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Eyes Have It: Eye Drawing Tutorial
Article 6
Materials
Used: Paper, Blending Stump, Rubber Eraser, Pen Eraser,
Graphite Pencils - 2H, 2B, 6B, 8B
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First, sketch the upper lid. I used a 2B pencil,
but any pencil with a softer lead can be used for
the initial sketch. |
2.
Add the lower lid and corner. This initial sketch
does not need to be perfect, since it will be cleaned
up later. |
3.
Add the lower lash line and line marking the beginning
of the corner. Now you have a basic eye shape. |
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Define the crease above the eye. |
5.
Add the outline of the eyeball. |
6.
Next, use a softer pencil (like 6B) to darken your
sketch. Add the pupil, and outline the eye highlights. |
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Darken more with your 6B pencil and add eyelashes
with a 2B pencil. |
8.
Darken the pupil with the 6B pencil. Then, take
a hard 2H pencil and add lines to the cornea. Press
hard enough to indent the paper. Those lines will
add highlights when the cornea is shaded. |
9.
Continue to darken pupil, crease, and lash lines.
Use a blending stump or tortillion to start shading.
Shade the crease, cornea, lower lash line, and under
the upper lash line in the white or the eye. Avoid
the highlights. Sketch in eyebrow with 2B pencil.
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Continue to darken your shading and blend with the
tortillion. Use 2B to darken the crease, lash lines,
and lashes. |
11.
Darken the pupil even more with an 8B pencil. Also
use it to add darkness to the outer line of the
cornea and crease. |
12.
Darken the cornea more, adding some slightly darker
lines within it. Shade more above and below lash
lines. |
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Continue to darken cornea. Add more shading to brow,
crease, and lower lash line. |
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Complete the eye by darkening the top of the
cornea and picking out some lighter lines
with a pen eraser. Use a rubber eraser to
clean up the highlights on the eyeball, within
the cornea, and on the white of the eye. |
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