First up, we're going to do the eyes. I've said this before in a different series and I will probably say it in every series that I do. The eyes are by far, in my opinion, the most important part of your drawing. They are your window the soul. They are by far, the most important thing and in my opinion, the perfect place to start. You often base your entire character around the eyes. With women, you kind of want to go for more of a feline type shape. Start with some ovals or a little bit more oval shaped than round or circular and really get in there and make the people stand out really nice. Often times, what I'll do is I'll start by just drawing 2 of McDonald?s golden arches side by side, not connected fully in the middle. See how that is there. Then just do quick little swoops underneath going the opposite way. Then when you've sort have gotten the overall shape. This doesn't really look like much yet. Just 2 weird sort of odd shaped ovals. You bring a little swoop and just follow the curvature of the upper part of the eye to give yourself some eyelids. The thing about eyes is if you're drawing any cartoon character, whether it be a man or a woman. A lot of the character's final expression will end up being in the eye. If you were to say draw a character. In this case, we're going to be sticking with women with eyes that have absolutely no eye lids at all. You give the character a very frightened wide-eyed sort of look. On the other hand, if you were to draw a female character, who in this case eyes are down very low. This could be a couple of different things. Obviously, the eyebrows will determine a lot about what happens later on with the character. For now, the character either looks sleepy or mischievous. We can end up turning this into a lot of different things depending on what we end up doing with the eye brows. You see how the eyelids are very, very important when trying to decide the look of your character and what they're going to end up being. For this drawing, I'm going to go with just a standard look. I'm not going to give our character too much expression and not give her too little either. Remember, the most important thing about drawing the eyes other than making sure you've figured out exactly what kind of emotion you want your character to have. One of the most important things as well is giving the characters eyes life. They way you do that is if you leave a little white space in the middle of the pupil. It looks basically like the reflection of whatever is in the room. The more detail you add to it, the more interesting and life like it looks. We're just going to give our character a little bit of a starry eyed look in her eyes. We'll move on to the rest of the eye now, going to next, the lashes.
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