My, What Big Eyes You Have - Drawing Realistic Eyes

Skull Sockets
Drawing eyes, or any part of the face is tricky because we are all so familiar with the human face. We start looking at faces from birth. We look at babies and they to us. So what we tend to do when drawing the face, especially eyes, is to exaggerate. Eyes get drawn with dark lines instead of emerging out of a darkish area of the socket which end up looking more like an Egyptian kohl eye than a more naturalistic eye. To draw eyes well there are some physical characteristics that need to be considered. The first and most important is [...]



