the eye line to make it cuter. Remember, girls have thin eyebrows. And the gap between the eye and the eyebrow are more than the boys. For the nose fewer details will make Iit easy. You can draw it with only a line. And finally lips. Upper lips, lower lips, as much detailing as possible, lipstick, pout etc...

Now hair. To draw hair, it has three common parts. Upper part of head, right side, and left side. 

Should I draw straight hair or curly hair for the girl??

Ok, let me do both.

Upper part is straight and lower part is curly. And I've already drawn the boy's hair. It's a big untidy.

Hair is a very important part of character design because hair helps to create a different identity for the character. 

Now look the difference between the boy and the girl characters can be clearly recognized. The boy doesn't look like the girl and the girl doesn't look like the boy.

Now let's add more details to their body's then the character will look more complete. Now, following the initial body outline, let's add details to the characters within it. For example, let's put a pair of headphones on his neck, and make him do a thumbs up with him.

May be the girl is showing 'V'. Put a Kameez on her. Make details of the Kameez. Draw jeans on the boy. 

This way as we want, from people we see around us, we can design two characters. 

Step four: Our character is almost ready. Now with a pen let's just border the characters.

Along with bordering let's make the hair black. And also finalize the details that we was left during penciling. Try to finish designs as well.

See, finally our own characters are ready.

Step five: Now the most difficult part. 

Take an eraser, use lightly in a 35 degree angle and carefully erase the pencil outline. 

I thought, it's enough for today. If you think the process is hard and you can't make it then let me know. I will try to make you understand that what process you couldn't make!

Ok. Final thing. Color it. See our superhero and superheroine.

So here was the article of how to draw a boy and a girl character in just 5 minutes. I hope you enjoy and like it.

Keep practicing..... because if you practice regularly, you can draw any kind of boy or girl so easily.

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*all credit goes to Tonmoy