Here’s a quick step by step tutorial on how to improve your drawing skills.
Step 1: Draw an outline of the iris and pupil, eyelid, eyebrow, etc. Take your time as you draw the circles, it’s ok to mess up.
Step 2: Shade the whole drawing with a light coat, so later on you’ll be able to erase out white parts to make the eye glossy and realistic. Make sure you darkened that pupil the hardest you can. It’s much easier using copy paper because its smoother and easier to erase.
Step 3: Use a kneaded eraser in order to make slight highlights wherever you erase.
Step 4: When drawing the eyelashes, you’ll want to make them looped upwards. Perspective is work on the lashes, so when you draw them facing the viewer, loops vary. Best way is to try to look at the mirror or look at magazines for reference. The right side of the lid should be full of lashes, flowing in the right direction. The lashes fade off as it reaches near the tear duct, where they drastically shorten.
Step 5: Add details around the iris with curved lines to add more depth to your drawing.
Step 6: Shape the eyebrows according to the eye’s proportion, then shade.
Step 7: Continue shading and erasing…
Step 8: You may carefully start using your fingers to smudge your drawing in order to smoothen the pencil strokes. Don’t be afraid to smudge the highlights, you have your kneaded eraser to bring the highlights back
Step 9: With careful darkening, this is what you should result with. Take your time and look over your drawing for possible fixtures. Look back at your reference as well. Why not listen to music as you draw? It might inspire you to let excitement flow in your creativity stream.
Step 10: I recommend using the darkest variation of graphite pencils. For this drawing, I used 6B, 3HB, B. I hope you all enjoyed this tutorial! Have fun and good luck!
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