Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will draw an eye.
As my paper pad is in a horizontal position, and the size is small
I recommend the overhand and the brush grips.
If you want to know more about this, please check my recent
video, on how to hold the pencil like a Master.
All right!
Let´s begin simplifying the eye to the max.
We will just make three lines for the upper part,
and this is the first one, practically at a 45 degree angle.
The next one, slightly titled to the other direction, and the
last one, also practically at 45 degrees.
This one is shorter actually.
And the lower part of the eye we simplify it to two lines.
One is slightly tilted, like this.
And the other one that goes up.
This is a really simple way that helps you as a guideline
to then draw the eye in this way.
You almost just have to round the shapes [laughter].
In the corner of the left goes the lacrymal and
the eye is slightly tilted.
Of course for the other eye you would invert this.
I´m using a charcoal pencil and I will write the exact model
in the description under the video…
… however you can use almost anything for this drawing.
We sketch the iris.
This of course is round, and you can normally see
the lower part complete, while the upper one is partially
blocked by the upper lid.
We mark a reflection which will stay white, and draw the pupil.
And these pupils usually look better if they are slightly large
here it turns this way and of course the eyelids have
a width, and we need to draw that.
The width of both lids, the lower one and the upper one.
And we should mark were the lids begin.
Up and down.
All right!
¡Excelente!
We are ready to start shading.
I begin with the pupil, which is the darkest spot, leaving the reflection,
and we do the shadow, projected by the lid on the upper part of the eye.
And as the eye has the shape of a sphere, even the white part
should have shading.
So we see the volume.
We shade the iris, with the upper part darker, because it receives a shadow
and as you saw it, I did it with concentric lines. With lines that
go toward the center.
And we delineate the lid, a little better.
And we shade it.
Very good!
I´m considering that the light source comes from the top
and slightly to the right.
That is why the shade of the eyelid is darker on the left.
Good! and we draw the brow, don´t try to draw every hair
it is more like a shade, made with lines.
If you can hear some cricket-like noises in the background,
it is because I am in the woods.
And I smudge passing lightly a chamois.
This is optional, it doesn´t need to be done, but it does smooth
it out.
You may also apply this technique if you are using graphite.
After smudging we have to reestablish the shading
and the detail.
We do the iris again, with concentric lines … and
we darken the border.
We also reestablish the eyebrow and smudge more in detail
with the blender.
And with the kneaded eraser, we pull lights.
Especially the reflections.
And we draw the lashes.
I think that they look better if they are slightly blurred.
And generally they fall in groups and they often cross.
They aren´t uniform.
We should make the shadow that falls just about the eye,
and below the brow.
We reinforce the shading of the upper part of the white
of the eye, which by the way it is called sclera and we
delineate the iris.
As you saw I did the reflection of the lashes on the upper part
of this, of the iris.
And we smudge it to make it a little bit softer, and more
crystal-like.
And we also smudge some other lines and shadows, also to smooth them out.
We pull some last reflections
we give it the last touches…
And it´s ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo