|
>>
|
Lilac High Milk
d560d6
>>693
Indeed.
>>692
Here's a quick doodle of some eyes, however.
Placement-wise, eyes are halfway up the face. If you're sketching out body shapes beforehand like a good little drawfag, they belong pretty much on the centreline, either side of the cross. I'm not a good little drawfag for quick sketches so I tend to draw the nose/eyes FIRST to anchor the entire head position/orientation. (Remember to foreshorten if the head is rotated.)
Because I use brushes which are far too big on canvases which are far too small, I don't even draw distinct eyes; I let the surrounding spectacles define the outline. Otherwise that area of the picture would be far too overdetailed and noisy.
Human eyes are spheres, duh, but the actual exposed area is closer to a rectangle at rest. They're cut away at the sides by the nose/tearduct and the ends of the slit in your face skin; at the top by the eyelid and brow (skull, not hair---go poke your face and note that the eyes are recessed for protection); and at the bottom by the eyelid and cheek pushing skin up---bags under the eyes usually sink to conform roughly to the remaining space. Even Angry Drawfag HD here is highly simplified. >>694 is largely right if you want realistic detail. Beware eyelashes for they will make anything look effeminate.
More stylized eyes include taking the top/bottom lines of a more-rectangular eye and leaving them open on the outer ends, which leaves a greater proportion of detail on the centre of the eye and helps avoid them looking too 'busy' overall. You can do it the other way around, pinching the outside edge, which tends to give a feminine shape and hint at lashes, which is why people mistake Liar's avatar for a female. (If you're cramped for space, you can flip this round and reduce it down to just the overline and a thicker patch where the pupil lies, possibly with a slight hint at the inner edge.)
And then there are plain old round eyes, which are pure cartoon, but some people can make work for them. And, if you really want to fail, there's the mono-eye, for when your life has reached the point at which drawing Sonic the Hedgehog fanart sounds like a good idea.
|