Sketching - Draw an eye & Lines

This series of articles are the notes taking of this udemy course. This article is about starting with drawing an eye and then lines in arts.

Draw An Eye

Procedures

  1. Start with the basic shapes of the eye, the eyebrow, the ball and the core.
  2. Then add shadows on the edges, darken the lines, find the fixed shapes.
  3. Color the core of the ball, adding more shades, figure out the reflection part in the ball, the muscules, and even more shades.
  4. Start drawing lines in eyebrow to make it authentic, also start coloring the eyeball, learn how to control the different kinds of shades, dark or light, tight or loose.
  5. Draw eyelashes, understand how eyelashes grows from the eyelid and has different angles.
  6. Even draw the reflection of eyelashes in the eye.

Key Notes

  1. Don’t work on a single part for too long. It will make the part dispatched from the rest. Make sure you are working all over the places.
  2. Always start with light lines to find the shape, don’t be too fixed at the beginning.
  3. Have a sense of shades and shadows.

What I drew

An Eye

Lines

Key Notes

  1. Contour lines are lines that fix the shape of the objects.
  2. There are different kinds of lines, dark, light, straight, curved, cornered, etc.
  3. Use different lines make the art much better.
  4. Practice draw the shape of objects using single line without looking at your work when you draw, instead stick at the object you are drawing.