How To Draw Manga EyesTo draw manga eyes is easier than you have ever imagined and, you’ll soon see why. Character or personality of any human face (this includes manga or comics) is determined mostly by eyes. If you change slightly the eyes, the impression of that character changes instantly.Before you start to draw a complete manga human figure, it is good if you practice individual parts first. Let’s start from the head and face. Since every character’s individuality is determined by eyes, the best idea would be then to start with manga eyes. Variations on manga eyes are virtually infinite, as many as you can imagine. When you learn the basic “recipe” of how to draw manga eyes – I promise, you’ll learn it in no time - you will be able to create your own variations of manga eyes as you wish. A fictitious manga character whether is it about eyes or the whole body is always a product of our – your - imagination. It means that you can draw freely whatever shape or size you like and need not to be afraid “not to be accurate”. Your creation will always be the perfect one because it is the first and, it is the original.
This is a simple drawing of human eye. I put this picture first, so that you can compare the differences between manga eyes (see below) and simple human eye drawing. You can almost tell from the shape and roundness that it looks like a female eye.
Comparing to the first drawing, this looks more like male’s eye. It radiates out maybe a bit of anger, and that is why the shape is rather angular. When you compare to the above simple human eye drawing you’ll easily notice the simplified features. And, that is what manga eyes are about.
While real human eye’s contour resembles to a shell-like shape, especially the eyes of child and female this one has rather sharper angular contours, so it should fit well to a male character.
Here is and example of how to draw eyes in easy step-by-step sequence. Take whatever paper you have – yes, the back of envelope will serve the purpose perfectly. Take a pen or pencil and do this exercise first. Do it now if possible. Please don’t do too much preparation, like selecting the right pencil, the right paper/notebook, the right light, the right daytime, the right mood…or the right whatever, because it is almost never right. We are often stacked in too much unnecessary reparation that literally keeps us idle. OK, I think it’s time for action!
You can also practice how to draw it step by step by these handy examples. I think no additional comment is necessary, the pictures tell you all. The system is exactly the same as I described above (1 to 7).
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