HOW TO - Draw Realistic Eyes _ Top 3 Trick Tips To Improve

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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 sketch book or a piece of paper and some pencils , I just get started with a HB pencil .

And uh 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 um doing shadow layers and soft blendings .

I am just focused on the line work .

I basically draw from reference and um 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 , so 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 um pupil .

So if you draw the eye from a total front view , like we do right here , uh then make sure that the pupil is cut off by the upper lid .

And as you can see the uh 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 OK .

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 .

See every time when you learn something in 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 .

OK .

At this stage of the drawing , I just look at it once again and check if the uh proportions are correct .

And if I think that is OK , then I just add a soft and light shading of um the shadow areas just to make sure um to see where is the light in my drawing and where are the shadow areas ?

And here you can clearly see that the upper lid and the lower lid aren't just a thin line .

And this is tip number two that I have for you just to make sure that the upper and lower lid aren't just a thin line like paper .

Um just try to give it more like of a three dimensional look or like an effect .

And now we can draw the eyebrow .

And 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 .

So what we're trying to do when we draw the eyebrows , we try to bundle the hairs uh 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 added a second layer with slightly more pressure onto the paper .

And what we're going to do next is to connect the eyebrow with the eyeball .

And what we're basically going to 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's 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 .

So 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 OK and then go on with the drawing .

And this is tip number three that I have for you to improve your eye drawing skills .

Like it's so tiny but it makes so much effect like many people don't see this , but it's like um the upper lid just throws the casting shadow onto the eyeball and this makes your drawing look like three dimensional .

OK .

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 two B pencil and a four B pencil and 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 two B or A six B or maybe a eight B but 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 wanna show you how to draw a hyper realistic eye drawing .

I just try to break things into small pieces like 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 .

And as you see , I just added some dark areas and some details and some shadows just to make a little bit more contrast .

And at this point , you will see that the pre sketch and the uh proportions are so much important for the whole entire drawing .

Like um it's like when you build a house or you , you , the architecture is trying to build a big house .

And if the fundamentals aren't good , the house will break into .

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 , like 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 um 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 and just to add something that makes your drawing look very beautiful is the eyelashes like don't draw every single hair by one , just 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 and this is simply the direction of the hair from the lashes , just follow the form of the eyeball from 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 .

And then we have basically a beautiful eye drawing .

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