How to Draw an Eye in Pencil

Artist: artistperson95 / April 4, 2010
How to Draw an Eye in Pencil

Step 1.


OK, so in this step, basically all you need to do is lightly sketch the shape of the eye. There's not much to it, but you do want to spend some time just to make sure this part is exactly how you want it, or the completed drawing will not look good.

Step 2.


Here you just want to draw in the iris and pupil, sketch in where you want the highlights to be, and lightly shade in a base tone for the iris.

Step 3.


In the third step, you should shade under the eye lid a little bit and shade in the pupil. Also, you should draw some lines coming out of the pupil going towards the edge of the iris like you see in the picture.

Step 4.


Here you want to add shading to the outer edge of the iris with lines that go toward the pupil. There should still be part of the iris that is the base tone, which you should accent by adding a shadow underneath to give it depth. That sounds confusin   

Step 5.


This might look like a big difference, but just add eye lashes by drawing thick lines that taper to a point. They should dip down before going up to give it more realism. The bottom eyelashes should be smaller and clumped together a little bit. I als   

Step 6.


This is just adding final touches. Darken all the darks to really dark to give the picture contrast. Make sure your highlights are really highlighted. You can make a reflection of the eyelashes in the highlight in the iris if you want. You can either   

Comments (14)
MysticCoralisticMJ · 3 years ago
OMG THE LaST sTEP THe PicTURe?! THe DA DE DI DO DU DA.... THE IRIS WAS TURNING SMALL AND BIG aNd BIG AND AN N NNN n SMaLL AND N NA Nu Na N BIg aNd AND....... :x_x: :omgomg: T_T :drool: T_T :wow: :jawdrop:
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Jaime1320 · 3 years ago
I love this tutorial, I use it sooooooooo much. started drawing this in biro aswell :rock:
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Rose1Drawer · 4 years ago
:watermelon: :wow: :3 :omgomg: :boogie:
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jessicazannoni · 4 years ago
:jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop:
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Catelincat · 4 years ago
:boogie: This really helped a lot! I couldn't draw eyes for beans before. Thanks!
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Artist: artistperson95
Date Added: April 4, 2010
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Tags: draw eyes, draw realistic, how to draw eyes, how to pencil draw
Description: Eyes are one of the most popular and fun things to draw, so even though there are already some tutorials posted about drawing eyes, I thought I might make a pretty complex one and show some cool techniques that I use to draw eyes. I focused mainly on the iris in this tutorial because it is what I think gives the eye a realistic look if drawn well.

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