HOW TO: Draw Realistic Eyes | Top 3 Trick Tips To Improve

hello and welcome to another drawing tutorial today I would like to show you how to draw eyes from start to finish everything that you need to draw this with me is just a simple sketchbook or a piece of paper and some pencils I just get started with a HB pencil and what I'm going to do is to figure out the proportions by just doing a line sketch at this very early stage of the drawing I just don't care about shading and doing shadow layers and soft blendings I am just focused on the line work. I basically draw from reference and the reference photo is linked down below in the description. And here is the first tip that I have for you if you haven't drawn many eyes before. Many people do the drawing of the pupil just by doing a rounded circle all over and not interrupted. But the funny fact is if you draw the pupil then the upper lid just interrupts that circle because the upper lid is lying over the pupil. If you draw the eye from a total front view like we do right here then make sure that the pupil is cut off by the upper lid. And as you can see the eye drawing is still growing and you can almost imagine that this drawing is going to be an eye. But I'm still working on the line work and I have no shading at all at this point. It's totally okay if your drawing doesn't look like mine at this stage of the drawing right now especially when you draw this eye for the first time. Every time when you learn something and drawing or you learn something in life you can't do it by 100% if you do it the very first time. You have to redo it and do it again and do it again. This is the learning effect! Nobody can draw an eye from the very first time like perfect. That is impossible It's like you're a baby and you're jumping into the water and you can't swim for the very first moment and I mean that is impossible Okay at this stage of the drawing I just look at it once again and check if the proportions are correct. And if I think that is okay then I just add a soft and light shading of the shadow areas. Just to make sure to see where is the light in my drawing and where are the shadow areas. Here you can clearly see that the upper lid and the lower lid AREN´T just a thin line. And this is tip number 2 that I have for you just to make sure that the upper and lower lid aren't just a thin line - like paper. Just try to give it more like of a 3D look or like an effect. And now we can draw the eyebrow. A common mistake that I very often see is that people try to draw every single hair that they see in the reference photo. And this is totally wrong! What we trying to do when we draw the eyebrows we try to bundle the hairs in groups. And the technique is just like the same as I always do when I draw I just start with a thin and light layer and when I feel comfortable with what I have done yet I just add a second layer with lightly more pressure onto the paper. What we going to do next is to connect the eye brows with the eyeball. And what we basically gonna do is to add a shadow area just because there is a space between the eyebrow and the eyeball which is inside and I don't draw the shadow area from the left to the total right side I just interrupt that area in the center of the eye just because this is the lightest part between this space. So make sure that between eyeball and eyebrow there is a shadow on the left side and on the right side. And same thing for the upper lid and for the lower lid And of course there is no need to hurry up in drawing or in art at all. If you need to take your time as I do sometimes just step back see what you have done yet and check if everything is okay and then go on with the drawing. This is tip number 3 that I have for you to improve your eye drawing skills like it's so tiny but it makes so much effect. Many people don't see this but it's like: the upper lid just throws the casting shadow onto the eyeball and this makes your drawing look like 3-dimensional. Okay at this stage I just added all the shadow areas that I want to. And I have a really nice drawing. But it's a very light drawing and I just switch the pencil to a 2b pencil and a 4b pencil. I switch them both when I need it and I just try to add more contrast in it. As you see my lines are getting darker and darker. You can draw with any pencil you want. Just like a 2b or a 6b or maybe an 8b. Just try to make sure that the very darkest part of the whole eye drawing is the pupil and nothing else. I actually don't want to show you how to draw a hyper-realistic eye drawing. I just try to break things into small pieces. As I do in my daily art business as a freelance artist I have big projects and I try to break them into small pieces that I just have to focus on small sets that I have to do. And this is basically what I try to show you right now in this tutorial. I try to break the whole drawing into small steps and show you step-by-step how to do that. As you see I just added some dark areas and some details and some shadows just to make a little bit more contrast. At this point you will see that the pre-sketch and the proportions are so much important for the entire drawing. It's like when you build a house or the architecture is trying to build a big house and if the fundamentals aren't good the house will break into together. And at this point you can clearly see or maybe feel that the pre sketch and the proportions are very very important when it comes to shadows and shading at your drawing. I mean shading a drawing is like simple. But if the proportions aren't correct at all from the very first beginning then your drawing will fail totally. It's like when you build a house and you have the construction of the house done incorrect like - not perfect - then the house will break together. And if the construction is correct like the concrete is perfect then you can add some paint and then you can add the windows and something like that. But if the fundamentals aren't good then your entire drawing will not be good at all. Someone says: "A structure is only as strong as its foundation" and I think that is totally true. Just to add something that makes your drawing look very beautiful is the eyelashes. Don't draw every single hair one-by-one. Try to bundle them the same way as you did and the eyebrows. But there is just one rule that you have to keep in mind. This is simply: The direction of the hair (lashes) follows the form of the eyeball. At the top lid and from the lower lid. Let me just add some lashes. And some dark shadows that I want to add here and there.Then we have basically a beautiful eye drawing. If you think this tutorial was helpful then please share it with your friends and with your family. Because there is no better way to say thank you to me than to share it.

Channel: Lazy Arts

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Keywords: drawing, art, eyes, eyedrawing, how to draw, design, graphic, illustration, learn to draw, learning, tutorial, sketchbook, artwork, eyebrows, art school, creative, 4K, 4K Video

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Length: 12min 21sec (741 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 05 2020