Drawing the human eye all the information you will need in drawing the human eye
In drawing the human eye it is a good idea to find a good book on anatomy so you can get a better understating of the human eye and its parts in relation to the rest of the parts of the face. When I am drawing the eyes I constantly think of the relationship of the other eye with the one I am drawing and you can read more about how to relate the eyes to the rest of the face in the portrait tutorials in the right hand column of our website.
We now need to draw in the little areas around the eye to set the eye off a little so observation is needed here, shade in these areas with a 2B pencil. Draw in the pupil of the eye which is more or less in the centre of the lens with a dark 4B pencil. The actual eyeball is round so draw in slightly darker shade in the left and right corners of the eyeball to indicate its roundness.
Everything is drawn in darker now building up shade as we go along and we also draw in the eyebrow to set the eye off a little. The top lid is usually darker than the bottom one so we need to observe this if we want to make the eye look like a real eye. There are darker lines around the outline of the lens of the eye which brings the lens out to us more from the eyeball.
Here we have the finished drawing the human eye and we have made it even more darker all around the actual eye shape and drawn in dark accents where it really needed them like in the pupil and also leaving white paper for the highlight. If you cover up lights and highlights with your shading don't worry you can use a putty rubber or bluetac to remove the shading and here the reflected light in the lens of the eye has been removed by using this method.
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