How to draw Deku’s face

Getting the proportions of Deku’s face right is the real challenge here, especially the oversized eyes balanced against the tight freckle placement and wild hair volume. This step-by-step guide on how to draw Deku’s face is part of the broader My Hero Academia tutorial collection on the site.

What This 12-Step Portrait Actually Covers

The tutorial runs through 12 steps and finishes with a fully colored result, so the guide covers both construction and color application. The focus is a front-facing portrait with cropped framing that stops just below the collar, which means most of the work goes into the face structure and hair. The hair silhouette is where the drawing takes the most time, since the spiky two-tone shape needs consistent direction across multiple strands.

Deku’s Face at a Glance

• Wild spiky hair, dark with green tones
• Large round eyes with green irises
• Freckles scattered across both cheeks
• Neutral, determined facial expression
• White high-collar jacket at the bottom

If you want more MHA characters to practice after this one, the Shoto Todoroki Phosphor sketch and the Shemage drawing are both solid next steps. For something with more body detail, Koichi Haimawari in his second vigilante costume gives you a full-figure challenge.

Understanding the Color System in the Steps

Each step image uses a three-color coding system to show exactly what to draw and when:

• Red Color: lines added in the current step.
• Black Color: lines completed earlier.
• Gray Color: base sketch for structure.

How to Draw Deku’s Face: Step-by-Step Tutorial

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Finished Your Sketch? Share It

Once the coloring is done, drop your finished drawing in the comments below. Seeing how different artists handle the hair and freckle placement is always interesting. New tutorials get posted to Facebook and Telegram as soon as they go live, a new YouTube video based on existing guides goes up every day, and Pinterest stays updated regularly too. If you enjoy these guides, supporting the project on Patreon gives you access to unique hand-drawn coloring pages.

More MHA portraits and action poses are available on the site if you want to keep going. Momo Yaoyorozu’s face follows a similar portrait format, and Bakugo in action pose is a good jump once you’re comfortable with faces.