Eyes are the mirror of a person's soul. Drawing them realistically is a very delicate matter. This is exactly what we will talk about in this article. You will learn about how to draw

It is necessary to pay attention to every detail, otherwise the result will be unnatural. Prepare everything necessary tools: a sharp pencil, a fine-tipped eraser and a sheet of paper. Now let's look at how to draw realistic eyes.

In order to succeed desired result, the artist must understand. It is a small sphere that is located in the eye socket and covered by eyelids, the gap between them is the palpebral fissure. The inner corner, located closer to the nose, is always rounded and has a sharp end. The outer one - the one closer to the ear - should be pointed. The upper eyelid should be at or slightly above the pupil, it slightly covers. If you draw the pupil in the center of the palpebral fissure, the eyes will look bulging and the drawing will turn out unnatural.

How to draw eyes with a pencil

So, let's get to work. The visual organ as a whole is a bit like an ellipse. We perform the following actions:

1. Using very light strokes, we begin to sketch out the eye as shown in the figure.

If you are interested in the question of how to draw a girl’s eyes, follow the instructions below:

• the upper eyelid from the inner corner of the eye and the lower eyelid from the outer corner of the visual organ are a straight line, equal to approximately 1/3 of the length of the visual organ;
• if you draw a horizontal line along the center of the eye, the outer corner of the eyelid will be slightly raised, which is not necessary in drawing, but can give the look a slight trick;
• the area of ​​the upper eyelid from the inner corner should be slightly concave, which will add sophistication to the design.

2. Taking into account all of the above, we create the outline of the iris, pupil and highlights. Shade it as shown in the picture below.

3. Now you need to paint over the darkest areas of the eye. First of all, this is the pupil. Don't forget to leave a highlight on it! Look at the original drawing and darken the necessary places in your work.

4. Create dark rays by drawing thin lines with a sharp pencil.

5. Lightly blend the iris with your finger, but do it very carefully.

6. Now take an eraser. Using its sharp end, add a few natural light rays to the iris.

7. An artist who knows how to draw eyes realistically with a pencil must understand that the white of the eye cannot be completely snow-white! Add some gray.

8. Now work with the eyelids: add dark and light tones to them, then blend.

9. Now we draw the upper eyelashes. They should be slightly arched and necessarily have different lengths. They grow from the upper eyelid and end just above the lower one.

10. Light movements create thin lower eyelashes. If you are interested in how to draw eyes with a pencil so that they turn out natural, it is important to know the following: eyelashes cannot be perfectly even. In some places they are more bent, in others they lie carelessly. This is where a piece of natural beauty lies.

How to draw eyes with a pencil. Brows

1. Sketch out the eyebrows.

2. Shade and blend the area underneath up to the upper eyelid. The area under the lower eyelid is treated using the same principle.

3. Draw the main hairs, then add some small ones.

4. Lightly blend your eyebrows.

Now you know one way to create realistic eyes. You will definitely succeed!

Some people think that transferring an image onto a sheet of paper is highest art, which is inaccessible to the average person. Knowing the little tricks of skilled artists, everyone will know how to draw eyes with a pencil. The human visual organ consists of the eyeball, upper and lower eyelids. The eye is drawn in the shape of an elongated ellipse, with slight bends in the form of a drop near the nose.

The drawing technique consists of creating additional lines, on the basis of which each part of the organ will be drawn. First you need to draw 3 concentric circles. The first one should have a radius that is 3 times the radius of the middle circle.

The small circle is the pupil, the second is the iris, and the third will limit the eyelid and eyebrow line. Draw the line of the upper and lower eyelids in the form of an elongated ellipse. The upper part should slightly cover the moving part of the eye. Just below the top arc great circle draw a line for the overhanging edge of the eyelid.

Let's draw some lines a little.

Draw a parallel line for the lower eyelid where the eyelashes grow. Highlight the pupil with black, leaving a highlight near it. Design the iris: draw lines of different lengths in the middle of the eye, shade them.

Now it's the turn of the century zone. Use light strokes to shade each line.

Draw a row of eyelashes on the upper eyelid.

We do the same with the bottom one.

All that remains is to finish drawing the eyebrow. It should start at the level of the nose and make a slight bend a little further than half of the eye. At the beginning of the line, draw several hairs; shade the area, carefully separating the hairs in some places.

Many people miss small but important details of the structure of the eye when presenting it schematically. For example, many people forget to draw the third eyelid in the corners of the eyes near the nose, or that the eyelid usually casts a shadow on the iris. If you want to learn how to draw, I recommend starting to draw from memory, rather than copying someone’s eye from a photograph, then you will consciously remember the basic principles.

First, mark a barely noticeable horizontal line on a piece of paper (later we will erase it), the entire drawing will be built from it, but during construction it serves as a guide.

Now we draw the outline of the eyes, which will also be the boundaries for the eyelids. Please note that the pupil in the human eye is not located exactly in the middle of the eye, but is shifted slightly upward. This is very important for creating a realistic look.

When the main boundaries are outlined, you can start shading. To do this, it is better to change the pencil and take one as soft as possible so that the shading is dense without pressure. Mark in advance a highlight on the iris that will slightly “overshadow” the pupil; there is no need to shade this area (erasing dense shading is a hassle!).

Have you shaded the pupil? Let's move on to the iris, shade it thin lines without going beyond the boundaries of the glare. It should always remain the brightest part of your eye, this will give it a realistic "wetness". There is no need to try to draw everything perfectly at once, to draw out every line, you need to create the general appearance of the eye, outline how the light falls on it.

Let's move on to centuries. Do not apply shading sudden movements, but in long lines, following the smooth shape of the eyelids. This will immediately give them impressive volume. Do not press hard on the pencil, but rather use shading to shade all the shaded details.

This can be a thick napkin or a piece of clean fleecy cloth. But don't start shading with dark details like the pupil, it will get dirty and then mess up the whole drawing! First we shade the lightest parts, the sequence is as follows: the eyelid, the white of the eye, then the iris and only finally the pupil.

The eye turned out well, but may look a little pale. To “revive” it, you need to add a few details. Make a clearer and more pronounced contour of the iris, shade the outer and inner side eyelids, slightly darken the areas of the iris adjacent to the pupil and its outer circumference.

Just don’t make all the strokes the same, they should be of different lengths and thicknesses, then the look will sparkle with lively sparkles. Don't forget about the third eyelid. There is often glare in the corner of the eye. Just use an eraser to erase a small spot to create a highlight, but not as bright as on the iris.

Finally the eyelashes. We draw them only last, otherwise they will interfere with shading the eyelid! Real eyelashes are never straight, they are always slightly curved. We start drawing the eyelashes from the upper eyelid, draw slightly curved arches (the length of the eyelashes is different for each person, it all depends on your desire, but do not overdo it). Then we slightly thicken the base of each to give them thickness and volume. Don't forget to tilt your eyelashes according to the shape of your eyelids!

How to draw eyes with a pencil? Each of us has a rough idea of ​​what it looks like human eye and can draw at least this primitive image:

But, since you are puzzled by the question of how to draw an eye step by step, apparently you want to get more.

First, I advise you to go to the mirror and carefully examine your eyes. Simply studying an object always reveals a lot of new things. I remember school lesson drawing, in which we were given a task. I drew the best I could and brought it to the teacher for checking. And Natalya Maksimovna advised me to take a close look at her eyes. “Pay attention,” she said, “we have eyelids and folds under the eyes. They need to be drawn too.” At that moment it became a real discovery for me - it turns out that if you look at something with all your attention, and not just scribble from memory, the object will reveal its new facets to us. You just need to add a few details and the eye starts to look completely different. He becomes more alive, real.

Over the next few years, until I graduated from school, I drew a lot of self-portraits sitting in front of the mirror. And the more the hand worked with the pencil, the better the result. Gradually, the drawing and the reflection in the mirror began to resemble each other, which was initially not observed at all. The longer I painted, the less doubt I had about choosing a profession. I definitely wanted to be.

In this lesson I want to show you how to draw realistic eyes, the volume of eyeballs, and pupils. If you understand the structure of the eye, then everything will become easier and more understandable.

The eye is based on a ball, which is hidden in a special hole in the skull (orbit). The ball cannot be illuminated evenly. Some part of it will be in the shadow, some in the light, and between light and shadow there is a territory of chiaroscuro. Accordingly, the white in front of the eyes (the white field around the colored circle) will not be uniformly white. Below I will demonstrate this more clearly.

The iris of the eye, the same one that can be green, blue, brown and in rare cases purple, is a rounded bulge extending beyond the eyeball. Accordingly, it will be unevenly illuminated. In fact, the iris does not stick out from the ball that much, but I exaggerated for clarity.

On top of the eyes there is skin that covers most of the eyeball and forms folds - the upper and lower eyelids.

Want to learn how to draw a child's eyes? How are they different from the eyes of an adult? Look at the photo below. The iris of babies seems much larger in size than that of an adult. In fact, children have a smaller eye shape - a hole between the eyelids through which you can see eyeball. Over time, as the child grows up, the incision will increase and the eyes will “grow up.” And, as a rule, children's eyes are wide open. They look at the world in surprise and do not judge anyone. Kids are simply saturated with information about the place in which they live.

Gradually, under the influence of society, a person’s character is formed. “Mirror of the Soul” acquires its own special features. Some people have laughing eyes, others have stern ones. You drown in someone's eyes like in the sea. They are bottomless and attractive. But there are eyes that you want to turn away from and never look into them again, because there is nothing there except emptiness or malice.

We will draw big beautiful eyes. How to draw eyes step by step?

Draw 2 parallel lines and divide them into 3 equal segments. Why 3? The distance between the eyes is equal to the length of one eye. It may be a little more or a little less.

For most people, the inner corner of the eye is slightly lower than the upper corner. In other words, people's eyes are a little slanted. This “slantness” is most strongly expressed among the peoples of Asia - the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Mongols... However, it is also present among Europeans.

The inner corner of the eye is somewhat narrowed. Here is the so-called lacrimal caruncle - a small area Pink colour. Everyone's eye shape is very different. I draw the girl's rather large eyes.

We mark the area that will be occupied by the same tear caruncle on the inner corners of the eyes. Then we draw the iris in the form of a circle. As a rule, the iris is not completely visible. It is partially hidden under the upper eyelid. If you want to draw frightened eyes, which are filled with horror, do the opposite - hide part of the iris under the lower eyelid, and leave free space between the upper eyelid and the iris.

Now we draw the pupil exactly in the center of the iris. The size of the pupil depends on the light level. How brighter light, the smaller the pupil. In the dark, when a person peers somewhere, the pupil becomes 2 times larger. Draw the upper and lower eyelids. The shape and width of the eyelid is different for all people. In older people, the upper eyelid may become completely invisible due to overhanging brow ridges. The fold of the lower eyelid is not so noticeable, but at least, in young people. With age, all wrinkles become more pronounced.

In order for the eyes to look more expressive, they need a beautiful frame, or rather eyebrows. The distance between the eyebrows is greater than the length of the eye. The outer ends of the eyebrows extend beyond the outer corner of the eye. Of course, everyone’s eyebrows are different, but, as a rule, they are adjusted to modern canons of beauty with the help of cosmetics. In the Middle Ages, women shaved their eyebrows. This is such a strange fashion requirement... Perhaps in 100 years they will laugh at our ideas about beauty. Who knows…

In our drawing, the light will fall from the right. We mark the highlights on the iris. These are the lightest spots on the eyes. If you look at your eyes in the mirror, you will see how shiny they are. Why is the glare on the iris? Because the iris is the most convex area of ​​the eye and receives the most light.

Now let's start shading the eyes. We take a sharpened HB pencil (hard-soft) and use neat strokes to fill in the entire drawing, except for the highlights in the eyes.

Gradually build up the tone by changing the direction of the stroke.

We darken the eyebrows, irises, upper and lower eyelids on the left (shadow) side.

We slightly darken the areas on the sides of the nose. We continue to darken the eyes and eyebrows layer by layer.

Now let's draw the eyelashes, some of which are shorter, others longer. We draw eyelashes with short strokes from their roots to the eyebrows.

Make the lash line on the upper eyelid darker. This will give your eyes expressiveness.

Now let's get to the fun part. Let's take soft pencil(I used 5B) and darken several areas, namely the pupil in the middle of the eye, the iris, focusing Special attention outer edges. We will also darken the eyelash line and the eyelashes themselves on the upper eyelid. Let's highlight the lower eyelashes a little. Let's also make the eyebrow a little darker. As you can see, the eye has come to life. The difference between the right and left parts of the picture is obvious.

In this lesson we will show you how to draw with a pencil realistic eye and give the skin texture.

So, let's begin:

Using a soft pencil, draw the contours of the eye.

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Dip a soft brush into graphite powder and cover the design with it in 2-3 layers, thereby creating a tone. You can take a brush of any size, the main thing is that it is soft and well fills the grain of the paper. Based on the intensity of the tone, we focus on the iris of the eye - if the tone turns out to be very dark, lighten it with a soft eraser.

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Take a smaller brush and apply color to the eyes, working on the shadow areas in detail.

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Use a soft eraser to wipe off the glare area.

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Using a soft pencil (2B) draw the darkest areas - the shadow in the crease of the upper eyelid and in the upper part of the iris.

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Using a very hard pencil (5H) draw the iris. A hard pencil is necessary so that in the further process of drawing the lines do not become smeared or rubbed out.

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Again, take a soft pencil (2B) and draw the dark areas of the iris with it.

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Now we will need it again soft brush— we work on the shape of the eye: we intensify and deepen the colors, we detail the shape. The white of the eye also needs to be darkened, giving it a shape - to do this, take a hard pencil (5H) and strengthen the lines of transition from the eyelid to the white.

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It's time to work on the texture of the skin. Take a pencil of medium hardness (HB), add tones to the upper eyelid and the skin around it with light circular movements - you should start with the darker areas, i.e. from the crease of the eyelid. To smooth out roughness, use shading and a hard brush.

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We carry out similar actions with the lower eyelid.

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Additionally, we enhance the shadows on the entire surface of the eye - for this we take a medium-hard HB pencil. To work out the thickness of the lower eyelid, we need a 5H pencil and finally, using 2B, we will work out the shadows on the same lower eyelid.

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To convey realism to the skin, we’ll add a network of small wrinkles. To do this, use an HB pencil to draw small light lines, then carefully use an eraser to slightly lighten a small area next to each wrinkle. To make everything look natural and to hide the artifacts of eraser marks, use a brush and shading. Let’s use the same technique for detailing the protein eyes and tear duct. Using the same pencil (HB), we draw the eyebrows - we draw each eyebrow hair, reducing the pressure on the pencil towards the tip of the hair.

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The last step will be drawing the eyebrows. Once the skin is finished, you can start! The upper eyelashes are always darker than the lower ones, and also darker than the eyebrows. We use a 2B pencil (a little softer is possible), draw eyelashes following the growth of the hair, reducing the pressure on the pencil at the end of each hair. Don't forget to draw the reflection of the eyelashes on the iris.

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Draw the lower eyelashes with a 2B pencil.

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Final touches - if necessary, lighten the lower eyelid slightly with an elastic band.

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If you get lost at a certain point or something doesn’t work out the first time, don’t despair, but rather try again.
We hope this lesson on drawing an eye with a pencil was useful to you!