And when entering special institutions related to the profession of a painter, these skills are required.
And of course, the eyes are considered the most important element of the portrait, because the general atmosphere of the picture depends on how you portray them.
Through the look you can guess the mood of a person, his character. It reflects what we think and care about, what intentions we have. That is why, if you want to start working with images of people, you need to pay great attention to the eyes.
Despite the fact that the images of any object and object are the better, the more you have it, knowledge of the device and anatomy will help to simplify the task.
In this article we will look at how to learn how to draw eyes step by step quickly and beautifully.
Structure: how to draw eyes?
So, as mentioned earlier, in order to draw beautifully in stages, it is necessary to follow all the anatomical subtleties keep proportions.
The eye is a small sphere placed in the eye socket and covered with eyelids, which, in turn, are framed by eyelashes. The space between the eyelids is called the palpebral fissure. You should also pay attention to the third fold above the eye, located on the upper eyelid.
The part that is visible to us if the eyelids are raised is the protein coat, which turns into a slightly convex and transparent cornea. But already under the cornea is the iris. Iris has a curious structure: it is made of muscles, and this is where all the pigment contained in the eye is located.
As everyone knows, the hole in the middle of the iris is called pupil. Since muscle fibers tend to narrow, the pupil can change its size depending on how much light hits it. Therefore, be extremely careful, because if you depict a character’s face flooded with light or, on the contrary, he is in pitch darkness, the size of the pupil will vary.
The indentation in the corner is called the tear lake, which is designed to moisten the eye when you blink. Its inner part is always rounded, while the outer one has a sharper end. You should also pay attention to how the eyelid is placed and how it fits the eyeball. The extent to which it hangs over the eye can add a significant number of years to a person.
How to draw human eyes?
Drawing an eye with a pencil is not so difficult. To start drawing the following tools are required:
And now let's get to work. How to draw eyes correctly? Remember that no one will ever be able to do this job well and correctly the first time, so be patient and don't give up! The more training and practice you have, the faster and better you will get every time.
Very easy and sketch without too much pressure eyeball, which is a regular circle.- Then draw it for centuries, while covering about one third of the eyeball upper eyelid and the same number of lower eyelids. The upper eyelid, or rather, its area should be slightly concave.
- Notice that the outer corner of the eyelid is slightly raised in relation to the inner one (the one closer to the nose).
- Add to drawing lacrimal sac.
- Now move on to creating the iris and pupil.
Do not place the iris exactly in the middle of the eye, because this will make the look look aggressive. And also do not lower it too low to the middle eyelid. This part of the eye should be very slightly covered by the upper eyelid. - Adding highlights. This should be done not just like that, but based on which side the light falls on. Don't make the highlights too big, as this can reduce the expression of the eye.
- Moving on to shaping. We start hatching from the most pigmented, and, consequently, rather dark part of the eye - the iris. It is important to know that its upper part is the darkest, slightly lighter on the sides, and the lower part is the lightest.
When hatching, it is important to draw the "rays" that come from the pupil. You don’t need to highlight them too strongly with a pencil: there should be a lot of them, but they should not be very noticeable.- Highlights can be left unshaded if you have already drawn them, or created with the tip of the eraser after the entire iris has been hatched.
- To give more liveliness to the eyes, again, with the help of an eraser, several light rays should be depicted.
It is important not to repeat the mistake that many make, leaving the protein completely white. In nature, this does not happen, and therefore, the drawing will come out unrealistic. That's why add some gray shadows in the corners, as well as near the border with the upper and lower eyelids.- Let's start shaping the eyelids. The crease of the upper eyelid is the darkest place. After drawing it, slightly blend to lighter areas.
- Let's move on to eyelashes.. They can be very different: short, long, fluffy and not very. All this is at your discretion. However, do not forget that each eyelash differs from the other in size and in nature they are not absolutely identical. The ciliary row begins from the very corner of the upper eyelid and ends closer to its border with the lower one.
How to draw eyes the same?
So, with how to draw one eye, we figured it out. But for many artists who have perfectly worked out the drawing of all small parts, there is a problem in order to depict the second one also well. It should not mow, should not be more or less, corners, irises - everything should be the same. The task is undoubtedly difficult, but quite feasible. We recommend drawing two eyes at the same time.
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Let's be honest, drawing a face is not easy, especially if you have no experience! It's not the same as painting landscapes, where it doesn't matter if the tree is shifted sideways by a centimeter, or if it has changed its shape. When you draw a realistic face, everything must be in its place, otherwise it will turn out to be ridiculous. And not only that, each part of the face has its own unique anatomy, which must be taken into account - at least as a basis on which you can then build something!
In this tutorial I will show you how to draw eyes. I hope that this lesson will be useful not only for beginners, but also for those who have been in the field of drawing for a long time, but will be happy to learn something new and develop their skills even more - or maybe just try something new .
INTRODUCTION
They say the eyes are the window to the soul and without a doubt they are the most expressive part of the face. I heard that if you draw the eyes correctly, then you are halfway to good portrait and this is true to some extent. The eyes are also often the element of the face that makes a portrait look lifeless, and this usually happens when the artist doesn't fully consider their anatomy.
So before you start drawing realistic eyes, let's look at a line drawing showing what the eye actually looks like. Of course, there are eyes different shapes and dimensions, but the general shape will always be the same. The eyeball is called so for a reason - it has a spherical shape, and its lines are visible even when we do not see the entire eyeball. If you look from the side, it becomes even more obvious. Further, in the inner corner of the eye is the lacrimal canal, and, of course, the upper and lower eyelids. Omission of any of these details leads to an inadequate result!
To achieve more full picture, I will show you how to draw an eye in two perspectives - a front view and a ¾ turn, because these two perspectives are most often found in portraits.
SO, LET'S BEGIN!
Start day open new file and choose a skin color for the background fill - something in between, not too bright and not too dark. Add a new layer and make a sketch of the eye, not forgetting all the little things that were mentioned above. Our light source will be on the right, so we can now add its reflection to the sketch.
First of all, let's give shape to the adjacent area of the eye. You can draw directly on the background or (as the most convenient option when creating realistic portrait) just add a new layer below the sketch layer and paint on it. Select a standard round brush with Opacity (Opacity) in the mode of Pen Pressure (Pen Pressure), pick up an orange-brown tone for the shadows and a yellow-beige for the light spots, so that you can start shading. Move the brush along the natural curves of the eye sockets and eyelids.
Continuing to work with the round brush, we paint in the shadows and highlights, and add some gray-purple to vary the color, even if this color is not very noticeable. To smooth out the brush lines a bit, I usually use the Smudge tool in Finger Painting mode, the brush tip in Scatter mode and Opacity in Pen Pressure mode. Experiment with the settings; these parameters are my personal choice, but maybe completely different ones will suit you!
To get more clear picture After how the eye will look, let's paint over the white of the eye. The most common mistake here is to choose purely white color for protein. Remember, we have to take into account the round shape of the eyeball, as well as the reflections of the light source. Use a grayish tint - it the best way suitable here - the degree of its lightness will depend on the overall illumination of the picture. Adding a bit of skin tone (or a tint of light if it's bright enough) to the white of the eye can make it look more realistic. And with regards to the lacrimal canal, you can take a beige-pink shade as its basis.
Now let's color the iris. I choose a color that fades from medium to dark blue and then add a light, light layer on top of this base. This already gives a sense of depth. Next, add the pupil. Please note that on a ¾ spread, the pupil is no longer round, but slightly oval; this is due to a change in perspective. Don't forget the little bright dot to illustrate the reflected light flare, because it will help you fine-tune the iris later on!
We have almost got quite realistic eyes, even despite the fact that the drawing is still raw and lacks many details. However, for now, we will work out the basic shape of the eye and give it volume. Taking a round brush, I choose a fairly saturated orange brown for deep shadows between the upper eyelid and the eyebrow. I also use this shade to add some shadow on the upper lid and a little on the inner corner of the lower lid. The tear duct takes on a beautiful rich orange tint, which is also lightly applied to the outer corner of the eye. To enhance the light spots on the eyelids, you can equally use both light beige and gray-green shades. We also once again draw shadows on the eyeball itself.
Further from this point on, everything is tied to further processing and adding details. We work with the same round brush, varying (manually) its Opacity (Opacity) and size. I always get the feeling that I am carving a figure in stone like a sculptor, and not just painting like a painter; adding shadows and highlights, I sort of enliven the figure, and it becomes voluminous and realistic. This is what we will do: deepen and draw shadows. Adding a soft but noticeable shadow on the edge of the upper eyelid helps to achieve the effect of eyelashes, and softens the edges where the eyeball disappears under the eyelid. The color of the iris is played with pale green, and where the eyelid shadow falls on it, we add a very juicy turquoise.
Staying on the iris, take a small brush - either round or pointy - and you can start drawing a pattern of lines. There are such lines on any eyes, but sometimes this pattern can be so dark that it is almost invisible. However, the iris always has lines running from the pupil to the outer edges of the iris itself. In this case, we want them to be noticeable and saturated. We will choose pale green and turquoise for this purpose, but use both light and dark shades the same or similar tone. From time to time, move away from the drawing and look closely at it, so you can notice some flaws that you need to work on. Here I've added a little more highlights on the outside of the eyebrow, on the edge of the lower eyelid, and around the tear duct. Then you can move on to the eyebrows.
Using the tool Finger (Smudge tool) with a dotted tip of the brush, we carefully draw the iris. Please note that you need to move from the pupil to the edges of the iris: we do not want all the lines to blur! After that, we select a very bright - but almost desaturated - pale green color and go over the iris where the light falls on it: in the right side, and a little in the lower left corner, where a small glare from the light hits. To emphasize the line of the eyeball, we take the white-blue color and draw the main highlight on the eye. Now I draw it in the form of an arch, crossing the border of the iris and getting a little on the proteins. This will give the surface of the eye a wet sheen.
Using a small round brush with Opacity (Opacity) and Size Fluctuation (Size Jitter) in the mode Pen pressure (Pen pressure), now you can draw an eyebrow. Choose a nice dark brown and another regular brown. Lightly go over the eyebrows with the Smudge tool. Take the color of the skin surrounding the brow and use it to thin out the excess hair. Accentuate the skin around by adding a few spots of light, especially with outside where the light will fall straight. After that, you can move on to eyelashes. Let's add a new layer so as not to spoil big picture eyes. Select a small round brush with Opacity (Opacity) and Size (Size) in the mode of Pen Pressure (Pen Pressure) and start applying cilia with light movements. If they are not dyed with ink or curled with a special device, they practically do not fold up!
You can keep adding more lashes on the same layer, or you can create a new one to make them thicker. You can also duplicate the layer with the already drawn eyelashes and move it a little to the right or left, then reduce a little Opacity (Opacity), delete unnecessary elements and go over them with the tool Finger (Smudge tool). If you are satisfied with the result, we slightly blur the cilia in some places. Let's add a few small highlights between the eyelashes on the lower eyelid, and get beautiful effect shine.
The last step in every drawing is adding those little details that make the drawing come to life, to make it more realistic, even though the quality is rather obvious. Using separate layers for these details will only help you, because in this case you can edit and experiment with effects without damaging the drawing itself. But before we start detailing, let's work on the iris a little more. Take the darkest turquoise color and draw around the pupil a circle of lines coming from the center to the edges - some more visible and longer, some a little less visible and shorter. This will add greenery to the eyes and make them sparkle. Now we will add some more highlights to the laser squirrel using a standard spotted brush, then blur them with the tool Finger (Smudge tool). Using a smaller spot brush with 50% Angle Jitter, we will go over the eyebrows, eyelids and corner of the eye with a bright white-yellow color. All this is done on a separate layer! Slightly smudge overly visible points, some of them may need to be removed with Eraser (Eraser) to help better blend with the surrounding area of \u200b\u200bthe skin. Now duplicate this layer and set the layer blending mode to Overlay (Overlay), then slightly move this layer and you will get a beautiful imitation of the skin texture.
Now it remains only to look at your drawing last time you may want to add a few more strokes to the lower eyelid or the corner of the eye, or correct highlights or shadows - and that's it! Ready!
How to draw eyes with a pencil? Each of us roughly imagines what it looks like human eye and can draw at least such a primitive image:
But, since you are puzzled by the question of how to draw an eye in stages, apparently you want to get more.
First, I advise you to go to the mirror and carefully examine your eyes. A simple study of an object always reveals a lot of new things. I remember school lesson drawing, on which we were given the task. I drew as best I could and brought it to the teacher for checking. And Natalya Maksimovna advised me to take a closer look at her eyes. “Pay attention,” she said, “we have eyelids and wrinkles under the eyes. They also need to be drawn. At that moment, it became a real discovery for me - it turns out that if you look at something with all your attention, and not just paint it from memory, the object will reveal its new facets to us. One has only to add a few details and the eye begins to look completely different. It becomes more alive, real.
In the next few years, until the very end of school, I painted a lot of self-portraits sitting in front of a mirror. And than more hand worked with a pencil, the better the result. Gradually, the drawing and the reflection in the mirror began to resemble each other, which was not initially observed at all. The longer I drew, the less doubt there was about choosing a profession. I definitely wanted to be.
In this lesson I want to show you how to draw realistic eyes, the volume of the eyeballs, the pupil. If you understand the structure of the eye, then everything will become easier and more understandable.
At the heart of the eye is a ball, which is hidden in a special hole in the skull (eye socket). The ball cannot be lit evenly. Some part of it will be in the shade, some in the light, and between the light and the shadow is the territory of chiaroscuro. Accordingly, the protein in front of the eyes (the white field around the colored circle) will not be uniformly white. Below I will demonstrate this more clearly.
The iris of the eye, the one that happens to be green, blue, brown and in the rarest cases purple, is a rounded bulge that extends beyond the eyeball. Accordingly, it will be unevenly lit. In fact, the iris does not stick out of the ball so much, but I exaggerated for clarity.
On top of the eyes is the skin that covers most eyeball and forms folds - the upper and lower eyelids.
Would you like to learn how to draw a child's eyes? How are they different from the eyes of an adult? Look at the photo below. The iris in babies seems to be much larger in size than in an adult. In fact, children have a smaller incision in the eyes - a hole between the eyelids through which the eyeball is visible. Over time, when the child grows up, the incision will increase and the eyes will “grow up”. And, as a rule, the eyes of children are wide open. They look at the world with surprise and do not judge anyone. Toddlers are simply saturated with information about the place in which they live.
Gradually, under the influence of society, a person develops a character. "Mirror of the Soul" acquires its special features. Some people get laughing eyes, others are stern. In someone's eyes you drown like in the sea. They are bottomless and attractive. But there are eyes that you want to turn away from and never look into them again, because there is nothing there but emptiness or anger.
We will draw big beautiful eyes. How to draw eyes step by step?
Draw 2 parallel lines and divide them by 3 equal segment. Why 3? The distance between the eyes is equal to the length of one eye. It may be a little more or a little less.
In most people, the inner corner of the eye is slightly lower than the upper one. In other words, people's eyes are slightly slanted. This "slantness" is most pronounced among the peoples of Asia - the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Mongols ... However, it is also present among Europeans.
The inner corner of the eye is slightly narrowed. Here is the so-called lacrimal meat - a small area Pink colour. Everyone's eye shape is very different. I draw rather large eyes of a girl.
We mark the area that the lacrimal caruncle will occupy on the inner corners of the eyes. Then draw the iris in the form of a circle. As a rule, the iris is not completely visible. Partially it is hidden under the upper eyelid. If you want to draw frightened eyes that are filled with horror, do the opposite - hide part of the iris under the lower eyelid, and leave free space between the upper eyelid and the iris.
Now draw the pupil exactly in the center of the iris. The size of the pupil depends on the illumination. How brighter light, the smaller the pupil. In the dark, when a person peers somewhere, the pupil becomes 2 times larger. We draw the upper and lower eyelids. The shape and width of the eyelids are different for all people. In the elderly, the upper eyelid may become completely invisible due to the overhanging superciliary arches. The crease of the lower eyelid is not so noticeable, at least in young people. With age, all wrinkles become more pronounced.
In order for the eyes to look more expressive, they need a beautiful frame, or rather eyebrows. The distance between the eyebrows is greater than the length of the eye. The outer ends of the eyebrows extend beyond the outer corner of the eye. Of course, everyone's eyebrows are different, but, as a rule, they are adjusted to modern beauty canons with the help of cosmetics. In the Middle Ages, women shaved off their eyebrows. This is such a strange fashion requirement ... Perhaps in 100 years they will laugh at our ideas about beauty. Who knows…
In our drawing, the light will fall on the right. We note the glare on the iris. These are the lightest spots on the eyes. If you look in the mirror at your eyes, you will see how they sparkle. Why is the highlight on the iris? Because the iris is the most convex area in the eyes and it gets the most light.
Now let's start shading the eyes. We take a sharply sharpened HB pencil (hard-soft) and with neat strokes fill the entire drawing with the exception of highlights in the eyes.
We gradually gain tone by changing the direction of the stroke.
We darken the eyebrows, irises, upper and lower eyelids on the left (shadow) side.
Slightly darken the areas on the sides of the nose. We continue to darken the eyes and eyebrows layer by layer.
Now let's draw the cilia, some of which are shorter, others are longer. Draw eyelashes with short strokes from their roots to the eyebrows.
We make the lash line on the upper eyelid darker. This will give the eyes expressiveness.
Now let's get to the fun part. Let's take soft pencil(I used 5B) and darken a few areas, namely the pupil in the middle of the eye, the iris, paying special attention to the outer edges. We also darken the lash line and the eyelashes themselves on the upper eyelid. Let's highlight the lower lashes a bit. Let's also make the eyebrow a little darker. As you can see, the eye has come to life. The difference between the right and left parts of the figure is obvious.
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 on it 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.
Some people think that transferring an image to a piece of paper is higher art which is inaccessible to the general public. Knowing the little tricks of skilled artists, everyone will know how to draw eyes with a pencil. The human visual organ consists of the eyeball, upper and lower eyelids. The eye is drawn in the form of an elongated ellipse, with slight bends in the form of a drop near the nose.
The drawing technique is to create additional lines, on the basis of which each part of the organ will be drawn. First you need to draw 3 concentric circles. The first one should have a radius that is 3 times the radius of the middle circle.
The small circle is the pupil, the second is the iris, and the third will limit the eyelid and eyebrow line. We draw a line of the upper and lower eyelids in the form of an elongated ellipse. The upper part should slightly cover the moving part of the eye. Just below the top great circle draw a line of the overhanging edge of the eyelid.
Let's draw some lines a little.
draw parallel line lower eyelid, on which eyelashes grow. Select the pupil with black, leaving a highlight near it. Decorate the iris: draw lines of different lengths in the middle of the eye, shade them.
The turn of the century zone has come. Shade each line with light strokes.
Draw a row of eyelashes on the upper eyelid.
We do the same with the bottom.
It remains to draw the eyebrow. It should start at the level of the nose and make a slight bend a little further than half of the eye. At the beginning of the line, several hairs are depicted, shade the area, carefully separating the hairs in some places.
