Hey guys! It's Rachael from the Winged Canvas here!
In today's video, I'm going to be showing you how to draw female and male anime eyes.
I'll leave a time stamp down below if
you'd like to skip to the male eyes but we'll be getting started with the female one.
Let's get started with a basic circle,
We want to draw the basic shape of our eyes so we know where
everything else is going to fall in place.
So remember to keep the pressure on your
pencil fairly light, we don't want to make any marks that we
can't erase later. Now I'm drawing a line on the top. This
is going to be the upper lash line and this is going to be longer than the
line that we're going to be drawing at the bottom.
Notice how these lines are curving inwards where the circle is
at the ends.
Now I'm going to draw the pupil, so you just want to draw a circle inside the
circle that you drew earlier. Just a little tip that I have for you
is if you draw the pupil larger, the eye
will look cuter and if it's smaller, it's less cute
but, if you draw it smaller, it is good for if
you're trying to draw a scared or surprised facial expression.
After drawing the pupil, I'm going to be drawing in two circles
and this is going to show me where the reflection of light is.
Now we're going to make the upper lash line a bit thicker.
If you look in animes, you will often see that
their eyelash lines are super thick. The thicker it is, the cuter it is.
Notice how the inside of this line is sharp.
It ends in a point. Now I'll be drawing the eyelashes.
I'm going to draw a curved line at the end of that lash line
and fill it in.
So when you're drying eyelashes, you don't want to make them come straight
out like this. It looks unnatural and.. just icky!
What you do want to do is actually imagine how the lashes would
come out naturally. There's gonna be a curve to it and depending on the
perspective that you're looking at this eye.
It'll change how the lashes look since this eye is
straight on, the lashes will look like this. The one in the middle kind of
comes straight out. The one on the right kind of curves to
the right and the one on the left curves to the left.
When you're drawing your lashes you want to make sure that there's a nice
natural curve and notice how the outer lashes are longer than the inner lashes.
If you look in real life and in anime, you'll notice that the lashes are always
like this.
So now what I'm doing is I'm adding volume to these base lashes that I'm
drawing. I'm making it pointed at the tip, but
thicker at the bottom.You'll notice this happens a lot in
anime. You can make it as thick as you want, but don't go too far
or it'll look a little clumpy unless that's the look you're going for.
It's anime so there's a lot of different styles that you can follow for this.
I'm drawing in other lashes in between them. A lot of anime characters don't
have lashes, but if you want a very feminine and
cute looking character, animes tend to put a lot of lashes on them.
It gives them a very dough-eyed look.
This eye I chose to add an eyelid so I'm just lightly shading in
where it's going to be. Notice on the inside of the eye,
the eyelid is closer and on the outside it's further away.
Now I'm shading in the outside of the eyelid,
making it deeper so the line is going to be a bit darker on the outside because
on eyelids, that's where it's more deep set --
if you get what I mean.
Just adding some shading in there for more depth.
Like I said this is not a mandatory thing, but if you want to, you can add an
eyelash. Going to repeat what I did on the top
lash line to the bottom lash line -- making it a little thicker, but keep in
mind the lower lash line is not as intense as the upper lash line
so don't make it as thick, but you know, add some add some depth in there!
What I'm doing to the eye now is I'm drawing a guideline to connect
the top and bottom lash line and I'm going to
draw this triangular type shape. This is going to
tie them together and just connect them.
Notice how I curve the inside of the triangle to
make it flow better.
Also notice how I'm not connecting the triangle to the bottom lash line.
I'm gonna be erasing that guideline now.
I'm gonna be adding the eyelashes onto my eye --
Nice gentle flicks to map where I want them to be.
And just like my upper eyelashes, I'm going to draw in
more eyelashes -- make them thicker..
The bottom lashes are shorter than the upper lashes so make sure that you don't
make them too long or it might look like you have some spider legs going on..
..unless that's the look you're going for, add as little or as many as you'd like :)
Now I'm going to be doing the inside of the eye.
What I'm going to start with is the pupil. I'm going to be coloring that in,
but try to avoid the reflections of the eye.
We don't want to color in the two tiny circles that we put in the eye because
that's the reflection of the eye and that's basically going to stay white.
I'm just cleaning up the lines, making it less jaggedy from my initial sketch.
Gonna erase that little guideline that's inside of the reflection just because we
don't need it anymore.
Now I'm going to be cleaning up the lines.
For the inside of the eye, I'm going to be practicing my little gradient
technique. I'll be putting pressure on my pencil at
the top of the eye, and as I go down, I release that pressure
to make it go from dark to light.
Take your time with this -- darken it as you go.
You really want to get this gradient right because it's going to be what adds
that depth to the eye. It's going to make it
look super dreamy and doughy and just *chef's kiss* beautiful!!
So under the eye we tend to have these tiny little wrinkles,
or we have these tiny little tear ducts. I'm just gonna add that into my eye
Add a little bit of slight shading on the
inner and outer part of the eyelid just to add
depth. Alright, eye is almost finished. Now all I'm going to do is just clean
some lines up, darken some things and add one more -- just one more bit of
shading. Right now our eye looks amazing!
But this last touch is gonna bring it all together.
We're gonna add some slight shading inside the eyeball as you can see here.
Very light, but it's gonna add all that depth. It's gonna make our eye look just
a little bit more 3D -- even though anime is 2D.
Alright, now let's get to the male eye. So I'm going to be teaching you a
slightly different way from the female eye just to show you that there's so
much flexibility in how to draw anime eyes.
We're going to start with the basic shape again, this time instead of doing a
circle, I'm going to do a nice fat oval. This is because for male eyes
in anime they tend to look a bit angrier.. at least in animes like
Dragon Ball Z or My Hero Academia. Think Bakugou -- if you know who that is.
Just like the female eye, I'm going to put a line on the top and bottom of the
shape I drew -- kind of following the curve of the shape
and just like before, I'm going to keep the upper line
longer than the lower line.
Now I'm going to draw this inner eye part -- the pupil.
This circle is going to be cut off at the top.
Here's just another tip: if you make this small,
it's going to look a lot more scary or surprised.
If your character is doing some type of exclamation, it's better to make it small.
But usually anime eyes tend to have this inner eye part pretty
big. Just like before, I'm gonna make this
line on the top super thick, making the inner corner pointy once again.
I'm going to do the same with the bottom lash line,
but not as thick as the upper one. Just deepening it for that depth.
Just like the other eye, I'm going to draw this triangular shape that
connects the top and bottom without actually connecting it. You're just
pretending there's a line there, but you don't want it to
touch.
Now I'm going to draw the reflections in the eye. If you're watching the female
part, you would know that I drew the pupil and
the reflections afterwards, but all you have to know is that these basic
shapes should be in the eye and then you can do it in whatever order
you want. If you don't add these reflections in
the eye, it can make your character look a bit more menacing or
angry so if you're trying to make your
character look angry or like they're uninspired or bored, you don't
have to add the reflections in the eye. You can skip that step.
Now I'm drawing the pupil which is just a smaller circle
inside the larger circle I drew before and I'm going to color in, avoiding the
smaller circles that I drew before for the reflections of the eye.
I'm going to be coloring in the circle making it dark at the top
and slowly gradient to light to add that nice depth.
Take your time with this, make sure not to put too much pressure on your pencil
when you're at the bottom there. You want it to look seamless.
Now I'm just cleaning up the circle that I drew before
and the thing about anime is a lot of animes have these
really beautiful thick and thin lines. If you notice they have really
bold black lines or really bold lines that may be colored
that outline the eyes, the pupils, hair, body, etc., etc., and it gives it
this really beautiful depth and illustrative style.
And just like the female eye, I'm going to lightly shade in the top
of the eye as a small shadow. Keep the pencil pressure very light here
It just adds that extra layer of
depth and beauty... Really making your eyes pop out of the
page!
Very nice.. very nice.. Just like the female eye, I'm adding some
shading underneath the eye to replicate the tear duct
shadow that humans tend to have. Now you'll notice I didn't add any eyelashes
to this eye and that's because in a lot of animes
male characters don't have eyelashes. Eyelashes tend to be on more feminine
or cute characters and I've decided to add an eyelid on this eye.
Now you may have noticed that once I drew this eyelid, this eye looked
a lot less angry and more relaxed, The thicker an eyelid is, the more
relaxed someone looks. You can look into a mirror
yourself and burl your eyebrows down and notice what happens to your eyelids.
They tend to kind of shrink in size. I added some depth to the eyelid by
lightly shading the inner and outer part of it
and making the outer part of the eyelid a little darker than the rest.
This is to add, once again, depth. And there you have it, there's a female
and male eye. I hope you learned something from this video and I'll see
you next time!