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Page 2 - Portrait art tutorial - how
to draw eyes, step-by-step drawing
lesson. |

(Click on image to see full
version.)
Eyes are a
very important and evocative feature of the face! People will notice any
problems or flaws in your drawing of the eye, so special care needs to be
taken.

First off,
I want to show the depth of the eye, I've overlayed some red "contour
lines" on the eye sketch in the illustration above.
As you can
see, the eye is set in, starting with the eyebrow. Then, the upper lid
comes out a bit. The contour then dips in to allow for the thickness of
the upper eyelid.
The
eyeball itself is rounded. Then, the contour juts out because of the
thickness of the edge of the lower lid.


Now, this
looks pretty creepy. But I am trying to show the basic shape of the eye -
an "almond" shape. The red line shows that there is an angle to the shape
of the eye. The top of the eye has its widest point to the right, the
bottom of the eye has its widest point more towards the center, or left.
The red line is going through the widest areas of the upper and lower
parts of the eye, to show this angle.