How to Draw Eyes

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm David Clemen on behalf of Expert Village. Today we are going to draw the face. Now that we have the nose in place, and we have our guideline for where things line up, I just want to show you a technique on my face to give an indicator on where things line up on the face. For example, the edge of the nose here, if I take my fingers and slide them straight up, will give me the tear duct on my eyes. So they line up. Now if I take my fingers to the sides of my eyes and run them all the way out to the side of my head, it runs to the top of my ears. If I go to the bottom of my ears, and bring my fingers in to the bottom of my nose, these are all guide lines that help me line things up. Now I'm going to line up, I'm going to place the eye. I'm going to look at the eye on this photo and on the middle line that we drew earlier, that is where I'm going to start my, the tear duct. I'm just going to make an imaginary line here and then I'm just going to see here and indicate the eyelid. Then she has a really exaggerated eyelid because of makeup and so forth. Then I'm going to come in and draw the pupil. Threes a glare from probably the lights and so forth that the photographer used, so ill fill that in and draw the tear duct. Just indicate the eyelashes until I go into more detail. Same thing, I can go straight up from the nostril and draw the eye there. Go out, get her eyelid and then do the pupil placement. Notice I'm not drawing the full circle of the pupil or the iris. I'm only drawing only about three-quarters of it. That's a common mistake that people make is drawing the eye with the full iris. That doesn't look real because the eyelid will usually cover the eye. So just keep that in mind. Draw the pupil there. The iris would come out this way. Now we have our eye placement."