This is guide and a reference for drawing different styles of male anime and manga eyes. It provides several examples besides as tips for drawing them.

Anime male eyes style reference
Anime male eyes fatigued in dissimilar styles

Male anime optics are often narrower than their female counterpart and are drawn with fewer to no eyelashes.

Delight note that this guide focuses more on showing actual examples of diverse male person anime eyes. For a step by step tutorial on drawing male anime eyes you can see:

How to Draw Male Anime & Manga Eyes

Common Styles of Male Anime Optics

Common style male anime eyes
Regular style male anime eyes examples

These types of eyes are usually drawn for younger male anime characters and are fairly big and broad. These ordinarily consist of the eyelids/eyelashes, the iris, pupil, reflections and the summit shaded/dark eyelash reflection area.

Serious Styles of Male Anime Optics

Serious style male anime eyes
Serious style male anime optics examples

These types of eyes are usually much narrower (vertically) and are often used for older male characters. They also tend to have much smaller and rounder iris areas closer in proportion to existent eyes.

These types of eyes more often than not tend to be draw with all of the details described in the previous example.

Simplified Styles of Male person Anime Eyes

Simple style male anime eyes
Simplified style male anime eyes examples

Some styles of anime eyes tend to be simplified where some of the more common parts of the optics such as the pupils or shadows are non depict or barely hinted at.

Very Simplified Styles of Male person Anime Eyes

Simplistic style male anime eyes
Very simplified style male person anime optics examples

Very simplified anime eyes can be drawn with fifty-fifty less particular then the previous examples. These types of eyes can be seen on characters from old or very stylized anime and manga.

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This tutorial provides a few example of the different styles of anime eyes just you lot tin can also mix and lucifer different styles for yourself if in that location is a certain look you would like to take for your drawings.

One style of eyes that was not included in this tutorial are "chibi" optics. As those are basically drawn the same for male and female person characters they are already covered in:

How to Draw Unlike Types of Anime and Manga Eyes

For even more examples of anime eyes meet:

  • How to Draw Anime and Manga Eyes to Show Mood & Personality
  • How to Draw Anime Eyes and Center Expressions