A slightly brooding, forward-facing portrait pose is what this step-by-step guide captures for Aru Akise, one of the more calculated characters in the Future Diary anime lineup. The tutorial walks through how to draw Aru Akise with clean linework and full color across 13 steps.
What Goes Into Drawing Aru Akise
This is a portrait-style build with the emphasis on the face and upper body, so most of the 13 steps are spent getting the facial structure, hair texture, and jacket layering right. The tousled silver-gray hair takes the most attention since it spikes in multiple directions and sets the overall silhouette. The final result is fully colored, which means the last steps shift focus from line control to flat color application.
Aru Akise: Key Design Elements
- Spiky silver-gray hair, wildly tousled
- Pink-red eyes with serious expression
- White collared shirt with dark necktie
- Purple and teal hooded jacket
- Neutral, slightly brooding facial expression
If you want to keep building out the cast, Kamado Ueshita and Reisuke Houjou are covered in separate guides, and Minene Uryuu offers a good contrast in character energy once you are comfortable with Akise.
Reading the Step Colors
Each step image uses a three-color system to show what is happening at each stage:
- Red Color: lines added in the current step.
- Black Color: lines completed earlier.
- Gray Color: base sketch for structure.
How to Draw Aru Akise: Step-by-Step Tutorial
Finished Your Sketch? Share It
Once you have worked through all 13 steps, post your finished drawing in the comments below. Seeing how different people handle the hair spikes and jacket coloring is always useful for others working through the same tutorial. New guides go up on Facebook and Telegram as soon as they are published, a new YouTube walkthrough based on existing tutorials goes live every day, and Pinterest stays updated regularly too. For more from the series, check out Yuno Gasai or Takao Hiyama as your next subject. If you find these guides useful and want to support the project, the Patreon page has unique hand-drawn coloring pages available that you will not find anywhere else.