Spiky hair jutting out in every direction and tear streaks under wide-open eyes make Taiju Oki’s face one of the most expressive portraits in the Dr. Stone series, and this tutorial breaks that face down into 16 manageable steps so you can draw it with confidence. Learning how to draw Taiju Oki’s face means wrestling with some sharp, irregular lines that reward a loose sketching hand.
A Portrait Built on Raw Emotion
This is a head and face portrait, nothing below the collar, so all 16 steps focus on the face structure and its expressive details. The tutorial ends on clean line art rather than a colored version, which keeps the focus squarely on getting the angular shapes and asymmetric hair right. The shocked, open-mouth expression introduces some mouth and jaw construction that is trickier than it first looks, and the tear marks under both eyes require careful placement to read correctly.
What Taiju Looks Like in This Drawing
- Wildly spiky hair with sharp jagged points
- Thick angular furrowed eyebrows
- Wide open eyes with tear marks below
- Open mouth in a shocked, angry expression
- Partial shirt collar visible at bottom
If you want more face and character practice from the same series, Kohaku’s face is a good companion piece with contrasting softer features. For something with more body construction, the full-body Moz sketch and Nikki Hanada in warrior stance both push the figure work further.
Understanding the Step Color System
Each step image uses a three-color system to show exactly what is new and what came before:
- Red Color: lines added in the current step.
- Black Color: lines completed earlier.
- Gray Color: base sketch for structure.
How to Draw Taiju Oki’s Face: Step-by-Step Tutorial
Finished the Drawing? Share It
Post your finished Taiju sketch in the comments below. Seeing how others handle the hair spikes and tear marks is genuinely useful for anyone working through the same steps. New tutorials go up on Facebook and Telegram as soon as they are published, a new YouTube video based on existing guides drops every single day, and Pinterest stays updated regularly as well. For more Dr. Stone character practice, Suika with her watermelon helmet and the full-body Senku Ishigami walkthrough are worth adding to the queue. If you find these guides useful, supporting the project on Patreon keeps new content coming and gives you access to unique hand-drawn coloring pages.