A close-up portrait with a wide grin and spiked hair flying outward is what this guide focuses on, walking through how to draw the face of Gon Freecss from the Hunter x Hunter anime series in 18 clear steps. The result is line art only, so every step is about getting the shapes, proportions, and hair structure right before moving on.
Sketching a Face Portrait With Attitude
This tutorial covers a front-facing close-up of Gon’s head, which keeps the framing tight and puts all the attention on facial proportions and hair construction. The 18 steps build from a basic head shape through the expressive anime eyes, open smiling mouth, and finally the large two-tone spikes that define the silhouette. The spikes use a filled-black-with-white-highlight technique, so part of the linework challenge is knowing when to fill versus when to leave space. No background, no body detail beyond a collar hint at the bottom, which means there is nowhere for proportion errors to hide.
What Gon Looks Like in This Drawing
- Dramatic outward spikes, black with white highlights
- Large round anime eyes with shine marks
- Open mouth showing teeth, wide smile
- Small rounded ears on both sides
- Collared jacket visible at chin level
If you want to keep building out the Hunter x Hunter character set after this one, the guide on Kurapika’s face follows a similar close-up portrait format and is worth doing back to back. For a full-body challenge from the same series, Zeno Zoldyck and Alluka Zoldyck both offer solid practice with proportions at a different scale.
Reading the Color Coding in Each Step
Each step image uses a three-color system to show 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 the Face of Gon Freecss: Step-by-Step Tutorial
Finished the Sketch? Share It
Once the drawing is done, drop it in the comments so others can see how it turned out. Every new tutorial gets posted to Facebook and Telegram as soon as it goes live, a new YouTube video based on existing guides goes up every day, and Pinterest stays regularly updated if you prefer saving references there. If you want more face portraits from the series, Biscuit Krueger is a good next stop, and the Leorio portrait adds another take on male face proportions in the Hunter x Hunter style. Supporting the project on Patreon helps keep new guides coming and gives you access to unique hand-drawn coloring pages as well.