Manga eyes details: how to draw manga tutorials

October 7, 2009 by r2moo2
Filed under: How to draw manga tutorials

Today I am going to share how to add little details to manga eyes. This is in addition to what I shared before in How to draw manga easily: Eye drawing (part 2).

Once again, this topic will also be for beginners.

Manga eyes details: how to draw manga tutorials

Notice it starts from number 5; as it is a continuation of my previous posts, the beginning steps are found in How to draw manga easily: Eye drawing (part 2).

Let us run through some of the steps:

5. Add a little “U” in the middle of the iris to depict the pupil. There are variations to this step. We can actually draw a little oval in the middle of the iris and shade instead, however this is just for simplicity’s sake.

6. Shade half the eye as shown. Usually the top half of manga eyes are darker than the bottom half, because of shadow. We can add a little tone by lightly shading the bottom half.

7. Add eye lashes on the side of the eyes as shown, if you are drawing female characters. We can add eye lashes all across the eye lids, but this is just personal preference. In my opinion, adding eye lashes across the eye lids makes the face look too exaggerated and fake, so I will stick with just adding eye lashes at the side of the eyes.

This is an example of adding some details to manga eyes.

Sorry but I forgot the eye lashes.

Final Words for this post

I wasn’t thinking of preparing this topic at first, but I claimed a page at Mahalo.com on how to draw manga eyes. There are other things to cover as well, like manga eyes in different profiles etc, however I know how to draw them but I don’t know how to show them to the public yet.

So all these will be covered in future.

And its time to share a little about my personal life in regards to this manga journey. And this also will be shared soon.

Thanks for reading!

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