Sketching a masked, armed figure with layered clothing takes some focused work, and this guide on how to draw Takao Hiyama walks through exactly that with the rest of the Future Diary character lineup available on the site. The gas mask and goggles replace a standard face entirely, which shifts the complexity from facial features to costume structure and silhouette.
What Makes This Character a Drawing Challenge
The tutorial runs 12 steps from rough structure to a fully colored result. Most of the detail work lands in the middle steps where the coat layers, belt, pockets, and gloves all stack up. The masked face is actually less demanding than it looks since there are no eyes or expressions to nail, but getting the hat brim and goggle proportions right takes a careful eye.
Takao Hiyama’s Key Visual Features
- Long wavy reddish-brown hair, wide black hat
- Yellow-tinted goggles and gas mask on face
- Dark gray long coat with belt and pockets
- Dark pants and black gloves
- Large combat knife held at his side
If you want more characters from the series to sketch, Deus Ex Machina is a completely different kind of challenge with its abstract form, while Marco Ikusaba and Tsubaki Kasugano both offer solid practice with more human anatomy and clothing detail.
Reading the Step Colors in This Guide
Each step in the drawing uses a three-color system to keep things clear:
- Red Color: lines added in the current step.
- Black Color: lines completed earlier.
- Gray Color: base sketch for structure.
How to Draw Takao Hiyama: Step-by-Step Tutorial
Finished the Sketch? Share It
Once you have the final colored drawing done, drop it in the comments. It is always good to see how different people handle the coat shading and the goggle tint. New tutorials get posted to Facebook and Telegram as soon as they go live, a new YouTube video goes up every day based on existing guides, and Pinterest stays updated regularly too. For more Future Diary characters to work through, Yuno Gasai is one of the more demanding builds on the site, and Minene Uryuu covers another armed character with heavy clothing detail. If you want to support the project, the Patreon page has unique hand-drawn coloring pages available that you will not find anywhere else.