Hello Everyone and Welcome to an in depth look at drawing the eye.
In this tutorial, Tim Von Rueden takes you through his process of understanding and drawing the eye. We go through and explain how you would draw the eye from any angle and feel confident in creating them on your own characters and pieces. Also included is the eye reference sheet that came bundled with the Natalia series and a .abr of the brushes used in this tutorial.
Below are some stills of the process and tutorial
1. The eyeball itself is a sphere and should be treated as so remembering that the iris is concaved.
2. The skin encases the eyeball and the upper and lower lids are created from the skin folding back into the eye
3. Shading the eye and adding the eyelashes
4. The shadow/lights steps that the eye forms create.
The result.
It looks like you did some modeling for the reference. Thanks for taking one for the team so to speak! I know if it were me it would take a good deal of convincing to do the modeling so I’m not joking and being sincere.
Haha thanks, It was easier knowing it was just eye shots but i agree sometimes it’s really hard to convince someone to help you take reference shots for you.
OK Tim… speechless…
Thanks a lot for passing on your knowledge to us lesser artistically ‘abled’ and for all those other ones you’ve made.
BTW, as for the anatomy thing, there was this one tutorial training series that made us learn the human skeleton in detail (by the end of it I could draw a pretty convincing skulduggery pleasant)and then the muscle tissue and how that wrapped around the skeleton and finally the skin. Could you make something similar (if you want to of course) as only the skeleton part of it was free. Of course it doesn’t have to be free, you could make it citizen or something like a training series. Only if you want to of course.
(SORRY FOR LONG POST)
Lol actually this anatomy series that your mentioning of is already on my future courses to complete. I think understanding the anatomy is so crucial for being an artist and I am more than ready to produce the series for everyone on concept cookie!
Hey Tim,
That is a GREAT idea! That is certinly a course I would be interested in. Thanks Hazzman, for your comment.
-OldMan44
I like the birds in the background, they made it a really peaceful tutorial. Thanks again for another great tut Tim!
Thanks! The birds were a complete accident, I sat next to the window when I gave this tutorial and they happened to be chirping away outside
I must say this is one of the best tutorials i have ever seen for me as an totally novice in the art of drawing. I really appreciate that you actually took your time to explain why did things instead of just saying how you did it.
But the criticizer in me must point out that i think the muscle thing in the eye probably should be a bit lower, correct me if i’m wrong.
what a wonderful eye. i love it. congratulation.