Free Download: How to Color Anime Eyes

Master anime eye coloring with our easy tutorial! Learn to add shadows, highlights, and special effects for expressive anime eyes.

I hope you came prepared to this tutorial: Do you even have a pair of eyes to color, yet? Don't panic if the answer is negative! I know life can be stressful and one might hop into a Free Download article unprepared, always rushing through things!

Suffice to say: I have the solution for you in the previous Free Download: How To Draw Manga Eyes article where you will learn how to draw some beautiful Japanese influenced eyes after which you can come back here and color them.

See you later, I'll be here to guide you when you are ready. Like in adventure videogames, I could be waiting here for ages, it makes no difference to me!

Color in Anime

The anime palette is usually characterized by vibrant colors, used to create a sense of excitement in the viewer. A palate combining bright and striking tones is a safe bet to start your eye coloring journey.

The colors often include a range of blues, greens, purples, pinks, and yellows, as well as more muted tones like browns and grays. These colors are often used to create a sense of fantasy and adventure, and to evoke a sense of nostalgia for childhood memories and even elderly memories since manga has existed for more than a century now... Remember when you were old? Weird question, sorry!

So yeah, scrap all those options and make them blue right away, why not? No one is watching to judge your decision! That's what you wanted all along...

Basic Steps and tips

This simple tutorial will guide you to your desired goals. How detailed you want them to be depends on you once you master the simple steps it's a matter of perfection through repetition.

Farthermore, you will be given tips to use in your drawing software, that you might find helpful, if you use Procreate, for example. Layers can help you get that detailed look you might be after!

The First Color Anime Featured Film

Toei Animation and Mushi Production was founded and produced the first color anime feature film in 1958. It was called "The White Snake Enchantress". In it you can still see the Disney influence in the character design from which they will departure shortly after, in movies like "The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun" were the now world famous Miyazaki was involved as a youngling.

We couldn't get to the free download before relating a historical anecdote first, in case someone wasn't feeling impatient enough, already:

Inside this downloadable gift you will find a trusty guide to color your anime eyes but first you should have a face to go along with them, and perhaps even a body... If this interests you, the Domestika course on Manga Characters taught by Andrea Jen (@andrea_jen) cover it all in great detail.

I know this might not be enough for you antsy pants out there, so I come prepared:

- Join our drawing classes

- Anime face drawing tutorial