TAILIEUCHUNG - Use Effective Eye Drawing to Create the Window to the Soul

Eye drawing is the next step in the process of learning how to draw portraits. After blocking in the basic proportions the eyes are usually the next part that I draw. We've all heard that the eyes are windows to the soul, and that old phrase really hits the nail on the head. The eyes are extremely important to your successful portrait drawing, and it is through the eyes that we show our many emotions - happiness, fear, anger, sadness and so on. I | Use Effective Eye Drawing to Create the Window to the Soul Eye drawing is the next step in the process of learning how to draw portraits. After blocking in the basic proportions the eyes are usually the next part that I draw. We ve all heard that the eyes are windows to the soul and that old phrase really hits the nail on the head. The eyes are extremely important to your successful portrait drawing and it is through the eyes that we show our many emotions - happiness fear anger sadness and so on. I will be very helpful from this point forward if you are able to look at your own face while you are doing your eye drawing. I use a small pocket mirror - it does the job fine and it doesn t take up a lot of clutter on my desk. Eye Construction It s important to realize that the eye is actually a ball. It may sound simple enough but I ve caught myself more than a few time forgetting this basic concept so it s worth taking a moment to study. The eye is a sphere which has a little cap cut off of it - this is where the CORNEA IRIS and PUPIL of the eye are located. It s not so important to remember the proper names for these parts just know that they are all important when you are trying to make a realistic eye drawing. A Side Note The iris opens and closes to let more or light into your eye. When you are in a dark place the iris opens very wide and the black middle of the eye appears quite large. When it s very bright out the iris closes to let only a small amount of light into the eye. Try it for yourself - look into your bathroom mirror and turn off the lights. Leave the lights offfor 20 seconds while continuing to look into the mirror. Then turn the lights back on and watch as the iris goes from big to small. Fitting your Eye Drawing to the Face Take one of the drawings that you made from the face drawing tutorial. First we ll place in the eyebrows. Remember that they should be wider than the actual eye so make them a little larger than the eye proportion lines that you

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