In this tutorial I will show you how to draw an eye step by step. To begin with, let's understand what the eye consists of, knowing all its components, you can easily achieve its realistic image.
The structure of the eye
We have analyzed the structure of the eye, let's move on to drawing the eye
Draw an eye
Let's start with the pupil, you can use a circle or draw it freehand. We draw a larger circle - this will be our iris, and a smaller circle in it - the pupil.
Next step. We draw the upper and lower eyelids. In order to do this correctly, imagine that the shape of the eyelids resembles a fish. If we strain our imagination a little, something similar should turn out.
Draw a few highlights on our pupil - this will give the eye realism. Do not forget about the 3rd eyelid, about the thickness of the upper and lower eyelids. After the shape of our eye has become completely suitable for you, we can forget about fish and fins.
An equally important detail in drawing an eye is eyelashes. You need to understand exactly for yourself what shape the eyelashes have, in which direction they grow and how not to draw them. Eyelashes are usually comma shaped in reverse. At the base they are thicker, at the end they taper. Eyelashes are not straight and of the same thickness, otherwise you will get rays of the sun as children draw. Pay attention to how not to draw eyelashes and how to depict them correctly.
Practice separately until you get it right. Now let's move on to the direction of eyelash growth. On the eyelid, as a rule, eyelashes grow in different direction depending on the location. In the figure below, I will show with arrows where and in which direction they grow. Do not forget that closer to the corner of the eye (3rd eyelid), the eyelashes decrease in size. In no case do not make them the same size, otherwise it will not be believable.
In order for our eyelashes to look thicker, we stroke a little at half strength at the base of the eyelashes. Thus, the eyelashes will acquire volume and density.
Let's get down to the part of the tone, volume and realism of our eye. In this lesson, our eye will be black and white in order to emphasize the basics and structures. Let's divide our eye into tones. The lightest part will be the highlight on the pupil. We will not touch it, but later we will generally erase its contours. Please note that the pupil is the darkest in our eye, then the eyelashes follow the tone, then the 3rd eyelid, the iris, and the white of the eye will be the lightest (do not leave it white, it also has a tone).
For correct application I will mark the tone with red lines in which place it is worth applying it so that you do not make a mistake. Remember that the highlight should remain pure white. The arrows indicate the direction in which your tone should weaken and merge with what you applied earlier.
You should get out similar image eyes
Finally, add some contrast to your eye. If necessary, increase the tone where you applied it. Optionally, you can draw in the volume of the upper eyelid that closes the eye. This will give our eye even more volume and realism. Pay attention to the structure of the iris. Draw it, it will only be a plus for your eyes.
Step 1.
Decide which tools you want to use. In this drawing tutorial I used B, 3B and 8B pencils. I recommend that you use different grades of pencils to get the best color depth for a more realistic look. To draw the eye, I took whatman paper (I strongly recommend that you buy special paper for drawing, it should not be expensive). Also in my arsenal there is always a pencil sharpener, a piece of cloth (for shading or a little blur) and an eraser (in the form of a pen).
Step 2
Start sketching out the outlines of the eyes. If it's still hard for you to achieve correct form, try looking at a photo of the eye, or maybe take a look at your own eye. Draw a sketch very easily, barely touching the sheet with a pencil. This is necessary in order to be able to erase the drawn lines in case of an error. Keep your pencils sharp throughout the drawing process. This will give the best results.
Step 3
Start drawing the dark pupil. Then, very lightly, begin to darken the iris. I used a B pencil to do this. After the first overlay layer, add more layers in the dark areas. There is no need to press hard on the pencil. Many layers will make it darker automatically. The iris always has a dark outer line and in my drawing I also made the top half darker to give it a more depth.
Step 4
Next, blur the layers, as it were, until the iris of the eye looks smooth. There are many blur tools out there, but I personally always use cloth because it gives a nice smooth result. After you are done with the blur (feathering), add more layers with more dark pencil(3B in my case) and blur them again. Keep repeating this step until you are satisfied with the result.
Step 5
To finish drawing the pupil and make it more detailed and clear, add some sketch strokes to the iris. Overlay them wavy lines light and soft, not particularly pressing on the pencil. Some of these waves should be longer and some shorter. Keep repeating this action until you fill the entire iris. 
Step 6
Now let's add some shades for the eyeball. white eye not quite white. Remember that this is a ball, not a flat surface, which means there should be some strokes for the shadow.
Step 7
Next, we will draw the tear duct. Play with color depth. Shade some areas more dark color as it shown on the picture. This technique will help to achieve the effect of a slightly wet eye. 
Step 8
Add shading to the rest of the eye. Make sure you don't forget the line above upper eyelid. Shade this area, as well as the area of the lower eyelid, a little darker. If you want, you can go over the shaded area with a regular eraser to make the skin texture look more realistic. 
Step 9
Now add eyelashes. The upper lashes are curved and go up. Start drawing on the top line of the eye, curved lines pointing up and lightly touching the white part of the eyeball (but too much) and draw a line just above the eyelid. Draw the lower eyelashes also with light slightly curved lines don't make them too long. And remember that you need to start drawing the lower eyelashes from the line of the lower eyelid, as shown in the figure. Give each lash (from the top and bottom lash line) a slightly different direction. This will help you achieve more realistic effect.
Step 10
So final stage drawing, my favorite! Now I will draw the reflection of the cilia in the pupil. Add a few strokes in the pupil highlight, as much as you think is enough, and darken some areas until you are satisfied with the result. Now everything is ready! :D
Eye. Without a doubt, this is a favorite subject of many artists! The human eye is undoubtedly a window into the human soul. But how to portray it?
To learn to draw eyes, first I will ask you to take a small mirror. I want you to keep this mirror close to you while you paint. I want you to be able to look at your own eyes at any time while you are doing this lesson.
Mark Kistler picked up this technique from a visit with some alumni to DreamWorks a few years ago. The animators were working on Shrek, and their workstations had multiple computers, monitors, drawing tablets, and, interestingly, two mirrors flanking their desks. While the animators were working on various parts of Shrek, he could watch them frown in the mirrors as he drew Shrek's scowling face. Mark saw them holding their hands in different positions when drawing Shrek's hands. It was very interesting to see how world class artists brought Shrek to life. Now let's add life to your album - let's draw eye.
1. Sitting at the table, take a look in the mirror. Hold on for a few minutes... You are just a miracle. Just take a look! These eyes! These lips, nose, ears, hair, just a great model for drawing. You redrawn da Vinci in, and now you will copy from yourself ideal model eyes on the planet - from yourself! Lightly trace the shape of the eye. In this tutorial we will draw an eye that resembles the shape of a lemon, with a small tear duct. When you draw a lot of eyes (and you will undoubtedly draw more than a hundred of them, because they are so cool to draw), you will notice how many various forms the eyes of people on the planet. In this tutorial we are using simple form lemon.
2. Take a look in the mirror and examine your left upper eyelid. Notice how the folds follow the shape of the eye. Draw the upper eyelid starting from the inner corner of the eye.
3. Draw a perfectly round circle of the iris, bending a little under the upper eyelid. We use the law of overlap. Remember that the iris is a perfect circle, not an oval. Look in the mirror. Look closely at the thickness of the rim along the top of the lower lid. What's interesting is that the smallest details, like this one, what you are looking for and drawing. These details really give a "wow" effect. Without them, your drawing will look unrealistic.
4. Take a look in the mirror. Look closer at the pupil in the center of the iris. Notice the perfect circumference of the circle. Notice the tiny highlights inside the black circle. Draw a perfect round pupil in the middle of the iris. Inside, draw a small circle for highlights.
5. Take a look in the mirror. Look closer at your pupil again. Look at the black pupil and the light highlight. Draw this dark black pupil with a light highlight.
6. Take a look in the mirror. Look closely at the surface of the iris around the pupil. Take a closer look. And further. Just amazing game light, color, humidity, shape, such details! When you fill in the iris, make radial pencil strokes coming from the pupil and use lines various lengths: some are short, some are long. As you experiment with colored pencils, I would recommend that you start with this tutorial.
7. Draw your chic eyebrow. Make out each hair separately, starting from the bridge of the nose and moving along the forehead. Moving away from the nose, draw with more horizontal fluttering lines. Start shading the eyes along the inside of the eyelids.
8. Take a look in the mirror. Take a close look at your eyelashes. Pay attention to how your eyelashes are collected in small groups of two or three, and not from one eyelash. Notice how the lash clusters start from the nearest edge of the upper eyelid. Notice how your eyelashes curl from the eyelid, following the contour of the eye. Pay attention also to the location. Make sure you draw them on the very edge of the eyelid. Pay attention to the direction of the bend of the eyelashes. Be careful not to draw too many eyelashes, and also do not draw them too vertically (otherwise you may get a "spider web" effect).
Next step - shading. This step makes the eye actually appear on the page! There are five specific areas for shading. The first is right above your upper eyelid, the entire length of your eyeball. The next area is along the lower eyelid, above the water line, directly on the eyeball. Shade lightly at first, then you can create a darker effect (if you shade too much it will look like a very heavy gothic makeup, but maybe that's what you're going for?). The third area is the small crease at the top of your eyelids, the line that separates your mobile eyelid from your upper, fixed eyelid. The fourth area is the lower part of the orbit, which is darker in central corner near the nose and tear duct. This shadow is shaded and falls on the cheek.
Just as Leonardo da Vinci used feathering when shading Mona Lisa's eyes without hard dark lines, you also need to make the feathering very soft when shading the 3D eye. Be sure to shade and blend the fifth shading zone - the tiny "hidden" shadows at the corners of the eye sockets and eyelids.
LESSON 29: PRACTICE
I like draw eyes. The more you draw them, the more you enjoy them. Eyes are the most important element in drawing the face of a person, animal or magical creature. Draw some more eyes in your sketchbook, some looking at yourself in the mirror, some watching YouTube tutorials. There are incredible amateur lessons for you to enjoy.
Many people miss the small ones, but important details structure of the eye, representing it schematically. For example, many people forget to draw a third eyelid in the corners of the eyes near the nose, or that a shadow usually falls on the iris from the eyelid. If you want to learn how to draw, then I recommend that you start drawing from memory, and not copy someone's eye from a photograph, then you will consciously remember the basic principles.
First, on a piece of paper, outline a barely noticeable horizontal line(later we will erase it), the whole drawing will be built from it, but during construction it serves as a guide.
Now we draw the outline of the eyes, it will also be the borders for the eyelids. Note that the pupil is human eye located not exactly in the middle of the eye, but shifted slightly upward. This is very important to create a realistic look.
When the main boundaries are outlined, you can start hatching. To do this, it is better to change the pencil and take as soft as possible so that the shading is dense without pressure. Mark a highlight on the iris in advance, which will "go" a little on the pupil, this area does not need to be shaded (erasing dense hatching is still a hassle!).
Shaded pupil? Let's move on to the iris, stroke it with thin lines, without going to the borders of the glare. It should always remain the brightest part of your eye, this will give it a realistic "humidity". You don’t need to try to draw everything perfectly at once, draw every line, you need to create the general appearance of the eye, outline how light falls on it.
Let's move on to centuries. Apply shading not jerky movements, but with long lines, following the smooth shape of the eyelids. This will immediately give them a spectacular volume. Do not press hard on the pencil, but rather use the shading of all the shaded details.
It can be a thick napkin or a piece of clean, fleecy cloth. But do not start shading with dark details like the pupil, it will get dirty and then mess up the whole drawing! First, we shade the lightest parts, the sequence is as follows: the eyelid, the white of the eye, then the iris, and only in the final the pupil.
The eye turned out, but may look a little pale. To "revive" it, you need to add a few details. Make a clearer and more pronounced contour at the iris, shade the outer and inner side of the eyelid, slightly darken the areas of the iris adjacent to the pupil and its outer circumference.
Just do not make all the strokes the same, they should be of different lengths and thicknesses, then the look will sparkle with live sparks. Don't forget about the third eyelid. There are often glare in the corner of the eye. Just use an eraser to erase a small speck to get a highlight, but not as bright as on the iris.
Finally lashes. Draw them only last turn, otherwise they will interfere with shading the eyelid! Real eyelashes are never straight, they are always slightly curved. We start drawing eyelashes from the upper eyelid, draw slightly curved arcs (the length of the eyelashes for each person is different, it all depends on your desire, but do not overdo it). Then slightly thicken the base of each to give them density and volume. Do not forget to tilt the growth of cilia according to the shape of the eyelids!
Many aspiring artists most aspire to draw human faces. This is understandable: the face is the most important aesthetic component of the body, and orders for portraits are received much more often than, say, for the image of the feet.
If you have more or less studied general structure human head, the initial construction and the basics of chiaroscuro, you can begin to master the details. The most expressive part of the face is, without a doubt, the eyes - it is them that we will learn to draw today.
So let's get started!
First sketch out the outlines of your eye. Designate general form, outline the teardrop and eyelid.
Then draw the contours of the iris and pupil, then outline the outline of the highlights and lightly shade the iris, bypassing the marked highlights.
In the next step, shade the pupil (immediately make it darker to separate it from the iris). Start drawing the veins on the iris, and also draw a drop shadow from the upper eyelid. Don't put too much pressure on the pencil so you can gradually pick up the tone in the right places.
Draw the veins on the iris more carefully, work out the shadows above the upper eyelid, and also draw a shadow under the lower one. Walk a thin line of the undercut elastic around the eye: on this light line we will draw eyelashes.
Draw eyelashes - and the drawing will immediately take on a completely different look. The upper eyelashes cross, forming "triangles". The lower lashes are usually much thinner, shorter and less frequent than the upper ones. It will also be useful to work out the texture of the iris in more detail: apply dark dots and strokes, and gently rub out tiny light areas with a rubber band.
It remains to work on the details. Strengthen all dark places: the pupil, the contour of the iris (its upper border is in shadow, therefore darker), the lower border of the upper eyelashes. The shadows above the upper and under the lower eyelids also need to be made a little darker. Pay attention to highlights: they should be as light as possible. Add volume to the eyeball by slightly intensifying the shadows and highlights.
