How to Draw Human Eyes in Cartoons

Series Summary

Do you ever wish you could earn a living drawing cartoon pictures? Learning to draw cartoons is a great start for anyone interested in a career in graphic design and illustration. People characters have long been a favorite subject matter for cartoonist. Adults and kids alike find humor in cartoon people not just because they’re cute or funny, but because they’re often portrayed with amusing characteristics.

In this series of free video art lessons, you’ll learn basic tips and techniques for drawing cartoon people. Artist, illustrator and expert cartoonist Daniel Bissell teaches a children's cartooning class and has written plays and sketches for stage productions. He guides you step-by-step, teaching you how to create lines, add shading and use proportion to draw some of the most popular cartoons. It’s not as difficult as you might think to create fun and engaging cartoon people. From drawing hair to character emotions, it’s all in this series. Follow the simple instructions in these online video clips and you’ll be drawing like a professional cartoonist in no time.

Video Transcript

"Let's start cartooning. We’re going to begin with the eyes which I think are the most important part. Because the eyes are the window to the soul and they can tell a story all their own. Now the pair of eyes that I use most and that you will probably come across the most is the basic eyes that are like this. You will see it in the Simpson's or South Park and they're just two basic circles sometimes overlapping other times they can be like this, a little wider apart. But you just have little black pupils to signify, "hey these are eyes". If you want to get a little more extensive, we can add in the irises. You can color those in any color we like. And when we're talking about eyes let's go ahead and throw in some eyelids too. As you can see just drawing a line over this we can see that, that extra skin is that eyelid and it's coming down a little bit and kind of a sleepy character going on. Another pair of eyes is very simple and that is just the pupils themselves. The little black dots. And those are used in Hanna-Barbera cartoons or Charlie Brown. We have those little things right there. And that basically is how you get started by drawing a simple pair of eyes."