Eye drawing lessons. How to draw a realistic eye in Photoshop

We all love to draw something when we're bored. One draws squares at a meeting, the other draws beautiful flowers while waiting phone call. And there are real peephole fanatics. Large and small, children's and women's, beautiful and simple, from two lines and one circle - almost all the pieces of paper on their table are drawn with such eyes. Without any tests or fortune tellers, it is immediately clear that we have a visual person in front of us.

“The eyes are the mirror of the soul” - any visual person will confidently support this phrase. We, people with a visual vector, are sure that by looking at the eyes you can learn absolutely EVERYTHING about a person. "Smart" psychological sites claim that strict people are born with blue eyes, while green eyes are born. romantic natures, and black ones - of course, witches. Life contradicts this real world shows that good people The people we meet have different eye colors, just like the evil ones. And although we so want to believe that the eyes are the mirror of the soul, in reality everything is completely different. Or rather, so, but only partly - the rule applies only to visual people. With everyone else, you can’t tell absolutely anything from their eyes.

There is nothing wrong with the obsessive desire to draw eyes. In life, we, the audience, are very emotional. We constantly want to communicate with people, look into their eyes, experience feelings. But this is not always possible - you have to do something on your own, without people. Then the hand automatically reaches for a pencil or pen - and an eye, or a pair of eyes, appears. On paper. Drawn, not alive, but as a replacement, it will do.

If we type the word “eye” into a search engine and switch to picture mode, we will enjoy a huge number of eyes, different types and caliber. Photographed, drawn and even fantastic.

Viewers are ready to watch some of them for more than one minute - as if under hypnosis, we are enchanted by this beauty.

Of course, I would like to learn how to draw beautiful eyes myself. Ideally, in a huge variety. When we feel sad in our souls - sad or tear-stained eyes, when we are in love - eyes full of feelings, etc.

But not everyone did well in art classes at school, so they are often upset that they don’t have eyes that convey emotions. Or at least just beautiful.

In this article we will not teach you how to draw eyes like those in the graffiti below, but a couple simple tips, will allow you not just to draw eyes and be afraid that someone will see them, but to proudly display your drawings for everyone to see. So below you will find a simple tutorial.

How to learn to draw eyes

Like any real artist, start with the main thing - think about what you will draw with and on what. To give yourself real pleasure, buy yourself a couple of sheets of good specialty paper and professional pencil(best in a specialty store for artists). You can also buy colored paper and crayons or charcoal - for subsequent work, when you learn to draw beautifully.

It's best to start practicing drawing beautiful eyes, copying them from photographs or illustrations. Take any fashion magazine and find a portrait of a girl, for example, where the face takes up almost the entire page. Spare some paper and cut out an eye from a magazine. Place a piece of the picture directly on the sheet where you will draw. This will allow you to comply perfect proportion. And although this will be just a redrawing, at the end of the work you will be surprised at how talented you are at drawing eyes.

So, observing the proportions, easily outline the contours of the eye.

Then proceed to the outlines of the cornea. Remember, in order for the eye to turn out alive, not a single detail should be neglected. Be sure to carefully examine the drawing and determine where the highlights are on the pupil - mark them immediately, at the moment of drawing the pupil.

Start redrawing more small parts. Many people don’t realize that drawing beautifully requires being very, very attentive to details. Do not put off this moment for later, look closely at the picture, look at the main details and carefully transfer them to your drawing.

Gradually you will catch everything large quantity details. Many beginners are surprised that a simple lead pencil has so many shades, from light gray to black, and yet this is exactly the case. When drawing, do not experiment and do not deviate from the original - one stroke is wrong and the drawing will disappoint you.

The anime style eyes are very beautiful. The eye pattern in this style is a little distorted, but very effective. The eyes are unnaturally large with long eyelashes; these are the eyes that girls dream of. Unfortunately, such eyes can only be seen in pictures; in reality, human eyes look different. However, it is not necessary to have huge eyes and long eyelashes; any person has very beautiful eyes, especially when he smiles. Any portrait of a person is, first of all, correctly drawn eyes. However, drawing eyes correctly is quite difficult, since it is very difficult to convey a person’s gaze in a drawing. Let's try to learn draw eyes person with a pencil, step by step.

1. First draw simple outlines

To make it easier for you draw eyes man, I decided to draw only one eye. But you can immediately draw two eyes by placing them side by side in a mirror image. To do this, draw both contours in your drawing at once. Please note that the eyes should be the same, but in a mirror position in relation to each other, otherwise they will look crooked and askew, which is naturally undesirable for drawing a girl’s beautiful eyes.

2. Add another outline to the picture

So far the lesson on how to draw eyes is more like a geometry lesson. But it is with these figures that it will be easier for you to learn to draw correctly. Please note that the second contour is not a square, but a rectangle, its horizontal sides are longer than the perpendicular ones.

3. Draw the general shape of the eye

Now you will need to draw the shape of the eye, “stretch” the previous outline and draw an oval for the cornea of ​​the eye inside the rectangle. All this is not difficult to do, it is only important to accurately mark where the corners of the eye will be located. Please note that if the angled lines are connected too far, the eyes will appear narrow.

4. The eye takes on a real shape

When drawing eyes, it is important to correctly draw the shape of the eye, to “maintain” all the proportions, and that’s why we used geometric shapes. But at this step, we will no longer need them, and they will need to be deleted. But first you need to change the shape of the eye, just like in my drawing. The left corner of the eye (in relation to you) needs to be moved beyond general outline and lower almost to the level of the lower part of the oval of the cornea. And on the contrary, move the right corner of the eye inside the contour at the level of the horizontal marking line. After this, use smooth lines to connect the corners into one whole. Now you can remove the unnecessary ones contour lines and in the picture there is now a real beautiful eye. This is a difficult step, give it the most attention.

5. Eye drawing is almost finished

Inside the cornea of ​​the eye you need to draw a pupil. The pupils do not need to be drawn too large. Human eyes have small pupils in normal lighting. In the left corner, draw a bag for tears, and on top, a parallel line of the upper eyelid. Now we can say that you were able to draw the eye almost completely. All that remains is to draw the eyelashes and shade the drawing a little with a pencil.

6. How to shade your eyes with pencil

To finally draw the eyes you need to add eyelashes, but small ones. After all, we are drawing ordinary human eyes, and not the eyes of a fashion model from a magazine. Please note that eyelashes can have an unexpected effect on your eye and should be used with caution. Then you need to darken some areas of the eyelids, as shown in the picture. You also need to add a stroke around the eye where the eyelashes were, and outline the iris. And of course, color the iris with colored pencils.

7. Add Color to the Iris

Now, when drawing a person’s face, you can confidently and correctly do eye drawing.

Drawings of faces, human eyes, portraits - this is the most complex look visual arts. Learn to draw a portrait of a person, a person's eyes, even with a simple pencil, requires not only time to learn, but also talent. The difficulty of drawing a portrait of a person lies in the ability to convey emotional condition a person, his facial expressions, depth of gaze, etc. The most important thing in a portrait is to correctly draw the person’s eyes.

Eyes in an anime drawing are the basis of this style. All pictures of girls drawn in anime style are distinguished by huge eyes - black, blue, green. But be sure to be huge and expressive. To draw eyes correctly, you must do this in stages, since eyes are the most important and complex element of any human drawing.

When drawing a person you should see the whole future image from the expected lines and all you have to do is draw them. IN fine arts the most important thing is not the accuracy of the proportions and lines of the drawing, but the image of the main, most important thing. Very often, it is enough to accurately draw eyes that convey the mood and character of a person.

The lesson on how to draw a ballerina is designed for those who already know how to draw well, since drawing a person is not easy. Drawing a picture of a ballerina is especially difficult, since the drawing needs to convey the grace and elegance of ballet dance. But if you want to draw a ballerina, try it with us.

Pictures of Spider-Man attract with their dynamism and brightness. Spider-Man's eyes are hidden under a mask, with triangular slits for the eyes. But if you draw this character close-up, you will need to draw the eyes in more detail. To do this, you can use this lesson and draw the eyes accurately and correctly.

Let's try to draw a hockey player in motion, with a stick and a puck, step by step. You might even be able to draw your favorite hockey player or goalie.

How to draw eyes with a pencil? Each of us has a rough idea of ​​what the human eye looks like and can draw at least this primitive image:

But, since you are puzzled by the question of how to draw an eye step by step, apparently you want to get more.

First, I advise you to go to the mirror and carefully examine your eyes. Simply studying an object always reveals a lot of new things. I remember a school drawing lesson where we were given an assignment. I drew the best I could and brought it to the teacher for checking. And Natalya Maksimovna advised me to take a close look at her eyes. “Pay attention,” she said, “we have eyelids and folds under the eyes. They also need to be drawn.” At that moment it became a real discovery for me - it turns out that if you look at something with all your attention, and not just scribble from memory, the object will reveal its new facets to us. You just need to add a few details and the eye starts to look completely different. He becomes more alive, real.

Over the next few years, until I graduated from school, I drew a lot of self-portraits sitting in front of the mirror. And the more the hand worked with the pencil, the better the result. Gradually, the drawing and the reflection in the mirror began to resemble each other, which was initially not observed at all. The longer I painted, the less doubt I had about choosing a profession. I definitely wanted to be.

In this lesson I want to show you how to draw realistic eyes, the volume of eyeballs, and pupils. If you understand the structure of the eye, then everything will become easier and more understandable.

The eye is based on a ball, which is hidden in a special hole in the skull (orbit). The ball cannot be illuminated evenly. Some part of it will be in the shadow, some in the light, and between light and shadow there is a territory of chiaroscuro. Accordingly, the white in front of the eyes (the white field around the colored circle) will not be uniformly white. Below I will demonstrate this more clearly.

The iris of the eye, the same one that can be green, blue, brown and in rare cases purple, is a rounded bulge extending beyond the eyeball. Accordingly, it will be unevenly illuminated. In fact, the iris does not stick out from the ball that much, but I exaggerated for clarity.

On top of the eyes there is skin that covers most of the eyeball and forms folds - the upper and lower eyelids.

Want to learn how to draw a child's eyes? How are they different from the eyes of an adult? Look at the photo below. The iris of babies seems much larger in size than that of an adult. In fact, children have a smaller eye opening - the opening between the eyelids through which the eyeball is visible. Over time, as the child grows up, the incision will increase and the eyes will “grow up.” And, as a rule, children's eyes are wide open. They look at the world in surprise and do not judge anyone. Kids are simply saturated with information about the place in which they live.

Gradually, under the influence of society, a person’s character is formed. “Mirror of the Soul” acquires its own special features. Some people have laughing eyes, others have stern ones. You drown in someone's eyes like in the sea. They are bottomless and attractive. But there are eyes that you want to turn away from and never look into them again, because there is nothing there except emptiness or malice.

We will draw big beautiful eyes. How to draw eyes step by step?

Draw 2 parallel lines and divide them into 3 equal segments. Why 3? The distance between the eyes is equal to the length of one eye. It may be a little more or a little less.

For most people, the inner corner of the eye is slightly lower than the upper corner. In other words, people's eyes are a little slanted. This “slantness” is most strongly expressed among the peoples of Asia - the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Mongols... However, it is also present among Europeans.

The inner corner of the eye is somewhat narrowed. Here is the so-called lacrimal caruncle - a small area Pink colour. Everyone's eye shape is very different. I draw the girl's rather large eyes.

We mark the area that will be occupied by the same tear caruncle on the inner corners of the eyes. Then we draw the iris in the form of a circle. As a rule, the iris is not completely visible. It is partially hidden under upper eyelid. If you want to draw frightened eyes that are filled with horror, do the opposite - hide part of the iris under the lower eyelid, and leave free space between the upper eyelid and the iris.

Now we draw the pupil exactly in the center of the iris. The size of the pupil depends on the light level. How brighter light, the smaller the pupil. In the dark, when a person peers somewhere, the pupil becomes 2 times larger. Draw the upper and lower eyelids. The shape and width of the eyelid is different for all people. In older people, the upper eyelid may become completely invisible due to overhanging brow ridges. The fold of the lower eyelid is not so noticeable, at least in young people. With age, all wrinkles become more pronounced.

In order for the eyes to look more expressive, they need a beautiful frame, or rather eyebrows. The distance between the eyebrows is greater than the length of the eye. The outer ends of the eyebrows extend beyond the outer corner of the eye. Of course, everyone’s eyebrows are different, but, as a rule, they are adjusted to modern canons of beauty with the help of cosmetics. In the Middle Ages, women shaved their eyebrows. This is such a strange fashion requirement... Perhaps in 100 years they will laugh at our ideas about beauty. Who knows…

In our drawing, the light will fall from the right. We mark the highlights on the iris. These are the lightest spots on the eyes. If you look at your eyes in the mirror, you will see how shiny they are. Why is the glare on the iris? Because the iris is the most convex area of ​​the eye and receives the most light.

Now let's start shading the eyes. We take a sharpened HB pencil (hard-soft) and use neat strokes to fill in the entire drawing, except for the highlights in the eyes.

Gradually build up the tone by changing the direction of the stroke.

We darken the eyebrows, irises, upper and lower eyelids on the left (shadow) side.

We slightly darken the areas on the sides of the nose. We continue to darken the eyes and eyebrows layer by layer.

Now let's draw the eyelashes, some of which are shorter, others longer. We draw eyelashes with short strokes from their roots to the eyebrows.

Make the lash line on the upper eyelid darker. This will give your eyes expressiveness.

Now let's get to the fun part. Let's take soft pencil(I used 5B) and darken several areas, namely the pupil in the middle of the eye, the iris, focusing Special attention outer edges. We will also darken the eyelash line and the eyelashes themselves on the upper eyelid. Let's highlight the lower eyelashes a little. Let's also make the eyebrow a little darker. As you can see, the eye has come to life. The difference between the right and left parts of the picture is obvious.

A lot of people miss the little things, but important details the structure of the eye, representing it schematically. For example, many people forget to draw the third eyelid in the corners of the eyes near the nose, or that the eyelid usually casts a shadow on the iris. If you want to learn how to draw, I recommend starting to draw from memory, rather than copying someone’s eye from a photograph, then you will consciously remember the basic principles.

First, mark a barely noticeable horizontal line on a piece of paper (later we will erase it), the entire drawing will be built from it, but during construction it serves as a guide.

Now we draw the outline of the eyes, which will also be the boundaries for the eyelids. Please note that the pupil is in human eye It is not located exactly in the middle of the eye, but is shifted slightly upward. This is very important for creating a realistic look.

When the main boundaries are outlined, you can start shading. To do this, it is better to change the pencil and take one as soft as possible so that the shading is dense without pressure. Mark in advance a highlight on the iris that will slightly “overshadow” the pupil; there is no need to shade this area (erasing dense shading is a hassle!).

Have you shaded the pupil? Moving on to the iris, shade it with thin lines without going into the highlights. It should always remain the brightest part of your eye, this will give it a realistic "wetness". There is no need to try to draw everything perfectly at once, to draw out every line, you need to create the general appearance of the eye, outline how the light falls on it.

Let's move on to centuries. Apply shading not with sharp movements, but with long lines, following the smooth shape of the eyelids. This will immediately give them impressive volume. Do not press hard on the pencil, but rather use shading to shade all the shaded details.

This can be a thick napkin or a piece of clean fleecy cloth. But don't start shading with dark details like the pupil, it will get dirty and then mess up the whole drawing! First we shade the lightest parts, the sequence is as follows: the eyelid, the white of the eye, then the iris and only finally the pupil.

Just don’t make all the strokes the same, they should be of different lengths and thicknesses, then the look will sparkle with lively sparkles. Don't forget about the third eyelid. There is often glare in the corner of the eye. Just use an eraser to erase a small spot to create a highlight, but not as bright as on the iris.

Finally the eyelashes. We draw them only last, otherwise they will interfere with shading the eyelid! Real eyelashes are never straight, they are always slightly curved. We start drawing eyelashes from the upper eyelid, draw slightly curved arches (the length of eyelashes is different for each person, it all depends on your desire, but do not overdo it). Then we slightly thicken the base of each to give them thickness and volume. Don't forget to tilt your eyelashes according to the shape of your eyelids!

This lesson will show you how to draw eyes step by step with a pencil.

I actually really love drawing eyes, I just love this part human face, because for everyone they are completely different and reflect our character, our mood and intentions. At first, when I was just learning to draw and was a very, very beginner, drawing eyes seemed to me something incredibly difficult and unattainable. However, when I read the tutorials that explained the whole essence of drawing an eye, it became much easier for me. So, in this tutorial I want to show how you can draw beautiful eyes step by step, and it will be very easy! In addition to the eyes above, we will have an eye like this:

First, let's draw one eye, and then two at once, so that you can understand how to draw them evenly and correctly.

So, let's start learning how to draw the first eye, carefully read all the descriptions and repeat after me. If you don’t succeed the first time, there’s no reason to be upset, it’s just training.

The first thing we need to do is determine the size of the eye, its length. Let's draw a line like this - it should be slightly inclined. At the edges I limit this line with two short strokes. Note that the first lines should be very, very light and thin, and you should have an eraser at the ready if you decide to draw the eye with a pencil.

Draw smooth lines from the edges of the segment. We should get a shape that resembles an almond. Let's round off the protruding corner with a small line - look, it's already starting to resemble a real human eye, albeit drawn.

By the way, when you draw a person's eyes, it is very important that you have an example. Place a small mirror in front of you or open a photo of eyes - drawn or real. Examine carefully - see that the lower eyelid is not flat, but how you stick out? That is why I add another line below, with eyelashes growing along its lower border. Now we draw the iris and pupil - they are slightly hidden by the upper eyelid, but not always.

Next, we arm ourselves with an eraser and erase all the extra lines - the upper part of the iris, as well as those strokes that we left at the very beginning. Now we need to draw a fold at the top, as well as very small folds at the bottom and near the corner of the eye. note that appearance These folds can vary depending on what kind of eyes you draw - for example, in Asians these folds are almost invisible.

Our eye is almost done, now I draw the eyebrow on top and add eyelashes.

Now you know how to draw an eye step by step with a pencil, but that's not all. I need to add a little volume to the eye - I paint over the pupil and also add shading to the white of the eye.

The next step is to add shadows to the drawn eye - along the edges of the folds, but it all depends on the lighting. I also draw on the eyebrow hairs to make it look natural.

This is the drawing of the eye we came up with step by step. You can practice with a pencil, and then try to color your eyes with paints or colored pencils.

Happened? It's time to send a photo of your drawn eye in the comments and try to draw two eyes with me at once.

The distance between the eyes is equal to the length of the eye, so we draw a straight line and divide it into three parts. It should look like this.

Add these slanted lines.

Focusing on the drawn base, we draw the shape of future eyes. We draw the lines one by one - first the upper lines of both eyes, then the lower ones, then we finish drawing the tear line - this way you will get symmetrical eyes. And, of course, we look at the basis.

Now we take turns drawing both the pupils and the iris of the eye. If you are afraid to draw crookedly or askew, first put one dot on each eye, see if everything is even, and then draw circles so that the dots are exactly in the middle.

Erase the extra lines outside the eye border and draw the upper folds on both eyes.

Add corner and bottom folds.

Next, I erase all those extra lines in the eye drawing. I draw the eyebrows a little higher, and add the bridge of the nose between the eyes so that the picture looks natural. When I drew these eyes, I looked at a photo of a celebrity's eyes, you can do the same or look at my drawing.