How To Draw Eyes

10 Amazing (and Easy!) Tutorials

Introduction

If you want to draw a human face, it’s important that you know how to draw eyes. The eyes are the most vital part of the face. By perfecting your eye drawing, you’ll be able to make your artwork look ten times better. This is exactly why I trained myself to perfectly draw the human eye. I did so by following a bunch of tutorials on YouTube. Prior to this, I faced a lot of difficulties while drawing eyes. These tutorials helped me develop my eye drawing skills, and I’m sure you too will benefit from them.

To draw an eye, you first start with the outline, and then work on the insides. The eyebrows and eyelashes are equally important here. The pupil is where a lot of your attention should be focused on. In order to add depth, you should use proper shades and shadows.

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Eye Drawing Tutorial for Beginners

Eye Drawing Tutorial for Beginners

We start things off with a simple, yet beautiful and realistic looking eye drawing. This tutorial is quite easy to follow, and doesn’t require any prior experience with drawing or sketching. The steps here are very simple, and although the drawing isn’t that detailed, it still manages to land a realistic look.

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Super Realistic Drawing of an Eye

Super Realistic Drawing of an Eye

This hyper realistic looking eye drawing is one of the most beautiful sketches you’ll ever see. It has so much depth and detailing in it that can make anyone fall in love with this art piece. The artist uses a precise combination of light and shades to create such an accurate field of depth. It’s almost as if you were looking into the eyes of an actual person. All that being said, I should warn you that this is quite a difficult thing to draw, and you’ll be better off working on it if you’re somewhat experienced with drawing and sketching with such high levels of detail.

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Drawing a Realistic Eye

Drawing a Realistic Eye

Here, we look at another realistic eye drawing with proper depth and detailing. The drawing seen here is achieved by playing around with the eyebrows. As you can see, the artist put in a lot of emphasis on the eyebrows, and tried to give them the same amount of attention as they had done with the eye itself. In addition to that, the pupil, and the reflection within the eye is also quite gorgeous to look at. This is indeed a difficult thing to draw, and I recommend you get some practice done before you sit down to replicate this particular eye drawing.

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Simple Eye Drawing Tutorial

Simple Eye Drawing Tutorial

If you’re looking to draw eyes in a simple and straightforward manner, this is the tutorial you’re looking for. It’s not too fancy nor does it require an extensive amount of detailing. The eyes shown in this tutorial can be drawn very easily with a bit of practice. Since it’s a drawing that doesn’t demand much in terms of experience, beginner level artists will feel quite comfortable while working on it.

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Detailed Pair of Closed Eyes

Detailed Pair of Closed Eyes

In this video tutorial, the artist will show you how to draw a pair of closed human eyes. Once again, the attention to detail is focused on the eyebrows. The drawing also has a subtle amount of pencil shading done near the eyelids, which helps to give the drawing its depth. All in all, it's a pretty straightforward tutorial, and with a bit of practice, you should be able to master it.

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Step by Step Eye Drawing Tutorial

Step by Step Eye Drawing Tutorial

In this step by step drawing tutorial, you'll be shown how to draw a perfect human eye in just 3 minutes. It's a tutorial that's targeted towards absolute beginners. The artist uses very basic techniques to get the job done. Despite the lack of details, the final eye drawing still manages to look quite gorgeous.

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Eye Drawing Tips and Tricks

Eye Drawing Tips and Tricks

Although this video is not necessarily an eye drawing tutorial, I still consider this to be an important lesson for anyone who's working on drawing the human eye. The video is basically about learning tips and tricks for drawing the human eye. By following these suggestions, you’ll be able to draw the human eye quite easily. I treat the suggestions in this video as a personal checklist. Every time I’m required to work on a human face, or even just the eyes, I take a quick peek at this list or the video itself, and then begin my work.

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A Beautiful Eye

A Beautiful Eye

In this video tutorial, the artist shows you how to draw an eye with a tear drop falling from it. It’s a very detailed artwork, and the use of pencil shading and shadows adds depth to it. The tutorial is very nicely arranged, and viewers won’t face any trouble in unpacking what’s been said and done here. It’s a difficult drawing to work on, and hence, I recommend you get through the basics first before you sit down for this one.

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Anime Style Eye Drawing Tutorial

Anime Style Eye Drawing Tutorial

Anime or manga style eyes are quite popular in Japan. These eyes are considered to be an indispensable part of this Japanese pop-culture field. This video tutorial will show you how to draw anime style eyes. You’ll get a very good idea as to how the eyes are constructed, and how they’re made to look attractive. You can also understand how, despite looking so unnatural, the eyes in anime or manga manage to attract so many people.

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A Wide Variety of Eye Drawing Styles

A Wide Variety of Eye Drawing Styles

Eyes in anime or manga aren’t always of a similar style or shape. In fact, the eyes vary greatly from artist to artist, or genre to genre. In this video, you’ll be given an in-depth tutorial on the various eye drawing styles. From large round eyes to more sharp edged ones, this video covers them all.

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The Navarro-Rubios

My husband and I are learning how to draw and paint. We wanted to share this learning process with the world and have fun! That's why we created this blog. We'll have drawing contests every week and you'll decide who won that week! Follow along and learn with us!

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Jimena & Iñigo

The Navarro-Rubios

My husband and I are learning how to draw and paint. We wanted to share this learning process with the world and have fun! That's why we created this blog. We'll have drawing contests every week and you'll decide who won that week! Follow along and learn with us!

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