Can't wait to get home from school to watch your favorite anime? Now you can take your heroes with you, thanks to these anime male characters drawing tutorials for beginners.
24 Easy Anime Male Characters Drawing Ideas
Goku
Goku is the quintessential male anime character, embodying the muscles, rectangular eyes, and spiky hair that have become standard.
Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender
Aang's bald head is emblazoned with a large arrow. His features are softer and more childlike than many of our heroes. He wears a tunic with a tall collar.
Zoro from One Piece
Zoro has short, spiky hair. He wears multiple earrings in one ear, and he has scars across his eye and chest.
Zenitsu Agatsuma from Demon Slayer
Rather than being spiky and standing on end, Zenitsu's hair is rectangular and hangs down around his face. He wears a boldly patterned tunic.
Killua Zoldyck from Hunter x Hunter
Killua has typical spiky hair. His eyes are large and rounded but still somewhat rectangular. A hoodie is his garment of choice.
Broly
Broly has the spiky, upturned hair of a super Saiyan, as well as insanely defined muscles. His focused eyes show no signs of pupils.
Hisoka from Hunter x Hunter
Hisoka is a bishōnen or "beautiful boy" character. His features are softer. He also wears unique attire and has star and teardrop-shaped markings on his cheeks.
Katsuki Bakugo from My Hero Academia
Katsuki embodies the angry anime face. Under his spiky hair, his brows are furrowed in a "V" shape, and the lines between his teeth are almost fang-like instead of straight.
Kakashi Hatake from Naruto
Most of Kakashi's face is hidden behind a mask, but he bears spiky hair, a scar across one eye, and armored clothing.
Hawks from My Hero Academia
As his name suggests, Hawks has hawklike features - wings. He has spiky hair and wears goggles, headphones, and a lined sherpa jacket.
Dabi from My Hero Academia
Beneath his expectedly spiky hair, Dabi's features are quite shocking. The skin below his eyes and mouth is stitched and scarred.
Goku Black
In this iteration, Goku looks much like his normal form, but his face tells a different story. His brows are furrowed, and his mouth is drawn into a smirk.
Natsu from Fairy Tail
Natusu has spiky hair and rectangular anime eyes. He wears a tank top, a striped scarf, and a dragon tattoo.
Tanjiro Kamado from Demon Slayer
Tanjiro has spiky hair and large, rounded eyes. He wears long, dangling earrings and has a prominent scar on his forehead.
Monkey D. Luffy from One Piece
Monkey has spiky hair, but his eyes are very round in contrast to most other characters. He has a scar on his cheek and wears a characteristic straw hat.
Deku from My Hero Academia
Deku has spiky hair and large, rounded eyes. His cheeks are freckled, and he wears a respirator around his neck.
Vegeta from Dragon Ball
In this picture, Vegeta is a Super Saiyan, his hair erect. He has huge muscles and wears gloves and a sleeveless garment.
Naruto
Naruto's hair is spiky, but with less detail than many characters. He wears a Leaf Village headband and a jacket with a large collar. He has whiskerlike markings on his cheeks.
Shinnosuke Nohara from Crayon Shin-chan
Shinnosuke is stylistically simple, with very little detail to his facial features. He has "V" shaped eyebrows and slicked-back hair.
Sasuke Uchiha from Naruto
Sasuke's long, spiky hair cascades around his Leaf Village headband. His eyes are rectangular but somewhat softer than many characters'.
Itachi
Itachi has long, downturned spiky hair and a Leaf Village headband. His defining feature is his two Sharingan eyes.
Shoto Todoroki from My Hero Academia
Shoto's spiky hair is bicolored, denoting his mixed heritage of fire and ice. He has a large scar on his face surrounding one eye.
Gon Freecss from Hunter x Hunter
Gon's hair consists of narrow, long spikes, and he has rounded eyes. He smiles out from his traditional high-collared tunic.
Goku Ultra Instinct
In this form, Goku's hair is spiky like his usual hairdo, not upturned as a Super Saiyan. His muscles bulge, and he has a very serious look on his face, denoted by his furrowed brow.
More About Anime Male Characters Drawing Tutorials
Did you know? Some anime cartoons and manga comic books are written just for boys. These are called shōnen, which means "young man." The stories are action-packed, often featuring battles and competitions that pit good against evil.

The heroes are often underdogs at first, but they build a team of loyal friends and grow stronger and wiser by overcoming challenges.
In addition to common themes, male anime characters also share a distinctive art style. Their eyes are often rectangular, and their hair spiky. Often, they have large, bulging muscles and "X" shaped veins pop out on their faces when they fight or yell.

Would you like to master the anime art style and draw your favorite characters? Even if this is your first time drawing anime or manga, don't worry. These step-by-step drawing guides break it down so even beginners can master this iconic style.
You'll find characters from all your favorite anime below. You can even draw your own crossover comics, pitting characters that wouldn't normally interact against one another.