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In this lecture we're gonna be talking about how to draw the eyes.

Now eyes can get very complicated and there's a lot that goes into understanding the eye but I'm just

gonna simplify it.

Just like I did with the rest of the body form.

Because when it comes to character design it's not necessarily super important that you know how to

draw a hyper realistic eye.

So we just want to make sure that we have an understanding of the shape and the form of the eye.

Stuff like that but we don't need to get into the nitty gritty details.

So let's go ahead and begin.

So let's go ahead and start by drawing a facing forward eye.

So when I draw an eye I usually like to just start by outlining kind of the shape of the eyelid and

a mistake that a lot of people make is they'll just kind of draw the eyelid kind of shaped like a football

or an almond type of shape.

But what you actually want to do is you want to kind of English downwards a little bit more so it is

almost like that type of a shape but it's a little bit different.

So what kind of point out the differences when you're drawing the eye so the first difference is that

this corner of the eye and that corner of the eye this is the tier doctor right there.

This is going to be lower than the side corner of the eye.

So rather than drawing those on the same plane you wanna make sure that it kind of angles downwards

a little bit.

Another thing is you're gonna get kind of this slight curve right here upwards and then back down.

So this kind of curves out more like that and also this bottom eyelid tends to be a little bit more

flat and less curved than the top eyelid the top eyelid is going to have a little bit more of an art

to it.

So the main thing that you want to remember is that the bottom eyelid is just a little less curved than

the top and the corners the back or the side corner is gonna be higher than the tier duck.

So those are the main things you want to remember when you're drawing the eyes then your eye should

look pretty accurate.

All right.

So once I have the shape of my eye drawn in then I like to draw out my iris.

So the IRS is just the colored part of the eye and I just kind of lately sketch that out first.

Then we can come back in and darken that detail

now some things you point out about the IRS is that you want the IRS to come down to the bottom of the

eyelid either touch it or just right above it.

But what you don't want is you don't want there to be any white showing above the IRS if you have white

showing above there.

It's going to look like your character is super surprised or stressed out or scared.

You want to make sure that the upper eyelid kind of hangs down over the top of the IRS by a little bit.

Then we want to go ahead Marco the pupil so that's just the big black dot in the middle of your eye

and then want to go ahead and we're gonna work out where we want the reflection to be.

So we want to do this before we fill in the IRS and before we fill in the pupil BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA

KEEP THE REFLECTION white.

So just kind of do a shape like that.

All right great.

And we can kind of do a little curved line like this for the tier duct and that'll be our Tier doctor

right there.

Then let's go ahead and let's draw out the eyelid.

So the eye is an eyeball obviously.

And so behind this eyelid and behind all of this skin around the eye is an actual ball.

And so the eyelids actually kind of wrap around that ball.

So that's what's happening here.

We draw from the side you're going to see that even more so this is the brow kind of hanging down like

that.

And we have a line there and we have a line there that just kind of represent the crease of the eyelid.

All right great.

And then we can go ahead and sketch sketching an eyebrow.

So generally I like to kind of sketch out the area of the brow muscle and the skull and all that.

So search from the tier ducting goes around to that corner which is kind of a big round shape like that

and you can use that to kind of base your eyebrow off of.

So I'm gonna go ahead and do the eyebrow something like this.

Now this is a female eye so I'm gonna make the eyebrows a little bit thinner and I'm also going to make

it a little bit more arch.

So we have a little bit more arch right there and there's all different types of eyebrows so when you

start drawing your own characters you're gonna want to look at a lot of reference study people in real

life and just get an idea of like what kind of eyebrows are out there and how you can exaggerate them.

All right so there's her eyebrow.

So now we can go ahead and darken this all and so I'll start by darkening it in the pupil.

You're going to fill that in completely dark

and I'll darken the outside ring of the IRS

and then I can also go ahead and darken up here.

So underneath the eyelid the upper eyelid you're gonna get dark shadow usually.

And also if your lighting is coming from the top that means the top of your iris is going to be dark

and shadow because the IRS is kind of shaped like a bowl.

I won't get too into that but just so you know the top of your eyelid or the top of your iris is typically

gonna be darker and it'll slowly fade out and to the lighter values down here at the bottom I mean kind

of fade this edge in as well that could add a little bit of shadow right there as well all right.

And then we can go ahead and darken in the upper eyelid for the eyelashes

through winter we've kind of sketched the individual hairs out a little bit more on this eyebrow.

And then the eyelashes just really quick.

I'm not gonna get super detailed with the eyelashes either but the eyelashes are basically they're gonna

come down and then back up and in the middle they'll be kind of straight up and down.

But as I get to the side they'll kind of start to curve out a little bit more so you'll actually get

to see a little bit more of their profile and looks kind of like that they're also gonna kind of criss

cross each other as well

something like that and then on the bottom eyelashes we're just kind of fanning out like this.

And they're a little bit shorter a little bit thinner.

Right.

Great.

So there you go.

They're just kind of a quick rundown of drawing the eye now.

What about if we want to draw the eye from the side view because that's gonna be a kind of a completely

different story.

Well let's go and try it.

So like I said the eye is an actual eyeball so we can start by actually drawing a circle to kind of

represent the eyeball and build everything off of that.

So right about in the middle right there we're gonna go ahead and draw a line like this.

What this is is this is representing the top eyelid.

I'll do a little curved right up there at the top to represent the eyelid and then we'll do the bottom

so the bottom will kind of come down like this.

It'll have a slight curve to it and then a little curve down there at the bottom like that.

Now we can go ahead and just kind of draw in the actual eyeball or at their

and then the eye lid has some thickness to it.

So it's gonna come out pretty far off the eyeball so there's the top eyelid and here's the bottom eyelid.

All right.

And the nose would be somewhere out here.

The bridge of the nose so we can kind of draw that and just so we have a little bit understanding about

what's going on there and then we have the eyebrow

curves around like that

and then we can go ahead and draw the IRS so the IRS is gonna come down like this.

Just touch the bottom of the bottom eyelid the top needs to be covered and then we'll go ahead and draw

the pupil in.

Now at this angle it's gonna be almost like a black slit and it's gonna be inwards a little bit because

the like I said the actual colored part of the IRS is kind of shaped like a bowl.

So all that area right there is basically clear that we can go ahead and shoot in this area right here

because that's the actual colored part and I made this clear area out here on the I.

And then for the eyelashes from the side view they're just gonna basically come off like this you're

going to really get that profile view of the eyelashes.

Same with on the bottom.

Just like like that.

And again it's really good to look at reference.

You don't just want to base everything off this I'm just kind of giving you an understanding of how

the eye is drawn but always look at a little bit of reference.

All right then lastly let's talk about how do you draw from three quarters or so.

An eye is a sphere like we really talked about.

And so if we draw a sphere like this we can imagine that the eye needs to kind of wrap around this.

So it needs to kind of if we were to draw our IRS right here on the front of it it's kind of like an

oval because of the perspective we're looking at.

And then we would basically kind of get the top eyelid wrapping around like this and then it come down

like that and we want to get this bottom eyelid kind of angled downwards

and then we get our Tier dog like that

and this iris might be a little bit too big so I'll just kind of redraw shrink down a little bit

get our island

and we can go ahead and sketch in our pupil.

We'll get a reflection in there as well but the reflection right about their shade all listen will darken

in that pupil

and we'll also get our eyelashes in their lips.

That was really long eyelashes right there shouldn't be that long.

Now we could even go ahead and kind of sketch in where the eyebrows would go something like that

but very roughly.

That's just how you draw the front view the side view and the three quarters view.

Just really quick I just want to talk about how this really plays into character design because a lot

of the times your characters aren't gonna necessarily look super accurate to what the actual human form

and face looks like but everything is based off of it.

So for example if we were to draw kind of a more Disney styled eye you can see that we can kind of start

off by sketching out a circle like this and we kind of sketch out that top eyelid that and we can go

ahead and kind of angle this downwards into the tier duct and then we can go ahead and draw in the bottom

eyelid like that

and maybe I'll angle this down a little bit more over here back and we can go head draw the iris and

so we're gonna get this eye nice big giant Iris

darken in the top eyelash just do a dark line down here just to simplify it for the bottom eyelashes

we can go ahead and sketch out kind of a reflection there and Iris

can darken all the Iverson

you can kind of see that we took the idea of this eye and we just simplified it and exaggerated things

so for example this bottom curve right here is pretty close to what the actual curve of a real eye would

be but up here we just really exaggerated how tall and how arched and how big that eye is.

We also made the IRS huge and we still got our islet in there.

We simplified the eyelashes just by doing simple dark lines like that we can see how we took it from

that to this.

So that's really what character design is all about is taking what you know about the real human form

and simplifying it exaggerating it and turning it into something that looks a little bit more appealing

and what you want it to look like.

That brings us to the end of this lecture.

If you have any questions make sure you post them to the Q and A session of the course and I'll see

you guys in the next lecture.