Hi, Tom here and welcome to my new video
How to Draw an Eye in Color, first draw the top curve of your eye
and then a base curve
and then we can draw a circle for the iris
and a smaller circle for the pupil
Next, draw a line for the eyelid
Now I redraw some of these lines a bit,
so that they all are okay and work together
they are just guide lines at the moment
Now we can erase some of the lines that we no longer want and
tidy up the lines at this stage,
Next, draw a smaller circle for the highlight of the eye
best if it overlaps the pupil
Now erase a bit of the line we no longer need
in the pupil
Next it would be good to make our first line darker,
for this drawing I use a 4B pencil, any soft pencil will be able to
make a tonal range like this
It's very useful to add a tonal range
a graded tone underneath the top eyelid,
because normally when you look at
a person the lights coming from above
and therefore there will be a shadow there and
if you put that shadow in, there is going
to make the drawings look a lot more
three-dimensional
Now we can shade in the pupil
I will shaded it in twice, because I want it to be
as dark as possible
Once you've got the dark tonal range that you need
for the eye that you're drawing and
maybe add some more graded tone to the
right-hand side of the eye as well
then it will be time to add some
smaller details to the drawing
Now it's time to draw the lines in the
eye
these when seen up close are a bit like
branches of a tree
they are also a bit like spokes of a bike wheel,
all coming out from the center
Once you have some of these drawn we can
add some color, for this drawing I'm using
a blue pencil and making the lines blue
and adding some pockets of tone in
the lines as well
There are many lines to draw, I'll make the
outside of the circle dark blue as well
and then it is just a matter of this
stage, of building up the marks and
the tonal range of the blue
For this drawing I'm using a
watercolor pencil which means I can
just add a bit of water to the drawing
the blue bits of the drawing, and blend them
in, in tones, if you're not using a
watercolor pencil, any color pencil will do,
it'll just take a bit longer to get the
full tonal range by shading
Now we can make the pupil as dark possible using a
black watercolour for this
and then make it wet and that will create a
really dense black, but again any dark
black pencil would do this very well too
Next I'll add some tone to the tear duct,
in the corner of the eye
And now I could add some eye lashes,
these I draw by using one fast
mark for each of the lashes, you can't
really improve on these fast lines,
you just have to do more and hope they'll
be ok and stop generally when they're
working, so you need to look at what
you're doing and when it looks like it's
okay then I'll just stop
Now at this stage I'll add some
more tone to the eyelid and anywhere
else in my drawing where I might need it,
building up the tone over time
Now the last step for this drawing is to use
a black pencil to darken the
eyelashes again with the firmer mark
and then some of the lines in the eye
could be darker too...
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Drawing by Tom McPherson