Eye. Without a doubt, this is a favorite subject of many artists! Human eye- This is undoubtedly a window into the human soul. But how to portray it?
To learn to draw eyes, first I will ask you to take a small mirror. I want you to keep this mirror next to you while you draw. I want you to be able to look at your own eyes at any time while you work through this lesson.
Mark Kistler learned this technique from a visit to DreamWorks with some alumni a few years ago. The animators were working on Shrek, and their work stations included several computers, monitors, drawing tablets, and, interestingly, two mirrors on either side of their desks. While the animators were working on various parts“Shrek,” he could watch them frown in the mirrors as they drew Shrek’s frowning face. Mark saw them holding hands different positions when drawing Shrek's hands. It was very interesting to see how world class artists brought Shrek to life. Now let's add life to your album - let's draw an eye.
1. While sitting at the table, look in the mirror. Stay for a few minutes...You are simply a miracle. Just take a look! These eyes! These lips, nose, ears, hair are just a great model to draw. You redrew Da Vinci in , and now you will copy from the most ideal eye model on the planet - yourself! Lightly trace the shape of the eye. In this tutorial we will draw an eye that resembles the shape of a lemon, with a small tear duct. When you draw a lot of eyes (and you will undoubtedly draw more than a hundred of them, because they are so fun to draw), you will notice how many various forms eyes of people on the planet. In this tutorial we use simple form lemon.
2. Look in the mirror and examine your left upper eyelid. Notice how the folds follow the shape of the eye. Draw the upper eyelid starting from the inner corner of the eye.
3. Draw a perfectly round circle of the iris, bending it slightly under the upper eyelid. We use the law of overlap. Remember that the iris is a perfect circle, not an oval. Look in the mirror. Look closely at the thickness of the edge along the top of the lower eyelid. The interesting thing is that the smallest details, like this one, what you are looking for and drawing. These details really give the "wow" factor. Without them, your drawing will look unrealistic.
4. Look in the mirror. Look closer at the pupil in the center of the iris. Notice the perfect circumference of the circle. Notice the tiny flecks of highlights within the black circle. Draw a perfect round pupil in the middle of the iris. Draw a small circle inside for the highlight.
5. Look in the mirror. Take a closer look at your pupil again. Look at the black pupil and the light highlight. Draw this dark black pupil with a light highlight.
6. Look in the mirror. Look closely at the surface of the iris around the pupil. Take a closer look. And further. Just an amazing play of light, color, humidity, shape, such details! When you fill in the iris, make radial pencil strokes from the pupil and use lines of varying lengths, some short, some long. As you experiment with colored pencils, I would recommend you start with this tutorial.
7. Draw in your gorgeous eyebrow. Shape each hair separately, starting from the bridge of the nose and moving across the forehead. Moving away from the nose, draw more horizontal, fluttering lines. Start shading your eyes inside century
8. Look in the mirror. Take a close look at your eyelashes. Notice how your lashes are grouped in small groups of two or three rather than just one lash. Notice how the groups of eyelashes originate from the nearest edge of the upper eyelid. Notice how your eyelashes curl away from your eyelid, following the contour of your eye. Also pay attention to the location. Make sure you draw them on the very edge of the eyelid. Pay attention to the direction in which the eyelashes curl. Be careful not to draw too many eyelashes, and also not to draw them too vertically (otherwise you may end up with a "spider web" effect).
Next step - shading. This step makes the eye really appear on the page! There are five specific areas for shading. The first one is right above yours upper eyelid, the entire length of the eyeball. The next area is along the lower eyelid, above the aqueous line, directly on the eyeball. Shade lightly to begin with, then you can create a darker effect (if you shade too much, it will look like a very heavy gothic makeup, but maybe that's what you're going for?). The third area is the small crease at the top of your eyelids, the line that separates your movable eyelid from your upper fixed eyelid. The fourth area is the lower part of the eye socket, which is darker in the central corner near the nose and tear duct. This shadow is shaded and falls on the cheek.
Just as Leonardo da Vinci used shading when he outlined the eyes of the Mona Lisa without hard dark lines, you should also use a very soft shading when shading the 3D eye. Make sure to shade and blend the fifth shading zone - the tiny "secret" shadows in the corners of the eye socket and eyelids.
LESSON 29: PRACTICAL TASK
I like draw eyes. The more you draw them, the more you enjoy them. Eyes are the most important element in drawing the face of a person, animal or magical creature. Draw a few more eyes in your sketchbook, a few by looking at yourself in the mirror, a few by watching tutorials on YouTube. There are incredible amateur lessons, which you can enjoy.
Hello, dear friends!
Today we have a very interesting and important topic, we will learn how to draw a human eye. The eyes, as we know, are the mirror of the soul, the most eloquent and attractive part of a person’s face.
Structure
First, let's define the terminology, and to do this, let's look at the general simplified structure of the eye:
This diagram is not for studying anatomy, but for understanding the drawing technique; all the most important parts are indicated here.
How to draw an eye
Stages of creating a pencil sketch
At the beginning of the lesson, let's just try to make an easy sketch, step by step. We use a pencil. 
Now we will not delve into the nuances and features of the structure of the eyes.
How to draw eyes with a pencil:
- We indicate the shape of the eye by enclosing it within the frame of an angular figure. We will also show the folds above the upper and lower eyelids.
- We will refine the shape, make the lines smoother, and smooth out the corners. We outline the eyebrow, pupil and iris. Let us lightly indicate the thickness of the eyelid and the tear duct.
- We clarify the thickness of the eyelids, indicate the highlight on the iris, shade the dark pupil, and easily show the shadow under the upper eyelid on the sclera. Let's clarify the eyebrow a little.
- We add color and pattern to the iris, opposite the glare, a reflex light spot is formed on the iris. Add shadows to the round shape of the eyeball. Using strokes we shade the upper eyelid, highlight and clarify the fold above it.
- We detail it, clarify shadows and light, add eyelashes.
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Form
The eyeball is shaped like a ball, which is attached inside the eye socket. We see only part of this ball, covered by eyelids. When drawing an eye using any technique, you need to remember and understand that we show light and shadow in a spherical shape. 
The eyes covered by the eyelids are almond-shaped; this nut is most suitable for comparison. Essentially, the eye is an oval with a pointed outer corner and a rounded inner corner. This oval, like an almond nut, is not symmetrical, this is their main similarity. Look, if you divide the eye with a horizontal line and find the widest place in the upper and lower parts, then we will see that these points are in different parts of the oval. 
In the upper part, the highest point will be closer to the lacrimal gland, and in the lower part - to the outer corner.
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Eyelids
The eyelids are not flat, they have a quite noticeable thickness, enveloping the rounded shape of the eyeball. If you look at the face in profile, the thickness of the eyelids is clearly visible. The lower eyelid is set deeper than the upper.
thickness is indicated in orange
The upper eyelid and eyelashes cast a shadow on the eyeball.
Eyeball without eye shadow and with shadow
The thickness of the lower eyelid is lighter than the upper eyelid because this part receives more light.
Fold
There is always a fold of skin above the upper eyelid that covers part of it. U different people this fold is formed in different ways, sometimes it hangs over the inner or outer part of the eye, and in Asians it completely covers the tear duct and the entire upper eyelid. 
The direction and shape of this fold will help you draw the eyes more correctly and accurately. 
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In the inner corner of the eye there is a lacrimal caruncle - an elongated convex semi-oval. There is no special attention or any nuances in the image of this part of the eye, but without a teardrop, your drawing will look implausible. You can indicate it with a slight hint, or you can draw it down to details and veins, depending on the task at hand, but in no case do not forget about this important part of the eyes.
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Pupil and iris
The direction of gaze can be determined by the position of the pupil, and with it the iris. The pupil is a perfect dark circle; it is always located in the center of the iris circle.
In a calm position, the eyelids cover about 30 percent of the iris, and sometimes part of the pupil.
- To show wide eyes, open most of the iris (more than 30%) or draw it completely.
- Closed, squinted eyelids reveal only a small part of the iris and pupil.
If we take a closer look at the eye in profile, we will see that:
The iris has a convex shape, similar to a bowl. The pupil is a completely flat black spot inside, it has no volume.
The illustration shows what the eye looks like in profile, the shape of the iris and the pupil. If you wear contact lenses, you understand perfectly well what this means. we're talking about. Don't draw the pupil at the edge of the iris.
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Glare and reflex
The glare will fall in a rounded shape, opposite the glare a reflex will form - a spot of scattered light. The glare is formed on the side where the light falls, and the reflex is on the opposite side.
Green indicates glare, and orange indicates reflex.
Eyelashes
A beautiful, expressive eye can be depicted without eyelashes, although it will be a little unnatural. Eyelashes are a detail that needs to be added at the very end of the work, when everything is ready and looks quite decent without them.
Let's see how it is and how not to outline eyelashes. 
Eyelashes are thick; at the base of the eyelid it is more noticeable than at the tips. Eyelashes have different lengths, and short ones are located next to the long eyelash. Naturally, for different people they come in different lengths and thicknesses, curled up or directed straight. If you want to highlight the eyelashes, don't draw them the same length and thickness.
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Directions and landmarks
Superciliary ridges and eyebrows protect our organ of vision from various external stimuli, so they always rise above the eye, which is located in the depths. 
The eyebrow is always located above the eye, moving forward. The lower eyelid is slightly deeper than the upper. These directions must be followed, they are shown in red lines in the picture.
Proportions relative to the head
It is important not only to show the eyes beautifully, but also to place them correctly, observing the basic proportions of the person’s head.
We have already studied many rules in the previous lesson: how to draw a face. For example, how to find the eye line and determine their size.
How to draw human eyes:
The line of the eyes is in the middle of the head, the wings of the nose are on the same vertical axis with the teardrops
- To correctly place the eyes, draw a horizontal axis in the center of the head.
- The inner corners of the eyes are always on the same vertical line with wings of the nose, no closer and no further (second part of the illustration).
This is quite a difficult lesson, so it may take you quite a lot of effort to repeat it. If you didn’t succeed in drawing the eyes the first time, don’t despair and try again. Try your best to complete this lesson. If it still doesn’t work out, you can try to complete the lesson “”. But I believe that you will succeed.
What you will need
Please note that this technology lesson and it can be done either in pencil on paper or in a graphics program.
In order to draw the eyes we may need:
- Paper. It is better to take medium-grain special paper: beginning artists will find it much more pleasant to draw on this kind of paper.
- Sharpened pencils. I advise you to take several degrees of hardness, each should be used for different purposes.
- Eraser.
- Stick for rubbing hatching. You can use plain paper rolled into a cone. It will be easy for her to rub the shading, turning it into a monotonous color.
- Graphic editor GIMP. You need to download GIMP for Win or Mac OS and install it.
- Download brushes for GIMP, they may come in handy.
- Some add-ons may be needed (instructions on how to install them).
- You need Photoshop program.
- A little patience.
- Good mood.
Step by step lesson
Different parts of the human body and organs should be drawn with a certain degree of realism. Academic drawing requires this. Also, he strongly recommends drawing eyes from life or, in extreme cases, from a photograph. This is the only way to achieve high realism and elaboration.
By the way, in addition to this lesson, I advise you to pay attention to the lesson “”. It will help improve your skill or just give you a little fun.
All complex drawings must be created through forward thinking and vision. The subject must be more than just a form on a sheet of paper. You must draw it three-dimensionally, that is, creating it from simple geometric bodies as if they were on top of each other: here is a ball on a cube, and here are two balls next to each other. All living and non-living things on earth consist of these primitive forms.
Tip: create a sketch with as thin strokes as possible. The thicker the sketch strokes are, the more difficult it will be to erase them later.
The first step, or rather the zero step, is always to mark a sheet of paper. This will let you know where exactly the drawing will be located. If you place the drawing on half of the sheet, you can use the other half for another drawing. Here is an example of marking a sheet in the center:
A person’s eyes are the mirror of his soul, and the site already has lessons on drawing eyes, but they are more focused on “take and repeat” practice and do not carry any theory, and there is quite a lot of theory, so I decided to translate and put together a couple of foreign lessons.
In addition to theory, there is also practice that will help you get better. You need to draw either with a pencil on paper or using graphics tablet. Unfortunately, a mouse will not work here.
First of all, you need to refer to the plastanatomy of the eye - the drawing and terminology are above, use it. It is important for an artist to understand a few basic things about the human eye.
Firstly, the eyes are based on. The eye is spherical in shape. When drawing an eye, you need to take this into account, creating the desired volume when constructing.
Secondly, depending on various factors, such as the depth of the eye socket, the presence of fatty tissue in it, hypo- and hyperfunction of the thyroid gland - the eyeball can lie at different depths. That is, the eye can be bulging, “toad-like,” or it can be located deep in the orbital cavity, shaded by the supraorbital edge. In addition, the more loose adipose tissue around the eyes, the less clearly the border of the eye will be read. And on the contrary - at thin man this boundary will be clearly defined.
Third. The eyelid is not a flat fold of skin. Along its ciliary edge it has a cartilaginous base. Accordingly, when drawing an eye, you should not depict the eyelids as having no volume.
Fourthly and lastly. The line of the eyes, its position is absolutely individual for all people. Not always internal corner the eyes are located lower than the outer ones. It may be completely the other way around, or the corners may be at the same level.
So, a start has been made. To all of the above, we can add that the lacrimal glands always keep our eyes moist, shiny, and alive. We must remember to emphasize this when depicting a living person, and omit it when drawing sculptures.
Something like this. Let's continue. As already mentioned, the eye is a ball. Let's build on this and build it on the sheet.
Let's imagine our eye in the form of an orange. The orange peel is the eyelids. If you cut the peel into the shape of an orange slice, you get an analogy to the structure of the eye. The peel is the thickness of the eyelids with their curve, and the fruit itself is the eyeball. There is only one more detail - the cornea. The transparent membrane that contains the iris and pupil. Look at the picture above - a third of the cornea is under the upper eyelid. Therefore, the central part of the edge of the upper eyelid will protrude slightly forward. The lower eyelid barely touches the cornea, or does not touch it at all and remains at the same level.
Meanwhile, this is not all; there are still a large number of features in the outline of the eye. Including the brow ridges, protrusions, eyebrows, glabella, its shape. Each element needs to be paid attention to. It is necessary to carefully monitor the relief of the eye, taking into account future reductions.
Here again we cannot do without enumeration.
It is necessary to determine and mark the line(s) of the brow ridges. Horizontally, it runs downwards, obliquely in the outer edge of the orbital socket, while moving backwards, leaving the border of the transition of planes in the area of the temporal part. You need to remember and pay attention to the protrusions located on the glabella and in the eyebrow area. These protrusions also need to be outlined, because in plastic surgery of the eye shape, in addition to the eye itself, the supraorbital and superciliary arches play a large role.
After marking the brow ridges, you can try to determine the cut lines of the eyes. The bridge of the nose is located above the lacrimal tubercles, at the level of the upper eyelids or slightly above, but not below.
Starting with the line of the eye incision, guide yourself along the bridge of the nose, placing the tear ducts on this line, and placing the corners of the eyes near it, or just above/slightly below the tear tubercles.
Having outlined the shape of the eye, determine the fit of the eyeball and pupil. After determining the size and shape of the eyeball, you can draw the eyelids. The eyelid should fit the shape of the eyeball, while taking into account the thickness of the eyelids themselves and the nature of the bend. Remember - you need to show the thickness of the eyelid in perspective reduction
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The nature of the eye shape. Its shape, like the shape of other elements, greatly depends on the nationality and individual characteristics of a person. And yet, the eyes have a common structure for all. See the picture above. When depicting an eye in linear diagram it is clear that when viewed from the front, the eye looks like a parallelogram; in profile, the eye has triangular shape, and in the three-quarter position - a rectangular trapezoid.
In a linear form, the wider the eye section, the more distal the corners of the eyes are located relative to each other, thereby widening the eyelids. Picture above.
The teardrop is shaped like a head and plays an important role in plasticity. Its tip is directed not along the eye line, but slightly downward. At the same time, it forms a barely noticeable angle in the upper part, moving to the upper corner of the bend of the eyelids. The lower part of the lacrimal tubercle is directed almost horizontally, forming an even less noticeable angle, then smoothly bending upward towards the outer corner of the eye.
You also cannot help but notice the difference in size. The upper half is noticeably larger than the lower - because the upper eyelid has a greater curve than the lower.
As a practice, I suggest you copy the two drawings above. They represent the eyes of the plaster head of David. A simple, non-living form. Laconic and dry, which is easy to understand and quite simple to depict.
When drawing the eye, make sure that its surface should be inclined relative to the vertical - the upper eyelid and the central part of the cornea protrude forward, while the lower edge of the cornea and the lower eyelid are deeper.
When drawing eyelids, the upper one should be highlighted, the lower one should be lightly outlined.
It is very useful to better understand the structure and shape of the eye to draw with a living model. For example, looking in the mirror, draw your own eyes. Try to build on the shape of the eyeball and cornea, rather than copying the visible surface.
From words to deeds. Try copying the following pictures. They will help you understand how to draw the human eye correctly.
Your hand needs to feel everything on its own. The eye, turning in space, tends to contract. Accordingly, we can train according to the following scheme: we draw a schematic diagram of the eye. We choose a random point of view and try to draw what we get. That is, a prospective reduction.
That's all. When copying, try to make the eyes emotional and alive. When painting the entire head of a person, his portrait, you will have to convey the mood of the eyes, drawing them taking into account the environment and lighting. Many times the eyes will appear dead and blurry. Well, nothing - experience and more experience. Over time you will be able to draw eyes better.
Side view
Front. Despite the fact that the drawing is very drawn, it is convenient to copy it
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So you learned how to draw eyes, I hope it was interesting and informative. Now you can pay attention to the lesson “” - it is just as interesting and exciting. Share the lesson on in social networks and show your results to your friends.
Many aspiring artists strive most to draw human faces. This is understandable: the face is the most important aesthetic component of the body, and orders for portraits are received much more often than, say, for images of feet.
If you have already more or less studied the general structure of the human head, initial construction and the basics of chiaroscuro, you can begin to master the details. The most expressive part of the face is, without a doubt, the eyes - it is these that we will learn to draw today.
So let's get started!
First sketch out the outline of your eye. Designate general shape, outline the tear duct and eyelid.
Then draw the outlines of the iris and pupil, then outline the outline of the highlights and lightly shade the iris, avoiding the intended highlights.
In the next step, shade the pupil (make it darker immediately to separate it from the iris). Start drawing the veins on the iris, and also draw a falling shadow from the upper eyelid. Do not press too hard on the pencil so that you can gradually build up the tone in the right places.
Draw the veins on the iris more carefully, work out the shadows above the upper eyelid, and also draw a shadow under the lower one. Use a thin edge of the cut elastic around the eye: on this light line we will draw the eyelashes.
Draw eyelashes - and the drawing will immediately take on a completely different look. The upper eyelashes cross, forming “triangles”. The lower eyelashes are usually much thinner, shorter and sparser than the upper ones. It would also be useful to work out the texture of the iris in more detail: apply dark spots and strokes, and gently erase tiny light areas.
It remains to work on the details. Strengthen all dark places: the pupil, the contour of the iris (its upper border is in the shadow, therefore darker), the lower border of the upper eyelashes. The shadows above the upper and lower eyelids also need to be made a little darker. Pay attention to the highlights: they should be as light as possible. Add volume to the eyeball by slightly enhancing the shadows and highlights.
Eyes are not only the most expressive part of the face, but also an amazing mirror of the human soul.
Most often, a person can be recognized by his eyes. And in order to be able to do this using a portrait, you need to know how to draw eyes. Beginning artists often make mistakes when drawing eyes. You can draw realistic eyes or depict them. Various artists offer various options About, how to draw eyes with a pencil. However, they all adhere to a certain sequence.
Eye location
First of all, you must position the eyes correctly on the piece of paper. To do this, draw a horizontal line across the sheet.
Do not press hard on the tool, because this will be an auxiliary line that will need to be removed later. Following the line, draw an almond-shaped eye so that on one side the lines taper downwards.
Distance between eyes
It is important to remember the distance between the eyes. It is generally accepted that it is equal to one more eye. Therefore, you can measure or draw a light line on the auxiliary eye in the middle, position the second eye, and then remove the auxiliary eye with an eraser.
Eyeball
The next step is the eyeball.
First, delete the horizontal guide line that you drew at the very beginning. Draw a circle inside the eye shapes. Remember that the diameter of the eyeball should be equal to the width of the eye. But you need to position it in such a way that there is a small space left next to the lower eyelid, and the top of the circle extends slightly beyond the upper eyelid.
Tear ducts
No realistically depicted eye would be complete without tear ducts.
Therefore, you need to depict them by drawing a line in the place where the eyes approach the bridge of the nose.
Borders of the century
In order to make the eyes more natural, you need to draw the boundaries of the eyelids, that is, show their thickness.
This applies to the lower eyelid, so you will need to draw along it. Draw a border running from the tear duct along the lower eyelid to the outer corner of the eye. Your line should go under the eyeball, but not touch it.
Pupil
Let's draw a smaller circle, which we will place inside the previously drawn eyeball.
It will serve as a boundary separating the iris and the darkest part of the eye, the black pupil. Also remember to draw an arc for the upper eyelid that should go around the upper border of the previously drawn eyeball, but not touch it.
Erase extra lines
In order for the eyes to look natural, you need to remove the upper part of the large circle, which extends beyond the upper eyelid and almost touches its borders.
As a result, it turns out that the iris of the eye is slightly covered by the upper eyelid.
It's time to highlight the drawn eyes. To do this, make the upper eyelid more expressive by making its line bolder. The upper border of the eyelid is also worth highlighting, but not as much as the eyelid itself, which is in contact with the iris of the eye.
Iris
The iris of the eye also requires special attention.
There are no identical eyes in nature. Each pair of eyes has its own unique pattern. You also need to draw a design on the iris of the eyes you drew. Draw the rays that come from the very depths of the soul, that is, from the black pupil, and tend to the edges of the iris, the upper part of which should be slightly darkened.
Glare
In any case, when we draw eyes, we must understand that they have a glossy surface, which means they reflect the light that falls from one side.
As a result, part of the iris appears lighter to us, and some part is completely white. To reflect this on paper, use an eraser and lightly touch the bottom of the iris, thus adding the necessary highlight. The same must be done with the shadows around the eyes, the upper eyelid and the tear duct.
