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I'm sorry, I couldn't post a completed drawing. I set a goal for myself to try and post everyday, so instead of the Happiness drawing that I wanted to post today, I had to make an eye tutorial. This tutorial is merely for one style of drawing manga eyes. Different techniques are used, and this is just one of many.

Here's a step by step tutorial:

1) Draw an upward curving line. The curve depends on how curved you want the eye be. It's essentially a guide line. But it will be blended with the rest of the upper eyelid.

2) Thicken the upper eyelid, add lashes to the front of the eye. I don't know why, but I just draw it this way.

3) Draw the lower lid. Uh, I don't really know how to describe that part since I just eyeball it. If it looks unnatural, erase and try again. That's all I have to say.

4) Now this step is a matter of preference. I know some people like to draw the iris and the pupil before drawing in highlights, but I personally feel more comfortable with drawing the highlights first, because I hate erasing unless it's absolutely necessary.

5) Draw the outside of the iris. Make sure that the upper part of the iris is covered by the upper lid because with human eyes, the entire iris doesn't show. If the entire iris is showing, it appears wide-eyed, and the only times the entire iris is shown is when someone is shocked, scared, or just plain insane,
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The bottom part of the iris doesn't have to be covered by the lower lid. You can if you want, but it gives the appearance that the eye is half-closed. Covering the bottom part is good when the person is squinting, crying, sad, angry, smiling, or tired.

6) Draw a downward curving line just below the highlight. This the bottom part of the pupil, so it should be in the center of the eye. The pupil doesn't take up the entire width of the iris, so it should only be in the center.

7) Shade in the upper half of the eyeball, enclosed by the pupil line and the iris line. Try not to shade too dark if you want to have a gradient effect.

8) To have the gradient effect, make sure that the top of the pupil is much darker than the rest of the iris and pupil. This is caused by the shadow of the upper eyelid. Blend between the base shading and the dark shading. Darken the pupil line. You can also leave a lighter area just above the pupil line. This is just a highlight and can help counter the "blank-eyed" effect one occasionally gets.

9) Lightly shade the lower half of the eye. This is the iris so if you want to have a colored eye, use colored pencils on this half.

10) This time for the gradient effect, shade darker on the outer rim of the iris. This is because the outside of the iris is always darker, no matter what the eye color. You can also erase a little of the shading just underneath the pupil line to add emphasis to it.

11) Add eyelashes, the eyelid, and the eyebrow. The eyelid can be a double lid or a single lid. It doesn't really matter.

12) Lightly shadow the edges of the eye because eyeballs are round and are darker on the edges. Shadow lightly underneath the eyelid and slightly darker underneath the eyebrow.

And you're done! I'm sorry, my explaining and the example wasn't very good, but I hope it helped. Remember that this is only how I do my eyes. There are infinite ways of drawing eyes and varies with each person. Have fun!

Oh yeah, I just learned something interesting about myself. I suck at drawing any kind of happy emotion. Depressing emotions? Yes. happy? No. What's wrong with me.

Description
I'm sorry, I couldn't post a completed drawing. I set a goal for myself to try and post everyday, so instead of the Happiness drawing that I wanted to post today, I had to make an eye tutorial. This tutorial is merely for one style of drawing manga eyes. Different techniques are used, and this is just one of many.

Here's a step by step tutorial:

1) Draw an upward curving line. The curve depends on how curved you want the eye be. It's essentially a guide line. But it will be blended with the rest of the upper eyelid.

2) Thicken the upper eyelid, add lashes to the front of the eye. I don't know why, but I just draw it this way.

3) Draw the lower lid. Uh, I don't really know how to describe that part since I just eyeball it. If it looks unnatural, erase and try again. That's all I have to say.

4) Now this step is a matter of preference. I know some people like to draw the iris and the pupil before drawing in highlights, but I personally feel more comfortable with drawing the highlights first, because I hate erasing unless it's absolutely necessary.

5) Draw the outside of the iris. Make sure that the upper part of the iris is covered by the upper lid because with human eyes, the entire iris doesn't show. If the entire iris is showing, it appears wide-eyed, and the only times the entire iris is shown is when someone is shocked, scared, or just plain insane,
see [link]
The bottom part of the iris doesn't have to be covered by the lower lid. You can if you want, but it gives the appearance that the eye is half-closed. Covering the bottom part is good when the person is squinting, crying, sad, angry, smiling, or tired.

6) Draw a downward curving line just below the highlight. This the bottom part of the pupil, so it should be in the center of the eye. The pupil doesn't take up the entire width of the iris, so it should only be in the center.

7) Shade in the upper half of the eyeball, enclosed by the pupil line and the iris line. Try not to shade too dark if you want to have a gradient effect.

8) To have the gradient effect, make sure that the top of the pupil is much darker than the rest of the iris and pupil. This is caused by the shadow of the upper eyelid. Blend between the base shading and the dark shading. Darken the pupil line. You can also leave a lighter area just above the pupil line. This is just a highlight and can help counter the "blank-eyed" effect one occasionally gets.

9) Lightly shade the lower half of the eye. This is the iris so if you want to have a colored eye, use colored pencils on this half.

10) This time for the gradient effect, shade darker on the outer rim of the iris. This is because the outside of the iris is always darker, no matter what the eye color. You can also erase a little of the shading just underneath the pupil line to add emphasis to it.

11) Add eyelashes, the eyelid, and the eyebrow. The eyelid can be a double lid or a single lid. It doesn't really matter.

12) Lightly shadow the edges of the eye because eyeballs are round and are darker on the edges. Shadow lightly underneath the eyelid and slightly darker underneath the eyebrow.

And you're done! I'm sorry, my explaining and the example wasn't very good, but I hope it helped. Remember that this is only how I do my eyes. There are infinite ways of drawing eyes and varies with each person. Have fun!

Oh yeah, I just learned something interesting about myself. I suck at drawing any kind of happy emotion. Depressing emotions? Yes. happy? No. What's wrong with me.