From the course: Figure Drawing: The Portrait
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Draw eyes
- Observing the eyes and visualizing them as a network of simple shapes will make it easier to draw them from multiple angles. Although I'm offering a simplified system for drawing the eye, every eye is different. It's important not to rely on some stereotype for the eye shape. Once you practice this conceptual system, you can then use it as a starting point and apply it to working from observation, making the necessary adaptations based on your model. So artists throughout the centuries have drawn pages of eyes. I love this sketch here. And what I want to show you to get started would be sort of a diagram of the parts of the eye. So, first of all, we're going to take a look at the overall shape of the eye, the overall shape of the eye we have to remember that the eye actually fits inside the eye socket. So there's this understanding that the region of the brow down by the side of the nose, and then down towards the…
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