Drawing Of Human Eye: Front View

Step1. Begin to draw the eye by indicating its basic contuouirs with a few casual but carefully palced lines. The complete upper and lower lids, as well as the eyebrow and the corner of the eye socket at the side of the nose. At this stage the iris is just a circle. Study the contours of the inner edges of the lids. Starting from the outer corner, the top lid follows a long, flattened curve and turns down a bit at hte inside corner. The lower lid does just the opposite, starting from the inside corner as a long, flattened curve and then turning upward at the outside corner.

Step 2.Pressing harder on the point of your pencil, now move back over the casual guidelines of Step 1 to refine the contours. The rather angular lines of Step 1 become rounder and more rhythmic. They eye begins to look more lifelike. The shapes of the lids are more clearly defined. It's particularly important to remember that the upper lid always overlaps the iris, cutting off part of the circle. The lower lid touches the iris but doesn't overlap it quite so much.

Step 3.Having drawn the contours more accurately, the artist now begins to block in the tones with broad, spontaneous strokes. The tones are actually clusters of parallel strokes, which you can see most clearly in the tone of the iris and the shadow inside the eye socket. The suggestion is the dark spot of the pupil, and one should carefully draw the shadow that the upper lid casts across the iris and over the white of the eye. Drawing indicates the shadows at the corners of the lids and on hte underside of the lower lid.

Step 4.In the final stage, the artist should strengthen his/her tones and adds the final details he/she darkens the shadowy lines around the eyelids and deepens the shadow cast over the eyes by the upper lid. He/She can darken the iris and the pupil, picking out the highlight on the iris with a quick touch of an eraser. More clusters of parallel lines darken the corner of hte eye socket alongside the nose. Scribbly, erratic lines suggest the eyebrow. And using the sharp point of pencil, he/she should carefully retrace the contours of theupper lid and the tear ducts at the coner of the eye.