In this lesson we will show you how to draw with a pencil realistic eye and give the skin texture.
So let's start:
Using a soft pencil, draw the contours of the eye.
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Dip a soft brush into graphite powder and cover the design with it in 2-3 layers, thereby creating a tone. You can take a brush of any size, the main thing is that it is soft and well fills the grain of the paper. Based on the intensity of the tone, we focus on the iris of the eye - if the tone turns out to be very dark, lighten it with a soft eraser.
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Take a smaller brush and apply color to the eyes, working on the shadow areas in detail.
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Use a soft eraser to wipe off the glare area.
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Using a soft pencil (2B) draw the darkest areas - the shadow in the crease upper eyelid and at the top of the iris.
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Using a very hard pencil (5H) draw the iris. A hard pencil is necessary so that in the further process of drawing the lines do not become smeared or rubbed out.
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Again, take a soft pencil (2B) and draw the dark areas of the iris with it.
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Now we will need a soft brush again - we use it to work on the shape of the eye: we intensify and deepen the colors, we detail the shape. The white of the eye also needs to be darkened, giving it a shape - to do this, take a hard pencil (5H) and strengthen the lines of transition from the eyelid to the white.
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It's time to work on the texture of the skin. Take a pencil of medium hardness (HB), add tones to the upper eyelid and the skin around it with light circular movements - you should start with the darker areas, i.e. from the crease of the eyelid. To smooth out roughness, use shading and a hard brush.
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We carry out similar actions with the lower eyelid.
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Additionally, we enhance the shadows on the entire surface of the eye - for this we take a medium-hard HB pencil. To work out the thickness of the lower eyelid, we need a 5H pencil and finally, using 2B, we will work out the shadows on the same lower eyelid.
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To convey realism to the skin, we’ll add a network of small wrinkles. To do this, use an HB pencil to draw small light lines, then carefully use an eraser to slightly lighten a small area next to each wrinkle. To make everything look natural and to hide the artifacts of eraser marks, use a brush and shading. Let’s use the same technique for detailing the protein eyes and tear duct. Using the same pencil (HB), we draw the eyebrows - we draw each eyebrow hair, reducing the pressure on the pencil towards the tip of the hair.
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The last step will be drawing the eyebrows. Once the skin is finished, you can start! The upper eyelashes are always darker than the lower ones, and also darker than the eyebrows. We use a 2B pencil (a little softer is possible), draw eyelashes following the growth of the hair, reducing the pressure on the pencil at the end of each hair. Don't forget to draw the reflection of the eyelashes on the iris.
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Draw the lower eyelashes with a 2B pencil.
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Final touches - if necessary, lighten the lower eyelid slightly with an elastic band.
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If you get lost at a certain point or something doesn’t work out the first time, don’t despair, but rather try again.
We hope this lesson on drawing an eye with a pencil was useful to you!
Good afternoon. Today we will tell you how to draw eyes with a pencil. Almost always, when you start a new business, you immediately imagine how you will do it and what the end result will be. But sometimes there are things that you don’t even want to take on, because you simply cannot understand where to start and how to continue. Some kind of stupor!
I'll tell you the backstory. Our site is run by 2 people: me and my sister, you can read more about us here. So, all the drawings presented on this site are made by my sister, and I just post them online. Those. no art education I don’t have any skills either; in a nutshell, I CAN’T DRAW. And when my sister showed me this drawing, I just gasped!! “How can our readers draw this? It's difficult". But after sitting on it for literally 20-30 minutes, I figured it all out and drew something more or less similar to what is described in our lesson. And on the second try I got almost the original!
Is this all I'm talking about? And to the fact that nothing is impossible. Any business can be accomplished in no time, the main thing is to start... and finish :) Especially when there is detailed instructions for use! Forward! It's beautiful to draw beautiful eyes!
Have you wondered how to draw eyes realistically? It's not that difficult, just follow some rules and tips. Of course, the result will be far from perfect (only an artist can draw eyes as shown in the picture), but at least the eyes will not resemble motionless, frozen balls. Some people think that the eye is like a tennis ball - round and that's it. They are mistaken: this organ is very complex in design, mobile, and in order to display the mentioned characteristics, it is not enough to draw a circle in the frame of the eyelashes. Many amateurs start drawing the eye from the pupil. But the drawing technique described below will teach you how to correctly depict this complex organ.
Drawing tutorial: step by step instructions
1. Be patient blank slate, a 2H soft graphite pencil, and a good soft eraser. First, draw an outline that resembles the shape of a tree leaf. Don't be afraid to mess up your drawing, because you're just learning. The lines should be light, barely noticeable; you will draw the rest of the details later.
2. Draw a circle for the iris and tear duct, the crease of the upper eyelid and the edge of the lower eyelid. The lower eyelid is usually poorly defined in portraits, but its presence is important. We do not clearly outline the middle of the upper eyelid.
3. Most eyes catch glare, and the angles at which it appears are clearly visible on the iris. The size and shape of the reflection may vary. How to draw eyes to make them look alive? Draw some highlights and see which arrangement you like best. If you end up with quite a lot of them, it doesn’t matter, you can erase the extra ones later.
4. Each person has an individual iris pattern, but each of them looks like the spokes of a bicycle. We continue to draw the pupil and iris with a unique pattern in a circle, because straight lines are boring. Create a more chaotic pattern of the iris, because this way its structure will look more natural.
5. Then darken the edges in the center of the iris and outside, thereby making the pupil three-dimensional. The pupil itself must be well painted over.
6. Leave the eyeball white, and darken the pupil and upper part of the iris as much as possible. You also don’t paint over the highlights, just lightly draw the contours to make them look more natural. Learn to draw eyes that are realistic and beautiful.
7. Now we work on the white of the eye, applying shadows with strokes around the contour above the lower eyelid and under the upper eyelid, and slightly outlining the tear duct. The eye comes to life in a matter of minutes, all that remains is to add some important elements.
8. Deepen the eye using pencil shading: apply thin short strokes along the outer edges of the eye, highlighting the outer and inner corners of the eyelid.
9. To make the eye look natural, add some wrinkles at the inner edge of the lower eyelid. The lines are smooth, very light.
10. Now very important point- image of eyelashes. They should be natural, not twisted like a doll's. Be patient and move forward towards achieving your goal! You have practically mastered the basic techniques and now know how to draw life-like eyes. There is very little left. We draw the eyelashes as if they were sticking out of the paper. When you have marked the required number of hairs, go over them with a pencil again, only this time with pressure. You need to draw with jerky movements so that the ends of the eyelashes are thin, natural, and not cut off.
11. Then you need to add thin eyelashes with light tear-off strokes. The last two steps will create a natural look effect. And don't worry if the hairs look stuck together. Add a few thin lower eyelashes below, they should not be thick and dark like the top ones. Draw more boldly: even if they are not perfectly smooth, they look natural.
12. Add light volume around the eye with scribbles (if desired), using shading to highlight the inner corners of the eye and the outer corner of the eyelid. The eye is now just like a real one, isn’t it?
We hope that the given step-by-step instructions, which detail how to draw eyes in several steps, were useful to you.
What You'll Be Creating
Eyes are a wonderful subject for an image; they combine many different materials and they look like gems, hidden in our body. They are also quite difficult to draw, but that doesn't mean you can't do it! In this tutorial I'll show you how to draw a beautiful, realistic eye without a reference image.
What you will need
- Sheet of paper
- Pencil HB
- Pencil 2B
- Pencil 4B
- Pencil 5B
- Pencil 7B or 8B
- Shading
- Eraser (preferably soft)
- Pencil sharpener
1. Start Drawing the Eye
Step 1
Take a pencil HB, roughly draw a very light oval. The line should be subtle.
Step 2
Draw two curves intersecting the oval that will create the eyelids.
Step 3
The eyelids need to have a certain thickness, so add an edge to them.
Step 4
Draw a round iris, a pupil in the middle, a reflection of the highlight, and also the corners of the eyes.
Step 5
The eyebrow is the frame for the eyes, so don't forget about it! Draw your brow using straight lines to recreate a natural shape.
Step 6
Before we start shading the eye, we need to understand its 3D shape. You can solve this by drawing guide lines. I described this technique in my lesson
2. Draw a Realistic Iris
Step 1
Take the most soft pencil(a 7B or 8B pencil works best) and then fill in the pupil, leaving an area for a reflective highlight. The darkness of the pupil will determine the contrast for the rest of the drawing.
Step 2
Take a pencil 2B, and then draw the suspensory ligaments extending from the center of the iris. Go around the glare area. Angle the pencil slightly so that the lines are soft.
Step 3
Darken the edge of the iris and also draw a “ring” around the pupil.
Step 4
Take a pencil 2B, and then darken the edges even more. Shade the iris by adding more supporting ligaments or fibers, some fibers should be darker than others.
Step 5
Use the same pencil to shade the entire iris. Draw a penumbra around the ring, as well as small shadows between the fibers.
Step 6
Take a pencil 4B, make sure it is well sharpened. Use this pencil to accentuate the shadows you drew earlier.
Step 7
By using growers, carefully align the outline of the iris. This is part eyeball, so the iris should not have a completely hard edge.
Step 8
Take a pencil 4B to draw a shadow from the upper eyelid over the iris. Do not forget that the eye is not flat, and therefore the shadows must be curved.
Step 9
Using the same pencil, draw the shadow of the eyelashes. The shadows will be most visible on top of the reflection area of the highlight.
Step 10
Take a pencil 5B to adjust the contrast of the eye. Darken the shadows to make the highlights pop.
3. Shade the Eye
Step 1
Take a pencil HB, and then create subtle shading around the eyeball. During the shading process, remember that the eyeball is roughly a sphere, so don't make the shadows flat.
Step 2
Use a blender to soften the shadows. Don't be afraid to bring them even further into the center.
Step 3
Use an eraser to clean up the highlighted areas. The eye isn't completely smooth, so it will look even better if you break up the soft shadows with the hard edges of your eraser strokes.
Step 4
Take a pencil HB and then draw the details lacrimal caruncle. This area is wet and shiny, so add small highlights to the outline.
Step 5
Gently shade the tear duct area.
Step 6
Using a pencil 2B, shade the above area even more. Using the same pencil, add a subtle shadow under the lower eyelid. This will separate the eye from the eyelid.
Step 7
Take a pencil HB to shade the edges of the eyelids. Don't forget about the location of the light source!
Step 8
Blend the shaded area using a feather brush.
Step 9
Using the same technique, shade the rest of the skin around the eye. Draw with an inclined pencil to cover a larger area at once and also avoid hard lines.
Step 10
Take a pencil 2B to add shadows where needed.
Step 11
Take a pencil 4B to darken the shadows even more.
Step 12
Finally, take a pencil 5B to further darken the crease of the upper eyelid.
4. Draw Eyebrows and Eyelashes
Step 1
Take a pencil HB to draw the direction of the eyebrow hairs.
Step 2
Take a pencil 2B to draw the hairs one by one. The hairs should not be sharp - their width will depend on the scale of your image. Angle the pencil if necessary to achieve denser strokes.
Step 3
Take a pencil 4B to thicken the front lower part of the brow.
Step 4
Using a pencil 2B, outline the direction and shape of the eyelashes. However, before you start, look in the mirror and try to understand what you see. Eyelashes are curved in nature and their shape depends on the perspective. They drop down slightly, right from the edge of the upper eyelid, and then curve upward.
Step 5
In the same way, add eyelashes to the lower eyelid.
Step 6
The eyelashes tend to stick to each other, creating a tight bunch.
Step 7
Using a pencil 4B, thicken your eyelashes by adding more hairs between them. Eyelashes don't grow in one thin row! Also, adjust the width of the eyelashes according to the scale of the image.
Step 8
Take the softest pencil, make sure it is well sharpened, and then highlight some areas of the eyelashes.
Step 9
The drawing is almost complete. Look at it from a distance and also try to see how the shading can be improved. Use all pencils for this task.
Step 10
Finally, add small details to make the drawing more realistic: fine veins in the eye area, including small wrinkles around the eye. You can make the skin more uneven by simply applying rows of thin transverse lines.
If you decide to digitize your drawing to publish it online, be sure to prepare it first:
What About the Other Eye?
I’ll tell you a secret: there shouldn’t be “another eye.” When you draw a portrait, draw both eyes at the same time, step by step. This way you will simply draw both eyes without copying them one after the other. The good news is that they don't have to be exactly identical - our faces aren't exactly symmetrical!
One of the most important elements of a pencil portrait is the eyes. It’s not without reason that they say “the eyes are the mirror of the soul.” One expression in the eyes can tell a lot about a person: whether he is sad or happy, angry, offended, thoughtful, happy, upset.
On initial stages learning, it is better to use a hard or medium pencil (softness H-F-HB or T-TM in Russian markings).
The human eye has the shape of an ellipse. The inner corner of the eye is located at the level of the center line.
The outer corner of the eye may be slightly raised above the center line.
WITH inside upper part the eyes are most often slightly concave.
But it should be remembered that depending on the type of face, the structure of the eyes can also change, fluctuating within insignificant limits.
We draw the base, taking into account the above characteristics of the structure of the eye.
Add eyelashes on the upper part of the eyelid from the outside.
In the lower outer part of the eye we also draw eyelashes, but shorter than the upper ones. Using a thin line we emphasize the thickness of the lower eyelid.
Having chosen the direction of view, we draw the outline of the iris and pupil.
We shade the iris and pupil, and the pupil should be darker. By changing the pressure of the pencil, we can change the tone of the shading, making it thicker and darker or lighter and lighter. The color of the iris depends on the physiological characteristics of the eyes and the brightness of the light.
Apply shadows from the upper eyelid on the iris on both sides of the pupil. A shadow can also fall on the white of the eyeball, but it is lighter and lighter, and is visible directly under the eyelid, and sometimes almost unnoticeable.
Next, draw the thickness of the upper eyelid with a line parallel to the edge of the eyelid. We emphasize the base of the upper eyelashes, making the line of their attachment clearer. We highlight the contours of the inner corner of the eye. We dial tone on the pupil and iris. Making eyelashes thicker. And finally, add a highlight by selecting the pencil with an eraser.
It is best to draw eyes in pairs, constantly comparing them. But do not forget that there are no people with exactly the same left and right sides of their faces. So the eyes will be different from each other.