How to draw tears
How to draw tears
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We consist mostly of water. Apart from that we intake much water during the day, so there should be the ways of getting rid of it. We go to toilet, we sweat, but these are trifles compared to our ability to cry. Today we will learn how to draw tears.
Only human beings can cry. They cry and bulb, because they are weak creatures. They do not have enough willpower and they cry on every occasion while the animals are more resistant to stress. And we dare to call ourselves the superior race on our planet!
On the other hand, it is good to cry. For instance, there is evidence that tears can soothe us. If you think that the process of crying itself is relaxing, than you are wrong. In fact, tears rid the body of harmful stress hormones. And here is the result: after some crying you will feel much better. Besides tears help our eyes not to dry up. In addition, your eyesight improves after crying. This fact was approved by those who wear glasses.
But tears also have their bad side. Apart from showing you as a crybaby, the process of crying involves 43 facial muscles, while when laughing you use only 17. So you better laugh if you do not want to have wrinkles.
Reasons for tears:
So if you cry, let it be only from happiness. And don’t care about your eyes, let them dry up, but do not show others your weaknesses, as you will be treated as a weak person and will be less appreciated. If you need to cry, do it quietly and unnoticed.
How to Draw Tears
Learn how to draw a great looking Tears with easy, step-by-step drawing instructions, and video tutorial. You can now easily create a beautiful Tears drawing.
There are, in fact, three different types of tears. Our eyes constantly produce basal tears, which keep the eyes moist and inhibit infection. Reflex tears occur in response to a stimulus, such as when something gets in your eye, when you smell strong fumes, or eat spicy foods. This type of tear also forms when you cough or yawn. Finally, psychic tears are the kind shed in response to strong emotions.
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Each step of this tear-themed drawing guide includes a detailed illustration as well as explanatory text. Notice the light blue lines in each picture, as these indicate new lines to be added to your drawing. Also, if you have access to crayons, markers, colored pencils, or paints, you may wish to use these to shade your picture when complete.
If you liked this tutorial, see also the following drawing guides: Face, Lips, and Eyes.
Step-by-Step Instructions for Drawing Tears
1. Begin by drawing a curved line. Draw a second curved line, connected on one end at a sharp point and on the other using a short, straight line. Shade the shape. This will form the upper lid of the eye.
2. Repeat this process, forming a mirror image of the eyelid opposite the first. Again, draw two curved lines connected by a short, straight line, and shade the figure.
3. Draw several tiny triangles on the outside corner of each eye, and shade within them. These triangles indicate eyelashes. Draw a curved line below each eye. This will form the eye’s lower lid.
4. Enclose a circle within each eye, between the upper and lower lids. This forms the iris, or colored portion, of the eye.
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5. Extend a curved line from the inner side of each upper lid. Then, draw the eyebrows above the lids. For each brow, draw two curved lines, allowing the lines to meet in sharp points on each end. Then, draw a short, curved line beneath each brown, indicating the wrinkling of the brow caused by sad emotions.
6. Draw tears escaping from one eye. Using a long, curved line, enclose an irregular, elongated shape. Beneath this shape, enclose a smaller teardrop shape.
7. Draw tears escaping from the other eye. Again, draw an irregular, elongated shape using a long, curved line. Beneath this shape, enclose a couple of teardrop shapes.
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8. Draw more teardrops around the tears already drawn.
9. Draw a circle within each eye to form the eye’s pupil. Within the pupil, enclose two overlapping ovals of different sizes. Shade the pupil around the ovals. Then, to give the eyes a watery appearance, enclose circles of different sizes atop the white part of the eye.
Color Your Tears Drawing
10. Color your eyes, but don’t stop there. Check out our other tutorials, such as the nose, mouth, ears, and hair, and learn to complete your drawing of a crying face.
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How to Draw Tears
Table of Contents:
Start Drawing Realistic Tears
From the Renaissance devotional images, such as Dieric Bouts «Weeping Madonna», to Gustav Klimt’s «Freya’s Tears» of Gold, to Roy Lichtenstein’s pop art works that include women crying, artists have been portraying the tears of their subjects for generations. Tears help tell the story of the painting, convey sorrow and heavy emotion, and also bring tears to the eyes of the viewer. They are an important element you may wish to add to your paintings, making it well worth your time to master the art of drawing them.
Whether you’re drawing manga characters or portraits, it’s important to show a range of emotions. Facial expressions are crucial to making your characters come alive and that includes showing them crying. Tears can also be added if you want your character to weep tears of joy. To enhance whatever emotion you’re trying to convey, tears should look as real as possible. This is easier than you might think! To get you started and show you the process of drawing tears, we’ve created this short drawing tutorial.
Also, since tears are transparent and reflect the light, you’ll see that once you learn how to draw them you can apply some of the techniques shown here to creating raindrops, condensation, and any kind of dripping water.
Let’s get started!
List of Supplies
Easy Drawing Tears Tutorial
For this lesson in how to draw tears, our artist used Arteza Colored Pencils. They are highly pigmented and offer strong and vibrant colors. Their triangle-shaped barrel makes them really comfortable to use and they won’t roll off your desk or worktable. We also recommend you use one of Arteza’s drawing pads, these handy pads contain paper that’s the perfect weight for color pencil drawings. The spiral binding keeps your drawings clean and protected.
Step 1
You may think that tears are small separate drops, but in reality, as tears come out of our eyes, they slide down the face. To make your drawing look accurate, you’ll want to capture that shape. You can achieve this by starting with an elongated and rounded shape that will be the tear rolling down the face. Next, add a few more irregular shapes beside it to represent the stray droplets of the tear. You can do this using the A012 pencil and applying very little pressure to create light lines.
Step 2
Tears reflect the light; therefore, you should draw a few circular shapes within the initial shapes to create the areas where the light will be highlighted. It’s also a good idea to draw a shape along the bottom of the tear that will become the tear’s shadow.
Step 3
For this demonstration, the light is shining along the right side of the tear, so you should add some lines to indicate where the shadows will be on the left side. Once color is added, you’ll see that these shadowed areas will give the tear dimension and volume.
Step 4
It’s time to start adding color! Use A086 to give the illusion of water. Be careful to color around the areas where there will be the highlights, as these areas won’t have any color and will make the tear appear to be transparent. Now, it’s time to color the shadows. Use A047 for those areas.
Step 5
Continue to darken the shadows slowly to give the tear a more three-dimensional look. Make the areas closest to the tear darker and work your way outward, lightening the shadow as you go. Also darken the blue areas and blend some of the gray on the top of the tear with the blue. Add a bit of A088 on top of the large teardrop. This touch of purple adds more dimension to the reflective quality of the tear. As you can see, the more contrast you have between the colors the better.
Step 6
Keep darkening the shadow areas (keeping the darkest parts closest to the tear) as well as the blue along the sides where little or no light would be shining. You can also add more purple and continue to blend it into the blue. You’ll see that the beauty of color pencils comes through layering your colors. To enhance the contrast between the tear and the skin, add a warm shade with A110.
There you have it! This tear looks real, right?
Recommendations
Whether you’re drawing an anime character or a human face, adding tears will instantly convey what they’re feeling. You can show so many emotions besides sadness by adding tears, such as extreme exertion, uproarious laughter, and the misty eyes of someone in love. We know that once you get the hang of drawing tears, you’ll want to add them again and again. Plus, the more you practice tear drawing the better you’ll get! We hope this tear drawing tutorial has helped and we would love to hear all about it. So, please leave a comment below, and make sure to tag us on social media, and add the hashtag #Arteza.
How to Draw Tears
Table of Contents:
Start Drawing Realistic Tears
From the Renaissance devotional images, such as Dieric Bouts’ «Weeping Madonna», to Gustav Klimt’s «Freya’s Tears» of gold, to Roy Lichtenstein’s pop art works that include women crying, artists have been portraying the tears of their subjects for generations. Tears help tell the story of the painting, convey sorrow and heavy emotion, and also bring tears to the eyes of the viewer. They are an important element you may wish to add to your paintings, making it well worth your time to master the art of drawing them.
Whether you’re drawing manga characters or portraits, it’s important to show a range of emotions. Facial expressions are crucial to making your characters come alive and that includes showing them crying. Tears can also be added if you want your character to weep tears of joy. To enhance whatever emotion you’re trying to convey, tears should look as real as possible. This is easier than you might think! To get you started and show you the process of drawing tears, we’ve created this short drawing tutorial.
Also, since tears are transparent and reflect the light, you’ll see that once you learn how to draw them you can apply some of the techniques shown here to creating raindrops, condensation, and any kind of dripping water.
Let’s get started!
List of Supplies
Easy Drawing Tears Tutorial
For this lesson in how to draw tears, our artist used Arteza Coloured Pencils. They are highly pigmented and offer strong and vibrant colours. Their triangle-shaped barrel makes them really comfortable to use and they won’t roll off your desk or worktable. We also recommend you use one of Arteza’s drawing pads, these handy pads contain paper that’s the perfect weight for colour pencil drawings. The spiral binding keeps your drawings clean and protected.
Step 1
You may think that tears are small separate drops, but in reality, as tears come out of our eyes, they slide down the face. To make your drawing look accurate, you’ll want to capture that shape. You can achieve this by starting with an elongated and rounded shape that will be the tear rolling down the face. Next, add a few more irregular shapes beside it to represent the stray droplets of the tear. You can do this using the A012 pencil and applying very little pressure to create light lines.
Step 2
Tears reflect the light; therefore, you should draw a few circular shapes within the initial shapes to create the areas where the light will be highlighted. It’s also a good idea to draw a shape along the bottom of the tear that will become the tear’s shadow.
Step 3
For this demonstration, the light is shining along the right side of the tear, so you should add some lines to indicate where the shadows will be on the left side. Once colour is added, you’ll see that these shadowed areas will give the tear dimension and volume.
Step 4
It’s time to start adding colour! Use A086 to give the illusion of water. Be careful to colour around the areas where there will be the highlights, as these areas won’t have any colour and will make the tear appear to be transparent. Now, it’s time to colour the shadows. Use A047 for those areas.
Step 5
Continue to darken the shadows slowly to give the tear a more three-dimensional look. Make the areas closest to the tear darker and work your way outward, lightening the shadow as you go. Also darken the blue areas and blend some of the grey on the top of the tear with the blue. Add a bit of A088 on top of the large teardrop. This touch of purple adds more dimension to the reflective quality of the tear. As you can see, the more contrast you have between the colours the better.
Step 6
Keep darkening the shadow areas (keeping the darkest parts closest to the tear) as well as the blue along the sides where little or no light would be shining. You can also add more purple and continue to blend it into the blue. You’ll see that the beauty of colour pencils comes through layering your colours. To enhance the contrast between the tear and the skin, add a warm shade with A110.
There you have it! This tear looks real, right?
Recommendations
Whether you’re drawing an anime character or a human face, adding tears will instantly convey what they’re feeling. You can show so many emotions besides sadness by adding tears, such as extreme exertion, uproarious laughter, and the misty eyes of someone in love. We know that once you get the hang of drawing tears, you’ll want to add them again and again. Plus, the more you practice tear drawing the better you’ll get! We hope this tear drawing tutorial has helped and we would love to hear all about it. So, please leave a comment below, and make sure to tag us on social media, and add the hashtag #Arteza.
4 Ways to Draw Crying Anime Eyes
This tutorial explains how to draw crying anime and manga eyes in four different variations as well as how to place anime eyes on the head. It also has some basic example of drawing a crying face overall but the main focus is on the eyes.
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First of all to draw crying eyes properly it is important to draw the whole head. A large part of it will be drawing the tears that are running down the face. Therefore this tutorial has some overlapping information from some of the tutorials listed above.
For drawing different types of anime heads you can see:
Drawing Anime and Manga Style Eyes on the Head
The placement of anime eyes on the head can vary depending on style. One good way to place anime eyes on the head is to draw the overall shape of the head and draw a horizontal line directly through the middle of it. Draw the eyes directly below this line.
The eyes should be far enough apart so that you can place a third eye in the middle.
Drawing Tearing Up Anime & Manga Eyes
When you are drawing an anime character that is staring to cry draw the eyes squinted. Draw the bottom eyelashes/eyelids curved inwards and slightly lowered towards the outer part of the eye. Draw the top eyelashes/eyelids less curved than normal and also slightly lowered towards the outer part of the eye. Draw the eyebrows in a slight upside down curve with the inner part of the eyebrows raised and the outer part lowered.
Finally draw small tear drops at the tear ducts towards the inner parts of the eyes.
Drawing Anime & Manga Eyes With Tears
Use the same directions as the previous example but draw the tears covering the entire bottom part of each eye. Make their outlining shapes sort of hang off of the edges of the bottom eyelids. Like they are about to spill out.
Drawing Crying Anime & Manga Eyes
Again use the same directions as in the first example but draw the eyes slightly more squinted and draw the eyebrows slightly closer together.
Draw the tears coming out of the outer side of the eyes running down the cheek (in a traditional anime fashion). Be sure to draw the stream of tears in a slight curve as they will be “hugging” the shape of the face. Draw some tears coming from the inner parts of the eye as well but don’t draw these running all the way down (to make the drawing look more natural).
Drawing Bawling Anime Eyes
For bawling really upset eyes draw them fully closed in upside down curve (really you are just drawing the eyelashes). Draw the eyebrows further down even closer together than the previous examples. You can also draw a few wrinkles to emphasize that the eyebrows are really squeezed together.
Draw the tears in the same pattern as the previous example but further down the face (you can experiment). You can also add a few tear drops falling down near the chin (the tears will roll down the face and gather at the bottom).
Conclusion
Drawing crying anime eye and tears is not all that complicated as tears can run down in a variety of patters. But having some references certainly helps. If we were to combine these examples we could almost have a mini animation of an anime character going from starting to cry to all out bawling.
For more tutorials on drawing different types of anime and manga style emotions you can see: