How to draw manga easily: Eye drawing (part 2)

September 9, 2009 by r2moo2
Filed under: How to draw manga tutorials, News

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How to draw manga easily: Eye drawing (part 2)

I am not going to use people’s work only to give a tutorial; they are there to illustrate my point because I just don’t have the technicality to pull off a great video. I don’t even have photoshop, so I just use ‘paint’ or at most ComicStudio Debut 4.0 to draw and edit.

Hence pardon me for it.

I have added an additional ‘How to draw manga easily’ category, for beginners who simply have no clue how to start drawing. I was like that initially, and I needed help, but thank God that I noticed how Mike Crilley drew his characters, and I just pulled it off from there.

Hence for eye drawing (part 2), I will give additional hints to eye drawing, and for the most part I would revisit abit what I spoke about in part 1; you can click here to see the previous post.

As you can see, I revisited the 5 steps found in the previous post to draw manga eyes. Step 4 and 5 is combined as it is easy to pull off; just follow the gradient of the eyelash and you will be fine.

Of course, this is a basic system. To experiment further, you can try two highlights, make the iris smaller and away from the eye lashes to give a different effect. But generally this is up to your own creativity and style. The example above is more suitable for ladies’ eyes.

And pardon me with the pencil and pen explanation. I am not so fluent with my ComicStudio Debut 4.0 and as I am now in my exams period, I have no intention to experiment with it till I have more time.

Notice I did not draw the pupil of the eye nor shade any part of the eye. In contrast to Mike Crilley’s YouTube demostration, he draws the pupils and shades the iris.

That is because I want to demostrate to beginners that you don’t have to focus on the pupil and shading to make a good eye. In fact, if you take a look at the manga picture at the very top of the post, you will notice that the author did not put in any pupil, while the gradual shading of the eye cannot be really seen there.

The pupil and the shading adds very good details to the eye for the eyes to look realistic. However, I have read many mangas, and some of them didn’t bother giving the shade and pupil of the eyes (I supposed they don’t have all the time in the world to give so definite details). Therefore for beginners, you can experiment it at your own time by following the YouTube video that is posted before.

Final eye drawing hint for this post

This is for beginners: why do we focus so much on the eyes of a manga or comic character? That is because the eyes are truly the windows to the soul; they determine the overall look of the character.

Emotions are portrayed primarily with the eyes, and the secondary effect is the mouth. Hence do a good pair of eyes, and you will have half a battle won for a good looking character.

That’s it for ‘how to draw manga easily: eye drawing (part 2)’. I know it can be really irritating for people who have drawing background to go through such basics, but for people who had no knowledge of drawing, it may benefit tremendously.

Hence do take note that ‘how to draw manga easily’ category will be purely for step-by-step instructions for beginners.

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