How to Draw Eyes

When you draw faces or people, there are several things that artists are focused on. But there is a feature of the human figure that attracts attention almost more than anything else. The eyes. People are drawn to eyes. It is said that they are the porthole to the soul. So, learning how to draw eyes correctly is very important. You can express the person's personality, expression, emotions, etc. all through the eyes.

You can draw millions of faces but until you get the eyes to look realistic and expressive, your figure drawings and faces will never have that awe effect. You can draw wonder and awe through the eyes to your drawing.

Drawing eyes and learning how to draw eyes, does not have to be difficult. There are drawing principles that can help you through the process and draw better eyes than ever before. Some of the things you will want to consider are:

1- Shape

2- Overall size related to the head shape

3- Detail in and around the eyes

4- Values

5- including age marks

6- Emotion

7- Placement in consideration to the nose and ear

As you can see, and probably are aware of already, there are a lot of aspects that go into drawing eyes correctly. When learning how to draw people, the eyes are a great concern.

Here is an important tip to remember when drawing eyes...

This point needs great consideration. It's easy to fall into traps of the icons when dealing with how to draw eyes. Using a football shape for the eye or an almond is wrong. Each eye is individual. If you look closely at someone's eyes, you'll see they don't actually look like like a football. Notice where the eyelids fall, are there wrinkles, how old is your model, etc. Variation in line needs to be observed more to provide the individuality of the person when drawing people.

One quick way to check if you are hitting the head on the nail is to turn your paper upside down, sideways, and this will help you check to make sure your drawing is accurate. This will show you if you have captured the eyes' individuality or if you made it iconic like an almond or football.

From the profile the upper lid protrudes from the face farther than the lower lid creating a downward angle similar to the plane created by the eye socket.

The eyeball is spherical except for the protuberance of the cornea that pushes on the lids raising them slightly as the cornea passes beneath them. There are more and thicker eyelashes on the upper lid than the lower, they radiate from the rim of the lid with a slight upward curve.

From the front view the widest opening of upper lid is approximately 1/3 the distance from the inner corner, while the widest opening of the lower lid is about1/3 distance from the outer corner. The offset of these twomeasurements creates an angle of about 45 degrees.