ART ADVICE ARTICLE #11: TIPS FOR DRAWING FEMININE FEMALES AND MASCULINE MALES I'm not saying that all female characters should look feminine and all males should look masculine, not at all! But the point of this exercise was to effectively convey a character as either male or female despite hair length, clothing, etc. Every so often, I see people working in anime style asking how to make cartoon/anime guys look male even if they have long hair, so I made this to help in these situations. For this exercise, we'll take the same base sketch (so, in this case, we're not changing either the hairstyle or the face shape), and then use certain visual cues to make one look female and one, male. The results are interesting. : D BASE SKETCH. I started off with an androgynous face and hairstyle for the base sketch. This is the same sketch used in all the drawings in this article. LINEART. The first thing I did was vary the lineart style. This is optional, but we're just throwing all options