In this lesson we're going to take a look at some ways to draw manga style noses and they really are
a variety of approaches to this varying degree from more realistic to more simplified and symbolic but
to start off we're going to take a look at a real world knows design first and we're going to take a
look at the forms of a real world Nies.
And so really we have this triangular type of shape occurring for real world knows which gives us a
few different planes.
Here we have the bridge and the tip of the nose and into here we have the bottom of the nose and then
we kind of have triangular wing black shapes coming off and and nostrils will typically be hero underneath
and the wing will on the opposing side as we draw through the shape flare out on the opposite side as
well.
And this is typically the baseline forms for a real world nose which we can then turn that into various
types of real world nose designs something like this where we're drawing in the nostril details hinting
at the nostril on the other side.
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However these tops of noses don't look too good in a manga style which is aiming for simplicity and
clear expression read.
And so what we need to do is take this fundamental knowledge and really simplify it down into some manga
styled noses.
And the first style is the Mangat dot switch to a Arabia and do the doffed and this is one you've seen
quite often in the course so far.
And really it's just a dot that indicates the position of the nose and especially in female characters.
We really want to under emphasize the nose as a point of the proportions of the face.
They help to bring out the eyes and in the female characters a smaller nose seems more appealing and
more feminine being a larger nose.
Moving on to the side view this gives us a very typical manga upturned nose design.
So really the dog is the most straight forward way of getting a manga nose in there and is great for
the female characters.
Next we have the manget angled line and you've probably seen this one and this is probably the one that
you tend to go for most often it's quite a common approach to drawing them and God knows that it's really
just an angled line or an angled fold in shape right.
Whatever angle the nose is occurring at.
To use the male model here and we will put in a little angled nose shape and it's quite appealing and
definitely more suitable for male characters.
That's just a general guideline.
And really what it is is an abstraction of the bridge of the nose moving into the tip of the nose and
the front underneath section of the nose.
Another approach is to do the soft angled nose and the soft angled nose really is similar to the angled
nose.
But instead of having a harsh angle we have a soft roundness to the nose shape.
So let's do that on the female character here.
And then another approach that we can take is drawing the angled nostrils really just two dots in a
V-shape type of angle.
So just keep the V shape type of angle in mind.
We'll do that on the male character.
Might as we'll leave that note there.
You can see how we make the far side door a little bit smaller.
And then he said one little bit bigger in an angle.
Now of course we can mix and match between these we can have the soft angle with the DOT if we wanted
to we can have the triangle angle with the nostrils if we want to.
You really can take the style of the quite far with regards to this.
Can you also use a soft triangular shape to indicate the nose.
Nice soft corners.
Funnily for stronger Birley or top of male characters we can define the add in more of a realistic top
of knows where we're drawing either an over or under scaped bridge getting in the nostril designs using
some masculin lines to define these elements and really getting more of a masculine design in
manga.
Noses are essentially symbolic abstractions of the real nose.
And while it's a great idea to go and learn the design of real noses is really important as well to
understand how manga knows all these iconographic symbols.
As you move forward in the course try to experiment with different styles and different nose designs.
And keep in mind the differences between the front and rotated views to the side of these That's the
end of this lesson and I'll see you in the next lesson.