Anime Boy Playing A Wooden Flute

A boy stands with a wooden flute lifted to his lips, both hands set along the shaft and his fingers covering the holes. Six small circles are drawn down the length of the instrument, which is the one row of tiny shapes on an otherwise generous sheet.

His hair is the feature to look at first. It springs outward in tall pointed spikes, and every spike is drawn as an open outline with white space inside, so the whole crown of the head can be filled with a shade of your choosing rather than sitting as a solid block. That is deliberate. A previous version of this page came back with the hair rendered as one dense mass and it was replaced.

Below that he wears a short sleeved tunic tied with a knotted sash at the waist, loose trousers cut off below the knee, and simple sandals. A pair of grass tufts sits at his feet and two more at the sides, which is the entire background. Nothing competes with the figure.

Soft browns through the flute and the sash, a single bright shade in the hair and pale skin tones will finish this in ten minutes, and a younger child can manage it without straying.