hmm i m bored okay for some reason people seem to think i m good at drawing eyes (cold n ugly actually called me an eye guru ) so i thought i d put this thing together i dunne why i m even doing this i learned all i know from carnifex anyway here goes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) the basic eye - most artists do comic rips and most comic artists simply use little white slits for eyes not too hard to draw but looks okay (figure one) quite simply you just draw a couple of white lines and shade em ya hoo now for the fun stuff like 2) the cool looking eye - this concept is hard for a lot of artists to grasp because it involves actually drawing what an eye really looks like take a look at these and you ll get an idea of what i mean (figure 2) these are fairly simple kinda small not much detail (figure 3) probably the best eyes i ve ever drawn becasue they look semi-real like they re actually looking at something (you) and not just staring off into space (figure 4) another simple pair but a good example of how to shade the area around the eye (figure 5) just thought i d throw these in to demonstrate how eyes can show expression 3) how to draw an eye - i m just gonna take you through a step by step explanation of how i doodle eyes pay attention step one - i always start off with a gray box i use white on gray (15 on 7) to fill it in so you can see where the cursor is (does that make sense ) i draw on a gray background (as opposed to black) because i think it s more like drawing on paper (i m -really- not making sense am i ohwell sorry bout that) step two - now i draw in the basic outline i keep it pretty simple at first just the shape of the eye and a hint of eyeliner (geez this sounds like an infomercial) step 3 - draw in the pupil and an eyebrow how big you draw the pupil depends on the expression you want the character to convey don t make em too big though (see fig 3 that s as big as you should ever go) same goes for eyebrows never ever ever ever give your character a unibrow yick step four - color everything in use pink (12) for the skin (most of the time) and white (15) is generally considered the norm for eye color but hey they could be some sort of freak so you never know ) step five - shade everything in this case i use 15 on 7 for the eye and 12 on 6 for the skin you also might wanna use 12 on 7 for some highlights but then again you might not also notive the brown f1 s on the eyebrow added for effect step six - time to add detail in the pupil itself use white to add a little glare effect and pick a color to be the eye color (i m using blue) use your eye color s highlight color (here 9) and throw down some blocks like so i added some blue f1 s for effect also i like to use 15 on 1 (or whatever) on the glare and that s about it you can use variations on this (like you don t HAVE to use blue watch - y see good just experiment a little and you can come out with something that looks keen (like that purple there that looks cool i think i m gonna use that on my next pic ) anyway hey if you wanna use this little eye as a message header on your board or something feel free just add a little mt somewhere now go draw biznatch -- misfit(ice apathy)