The way forward is to absorb what you can from teachers you trust, but be prepared to adapt and improvise as you encounter unique problems… because you will. As similar as human beings are to one another, there’s still no one-size-fits-all instruction set for drawing eyes – or anything else. But that’s what learning to draw portraits is like. There will be plenty of times while drawing a model when you’ll encounter problems not mentioned here. I’ll try to take some variables into account, but remember these instructions are not universal. In this post, I’ll lay out the things I think about most when drawing eyes on a portrait. Mess up the eyes, and you’re suddenly stuck with a “bad drawing”, while the same degree of error in describing the neck or chin may go unnoticed by most viewers. It’s also where we look first in a portrait. We tend to approach the eyes in our drawings with lots of anxiety because they’re psychologically important to human beings.
Nevertheless, drawing convincing eyes is something a lot of students struggle with, often unnecessarily. Articles like this make me queasy because they seem to reinforce this way of thinking. Instead, we focus on “eyes”, “nose” and “mouth” too much, and forget about everything else. In truth, there’s as much structure to be observed on the model’s cheek or forehead as in the eyes, but we tend to be unaware of that (there aren’t many “How to Draw Foreheads” tutorials out there). Second, thinking in terms of “how to draw eyes” – as if the eyes are somehow privileged and separate from the rest of the face, head and body – breaks up the figure into artificial categories. Drawing well is usually more complicated than just following a list of formulaic steps that don’t take variables into account.
First, when you draw a portrait, things like the model’s individual morphology, our perspective as the viewer, and the lighting environment are different in every case, and can profoundly impact your decisions.
#EYEBALLS DRAWING HOW TO#
In my experience, the type of instructional content found in countless books, blogs and YouTube videos with titles like How To Draw ‘X’ is usually oversimplified and misleading. I’ve resisted writing this kind of post for a long time.
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