How to Draw a Manga-Style Face (Mark Crilley's "Miki Falls")

Human eyeballs never grow. So babies/children have large eyes in proportion to the rest of the face, and length between eyes and nose is small. As our face grows, in height and width, the eyes appear smaller, but is the same.

If you want to draw a child (or a really cute manga creature), make the eyes propotionally larger than the rest of the face, or the face smaller and rounder.

Anatomically the distance between one eye to another is the length of another eye, and that does not change.

It's not really that "child miki" has a wider face it's more that "older miki" has a longer face with eyes placed higher than "Child miki".
If that made sense XD (nice observation ^^)

I noticed that the drawing from before (that had a wider face) looked a lot more like a child than the newer Miki (longer face). Do children usually have wider faces than adults?

nice drawing!

How long have you been drawing manga? I just started I am not very good but I hope to become a great artist just like you!

Were you doing this in your car? I can hardly draw on a flat surface! Consider yourself envied, my friend.

thanks for the awesome tutorial, i hope i could draw good one day.

Hey wow i love your stuff! I know u are a very busy man but i was just wondering whether or not you could do anymore line by line drawings? they really help me out with my drawing ..

JAJA! SUFFER! LOL

lolz I hate my art teacher

heh mark love ur stuff, just had a giggle moment seeing miki bald keep posting man

omg me too i get in trouble cause on all my test there is kanjin or anime doodles everywhere

Yes!!! I can see how you are holding the pencil, and it's exactly similar to my own way.

Fact is, my arts&crafts teacher has been hassling me because I'm "holding the pencil too hard", but judging from this video, where we can see your pointer almost snapping in two places, I can finally tell her to get off my back =D

Funny thing is, she holds you and your videos in high regard, and never misses a chance to quote you, Mark =)

Cheers!

-Aleks

hey i really like your drawings, and also the way you explain things because you make your tutorials interesting

I'm right behind you on that marathon! ^^