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How to draw a realistic eye
Hi, welcome to RapidFireArt! My name is Darlene and in this tutorial I’m going to teach you how to draw a realistic eye using easy step by step instructions. This is my first tutorial, so I hope you enjoy it!
UPDATE: For a while now, you guys have requested a tutorial on drawing a pair of eyes. Here it is, along with a super in-depth tutorial as well!
For this tutorial on drawing a realistic eye, I will be using the following tools:
– Mechanical Pencil with 0.5 mm HB and 4B Ain Leads
– Derwent Graphic 6B Pencil
– Kneaded Eraser
– Blending Stump (Learn how to use them here)
– Smooth Bristol Paper
Step 1: Outline the Shape of an Eye and Highlight
Let’s start off with an HB pencil to sketch the shape of the eye. This outline should not be too dark because you want to prevent it from showing through in the end. We just need the basic shapes outlined at this point. The square shape in the pupil is a glare from a window or similar shaped light source. You can use other shapes such as circles or ovals as well.
If you’re stuck on drawing a realistic eye shape, iris or eyebrow, visit the 3 pages below:
Step 2: Shade the Pupil
Using a 6B pencil, fill in the pupil. Avoid pressing too hard or else it will be hard for you to erase if you need to make corrections later on. You can go over the area again to achieve a darker shade. Make sure the highlights stay clean!
Step 3: Shade the Iris
On a separate sheet of paper, smear some graphite into a small area. Use the blender to rub the area until the graphite has transferred to the tip of the blender (learn how to use a blending stump here). You will now use that to fill in the outer area of the pupil. This step does not have to be done perfectly. Sloppy smudging will make it turn out better, as well as give the eye more depth.
Step 4: Draw Spokes
With a 4B pencil draw spokes going outward from the pupil. Overlap some of the spokes to create thicker lines. This will make the eye look more interesting. Leave some areas untouched as they will be filled in later.
If you’re enjoying this article, click here for another realistic eye tutorial!
Step 5: Blend the Iris
Use the blending stump to fill the white space in the iris. Carefully work around the highlight. Don’t press too hard. You should still be able to see the lines coming out of the pupil when done. If most of the lines have disappeared, you have either used the blender with too much force, or have not pressed hard enough when creating the spokes.
Step 6: Add Depth
Use the 6B pencil to create a shadow under the eye lid to give the eye more depth and roundness.
Step 7: Shade the Skin
Shade the eye whites as well as the skin around the eyes. Don’t leave the eyeball white or else it will appear unrealistic and lack depth. For a more detailed tutorial on shading eye whites and how to make eyeballs look round, click here.
Darken the creases using a 4B pencil. Use the kneaded eraser to make the highlights pop, as well as dab areas of the eye that need to be lightened. For example the eye whites, lower lash area, brow bone and the inner corner of the eye near the tear duct.
Want to improve your shading skills? Click here to read my shading tutorial!
Step 8: Draw Eyebrows and Eyelashes
Fill in the eyebrows as well as the eyelashes. Eyelashes should be drawn using curved lines, NOT straight lines. To create the eyebrows, use a thin HB pencil. For the eyelashes, go with something darker, like a 6B. Go over the drawing and darken areas such as the pupil, creases, shadows and clean the highlights to make your drawing POP!
Step 9: Touchups
I’ve added some eyelash reflections, some subtle blood vessels as well as darkened the overall drawing. Try to use as many shades as possible when drawing eyes. Most people are afraid to go dark. Look at the picture in step 8 and compare it to the last step. Going dark makes a huge difference! I used to stop at step 8 too, because I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to erase if my hard work turned into a complete disaster. This fear left me unsatisfied with all my drawings because they lacked depth. So take it a step further and make use of your softer pencils!
I hope you enjoyed this simple step by step tutorial on how to draw a realistic eye with pencil.If you have any questions or requests, let me know in the comments below!
So tell me… was that an easy eye drawing tutorial? Or does it need some improvement? Your feedback would be greatly appreciated 🙂
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Darlene created RFA In 2013 with the goal of sharing simple yet detailed drawing tutorials with other artists on the world wide web. She is a self taught pencil portrait artist and Youtuber.
Easy Tips for Drawing Eyes
Eyes are one of the most important features on a character, but can be hard to draw. Don’t worry I will teach you how to draw eyes for beginners. Learn the «eyemask» technique to help you create believable expressions!
Positioning the Eyes
In an average realistic adult face, the eyes are in the middle of the face. Usually, the pupils are sitting on the midway line.
Eyes are a good tool to measure the proportions of the face. In the front view, the eyes are one eye apart from each other and one eye apart from the edge. Due to bangs or sideburns the distance might appear smaller.
Don’t worry too much about symmetry. Keep flipping the drawing horizontally until both ways look right. Human faces are not perfectly symmetrical.
From the side view, the positioning inside the eye socket makes the eye seem tilted.
Stylised proportions are derived from realistic ones so the pointers can still be applied and deformed depending on the style. Even when the eyes are bigger, a structure that can be imagined in a 3D space should be established. This is the basis to make the eyes look 3-dimensional and imagine them from various angles.
Eyes from Different Angles
From other angles eyes might appear flat if drawn in a straight line. The front area of the face is a little bent and the eyes appear slanted.
The form of the eye changes when the pupil moves. Don’t be afraid to break up the eye shape to make it dynamic. The pupil moves on a sphere, not on a straight plane.
Especially when drawing eyes from a ¾ view it is important to imagine the spherical space they move on. Keep the thickness of the eyelids in mind. Stylised approaches might leave out some anatomical details, but the shape should still act like the realistic eye in order to achieve a 3-dimensional result.
When the head is turned away in semi profile you might only see the tip of the eyebrow and eyelash. Turning it more reveals there is no space between eye and eye bridge. This indicates a strong change of direction to where the head is facing before it turns into a full profile.
Expression
Imagining an eye mask can help to unify the features around the eyes so that they don’t just float on the face. The eye mask is also easier to imagine in different angles. Making the features work together helps to enhance the readability of the intended emotion.
Eyebrows are a very powerful tool to show emotions. Sometimes it can help to exaggerate the eyebrows even if it might stray away from a realistic approach. Bringing eyebrows down to the eyes makes a strong expression. The effect grows when the expression is preceded or succeeded by a contradictory movement to show the full range of squash and stretch.
Facial muscles are your best friend! Even just slightly indicating them can instantly strengthen the expression.
Pushing an expression even a little bit, by showing more squash or pushing the features, is what separates a lifeless copy of a photo and an expressive drawing.
Be careful about showing too much white around the pupils. Use it to show surprise, horror or danger. Inadequate use can easily lead to a crazy look that puts people off.
Eye shapes
Eyes have a broad variety of shapes. Avoid symmetry in order to make them less static and boring. Experiment with different placements of the peak of the eyelid, eye shape, eyebrows, eyelashes, and pupils. See eyes and eyebrows as a set to make them work together not separately. Men’s eyebrows are usually closer to the eye.
With age the eyes get droopier, and more and more wrinkles appear.
Take into consideration what you really need. Simple eyes might work better for animation or a style that is more based on movement. Illustration and close-ups might require a more detailed approach.
Personally, I try to avoid spending too much time on eyes so that I don’t forget the rest of the body. However, in an emotional drawing, giving special attention to the eyes might be a good idea.
It’s helpful to imagine the eyes as a closed shape even if you decide to leave gaps at the corners of the eyes. This makes it easier to indicate volume and draw the eyes at different angles.
Details
The cornea is a transparent lens covering the iris and pupil. It has an effect on the shape of the eye. Be careful with the position of the pupil from different angles.
Big pupils indicate looking at something far away or the eyes adjusting to a dark situation, among other things. Small pupils occur during bright light or looking at something from up close.
Colouring the eyes generally depends on the lighting situation and what style you want to go with. Consider these four basic steps. Making the white of the eye darker makes the highlights pop even more.
Sometimes it can be interesting to experiment with different colour accents and softer/harder edges for the iris.
I hope this tutorial was helpful.
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How to Draw Eyes
For this tutorial I have made a simple step by step tutorial that you can follow line by line and also a downloadable PDF with exercises to help you get tons of practice in. Make sure to grab the free worksheets below! 😀
Step 1. Upper Lid
Start the eye by drawing a steep incline followed by a flat line. Make the corner of these two lines slightly curved and organic. Use the diagram on the right to see what line we are adding through out this tutorial
Step 2. Lower Lid
Draw a curved line that starts at the top right side of the upper lid and curves downwards, this line starts to flatten out around the same height as the starting point of the previous line. You can connect these lines at the corner if you would like, I personally like how it looks when there is some space between the two.
Step 3. Semi-circle
Add a semi circle under the upper lid, in this drawing I am drawing the eye more to the right side but you can also move it towards the left if you want it looking in a slightly different direction.
Step 4. Eyelid Crease
Add a curved line above the first line we drew to add depth to the eye, this line shows where the eyes begin to protrude outward from the skull. This is why there tends to be a lot of shadow between this crease line and the brow line.
Step 5. Highlights
add two small circles in the semi circle we drew earlier. We are going to keep these two regions as the highlights of the eye, you can also play with the size and shape of these highlights if you want.
Step 6. Shade
Shade in the semicircle without filling in the highlight regions we defined in the previous step. Dont darken this area too much because we want the pupil to be the darkest part of the eyes.
Step 7. Add Eyelashes
Depending on how masculine or feminine you want the eyes to be, add some eyelashes. For more masculine features you can just darken the top lid to indicate that there are small hairs or add in some small eyelashes if you would like.
Step 8. Eyelashes + Darken
Fill in the eyelashes further by adding more curved lines & darken the line of the top lid to help define the eye further.
Step 9. Pupil
Draw a small circle within the semi circle and darken in the area to create the pupil of the eye. This should really help you drawing pop out of the page, I purposely made the highlight sit above the pupil because the contrast between the two creates a nice effect.
Step 10. Shading
Add some shading right underneath the top lid, this gives the eyes more depth because it shows that the top lid & eyelashes are casting a shadow. I also added some small shading lines around the eye to give the drawing more life.
Step 11. Eyebrows
Draw in the eyebrows, if you want a tutorial on how to draw eyebrows you can use the free worksheets below, I go over how to fill in the hairs for the eyebrows on page 3 of that PDF.
If you enjoyed this tutorial and want to practice drawing a variety of eye styles, consider grabbing the worksheets below. I create these worksheets to make the technical parts of drawing much easier to learn, we will do a lot of copying from example because its by far the best way to learn how to draw. I also have tons of free tutorials on the site that you can check out 😀
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How to Draw Cartoon Eyes
In this tutorial, we’ll discuss the basics of drawing cartoon eyes, how eyes work, and how you could use these concepts to develop and experiment with stylistic renditions of the eye.
For additional guidance, I recommend looking at live or photographic references, even if your goal is not to draw realistically or from life. A mirror can also be a great way to get a quick glance at proportions and how the face generally «works».
1. Understanding Cartoon Eye Basics
Step 1
Even when drawing stylistically, it is still important to note how the eye itself works. I like to think of this as a case of knowing the rules so you can effectively break them.
So, let’s start with the eyeball. Generally speaking, the eyeball is a spherical shape. Note, we are not necessarily talking about the eye as it normally looks on the human face—just the ball. Note the rounded surface here, indicated with some simple cross contours in pink.
Step 2
However, we obviously don’t normally look at eyes this way—without eyelids and independent of the face. Why, then, should we consider the eye’s shape?
Well, I like to think about the relationship between eyeballs and eyelids much like fabric on an object—eyelids wrap around the eye. They are not flat or straight on the eye. Instead, they’re rounded, going around the spherical shape of the eye. This premise is illustrated in blue, below.
Step 3
Take note of the upper and lower eyelid. The shape of the eyes and the eyelids will vary from person to person. Notice how the examples in blue, below, are not straight lines. They still keep the rounded nature of the eye’s surface in mind.
Step 4
The iris is the round shape in the eye that typically has color. The pupil is the dark, round shape inside the iris. It expands and contracts, typically in response to light. Humans have round pupils, but you may see other shapes in different animals. Cats, for example, have slit-like pupils.
Step 5
Generally speaking, eyes tend to be an equal distance apart, with about one eye’s distance in between. Again, this is in terms of realistic proportions—stylistic works may exaggerate these proportions.
Keep in mind, however, that «breaking the rules» can have mixed results! For example, larger eyes might turn out visually appealing, but eyes that don’t have a strong, visual relationship to each other could come off as unusual or visually awkward (unless that’s what you’re going for!).
Step 6
While we’ll focus on cartoon eyes, in this tutorial, it’s also important to note the eyebrows. The eyebrow typically falls above the eye socket, on or near the brow ridge. Like the eyes, the brows can come in different shapes and sizes.
Step 7
Take note of how these ideas affect the eyes when we change the angle in which we view the face. In three-fourths view, we see a little more of one eye than the other. In profile view, we primarily see one eye, but we see the eyelids from a different perspective.
2. How to Draw Simplified Cartoon Eyes
Step 1
Cartoon eyes typically have less detail than a realistic rendition of the eye. How, then, do you know which features to include and which ones to omit? How do you draw in a way that still looks like an eye, but isn’t true to realism?
Personally, I find that the key is keeping in mind how the eye works. Your viewer will have preconceived ideas about eyes, how they should look, and where they should be on the face.
Below are three different, stylized approaches to eyes. Notice that, even though they are quite different, they all visually «read» as eyes on the character’s face. We can break plenty of rules here without necessarily losing that communicative quality.
Step 2
Well, at the most simple, communicative level, viewers often associate eyes with two circles on the face. That’s often a key part of drawing from a stylistic perspective—finding the balance that you like between communication and proportion. There is no right or wrong answer on that!
This idea of communicating in symbols is sometimes a barrier to overcome when trying to draw from sight (i.e. drawing what you «see» versus what you «know»). For example, look at the image below. We all «know» that eyes don’t actually look like this in our day-to-day lives. However, we recognize this as an eye. We know that this symbol represents an idea.
Step 3
So, when drawing cartoon eyes, we can use both of these ideas—how the eye works and how to communicate this concept with the viewer. In fact, we can take these ideas and further use them to communicate things like emotions or even general character traits.
Here are some examples. The only difference between the two is the eyes. However, notice how the first example looks rather sad and innocent, while the second looks stern. Elements of art like scale and shape can help visually communicate concepts like this.
3. How to Draw Exaggerated Cartoon Eyes
Step 1
Personally, I love drawing large, stylized eyes. Doing so can bring additional emphasis to that part of the character or composition. It can also change how your work communicates. Generally speaking, cartoon eyes tend to take advantage of exaggeration for expressive or aesthetic reasons.
Here are some basic examples of how the eye could be exaggerated to create emphasis or to further craft a stylized aesthetic. I tried elongating the eyes, enlarging the eyes, and shrinking/minimizing them.
Step 2
Keep in mind that line, itself, can be quite communicative. For example, sharp or straight lines might convey a harshness, while flowing, curved lines could make for a much softer aesthetic. We can use this general idea to craft different aesthetic approaches to cartoon eyes.
Step 3
The iris is arguably one of the most important parts of the eye—it’s generally where we look when we’re looking someone in the eyes! Likewise, it’s how we know where someone is looking. Our eyes generally look at the same spot, together.
Here are some different examples of how one could exaggerate this part of the eye. Each of these examples is identical, with the only variation in the iris.
Step 4
Expressions are often exaggerated when drawing cartoon eyes, as well. As an example, let’s experiment with «surprised eyes».
I associate surprise with being «wide-eyed», so I’m going to start by putting emphasis on showing extra whites in the eyes. We could do this in a number of ways, like opening the eye wide or perhaps making the iris smaller. We can also use the eyelids and eyebrows to help push the emotion we’re trying to convey further.
Step 5
So, how do you know what aspects to exaggerate?
Personally, I think it depends a lot on pushing the qualities we know and recognize to effectively communicate.
For example, think about what your face does when you smile. Your facial muscles likely move, which could affect the appearance of the eyelids. On the other hand, sad eyes might be partially closed or even tensed, if they are filled with tears.
As we discussed earlier, keep in mind that the eyelids «wrap around» the eye. They stretch and move, just like the other parts of the face. These aspects can also be exaggerated!
4. Bringing It All Together
Step 1
Now, let’s take the information we’ve reviewed and bring it all together, step by step. We’ll work with three different examples here. Follow whichever you prefer, or use these concepts to develop and experiment with your own preferred aesthetic!
I normally like to think about expression before I start drawing. However, in the case of this example, we’ll start off with a neutral face.
First, start by laying out the basic proportions of the face. Remember, the eyes tend to be an equal distance apart. This is a good time to think about what aspects you’d like to exaggerate. Will you go with larger eyes? Smaller eyes?
Step 2
Again, the eyeball is round and sits inside the eye sockets—the eyelids go around and on top. This is why they are typically portrayed with a rounded shape. You don’t necessarily have to visually include the entire eyelid (if at all), but keep in mind how this part of the eye works.
Here, I’ve drawn the eyeball in blue and then placed simple, curved lines on top to indicate where I think I’d like the eyelids to go.
Step 3
Remember to consider which aspects you might like to omit. Perhaps you won’t include the bottom eyelid, or maybe you won’t differentiate between the iris and the pupil.
Freely experiment with this, but keep in mind that unless you’re drawing a character that breaks the rules, our goal is generally to associate with preconceived ideas and conventions. We want to visually communicate, strongly, that these are the character’s eyes.
Step 4
One of my favorite things about drawing cartoon eyes is the freedom to experiment with what you want to emphasize and exaggerate. Let’s try a few different directions one could potentially take with this.
On the left, I tried adding a spiral pattern inside the eye.
In the center, I went with some abstract shapes and a large circle reserved for light hitting the eyes.
Finally, on the right, I opted not to include the pupil. Instead, I cut a piece out of the iris.
Step 5
Let’s consider some finishing touches. Remember, we’re doing two things here: we are keeping in mind how the eye works, and we’re also keeping in mind that we can visually communicate the concept of «an eye».
So, for example, simple lines visually «make sense» to represent eyelashes, even if that’s not how they actually look. We can exaggerate them to push a pretty aesthetic.
I’ve applied the same concept to other aspects of the face here.
Step 6
As I mentioned earlier, I would normally take the expression into consideration from the very start. In this case, we worked with neutral expressions, just to experiment with the construction of the eyes.
However, let’s take a look at how some minor changes can alter how the face reads.
A happy face, for example, tends to be more than a smile. Note how keeping in mind the brows and eyelids can push the expression further.
Step 7
The same applies to other expressions, like sadness or anger.
And There You Have It!
We’ve looked at several approaches to drawing cartoon eyes. Good luck creating and experimenting with your own take on eyes—remember, when in doubt, reference is a great place to start, even when drawing stylistically. Happy drawing!
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There’s like, a billion eye painting tuts out there, but I just wrote one for Painter Magazine so I thought I’d post the steps.
Take a look at this visual step by step guides to drawing eyes. a few different lessons here.
Here is a beauitul eye with color illustration style. learn how to draw it too.
Some required explanation about the cartoon eyes & methods to draw them.
A tutorial at deviantart that shows how to draw different types of eyes.
The following is a step-by-step demonstration of how I draw eyes. While I very much hope that it helps you in drawing realistic eyes, do experiment and develop your own way of drawing.
The following animation covers drawing, painting, and shading of an eye, in realistic drawing style, from scratch.
A little Tutorial on how to draw an eye in five easy steps.