Drawing project 1: Eyes
Drawing is all about looking, learning and putting it down your own way.
This series of fun projects will help you to train your looking, thinking and drawing skills. Let’s get drawing!
Lots of artists use mirrors to help with drawing facial expressions or postures. Try it yourself!
You’ll need: a mirror, pencil or pen, and paper.
For this project we’ll be drawing eyes. This is a good skill to practice as a good pair of eyes can really help bring your character drawings or portraits to life!
1 - Look and draw: Get in front of a mirror and look at your eyes.
They have an upper lid, a lower lid and a pupil.
2 - Make different expressions with your face.
What happens to your eyes? Do the eyelids change shape? What about the white around the pupils? Can you see a crease in the upper lid?
3 - Draw them! Try happy, angry, surprised… anything you want.
Now try moving your head around. What happens now? Just draw what you can see.
Tip: Don’t worry about drawing perfect lines or shapes, this is a quick exercise to get you looking and thinking.
More time?
If you have more time, you could look at drawing your eyebrows too, then nose and mouth.
Or how about drawing someone else? Have a go at looking and drawing someone’s eyes from the side!