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Post by benzza on Aug 18, 2004 8:11:04 GMT -5
hi i am new to drawing carictures and i was wondring if any of you could help me draw or some tips on how to draw eyes i am really stuck on them
thanks
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Post by itsadam on Aug 18, 2004 10:01:50 GMT -5
Hey, benzza, welcome to the board, I can give you some tips on caricaturing eyes, although im not a master of caricature,
When doing eyes, I tend to try keep the eyes realistic rather than exaggerated, since exaggerating the eyes could cause you to lose a likeness but thats not always the case, the eyes are the most important part of a successful caricature.
The best way to learn how to draw the eyes is to study them, get out some paper a pencil, and use the marvellous internet we have here to get some pictures of eyes, keep drawing and drawing and drawing and soon im sure you will be able to get the eyes down.
You should post some pictures of what you do for criticism here on the board, im sure people will help you out where help is needed.
Good Luck, and keep on drawing,
Adam
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Post by toonMom on Aug 18, 2004 14:23:45 GMT -5
Like Adam said, welcome to the board and post some of your work if you really want some help.
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Post by benzza on Aug 18, 2004 14:30:50 GMT -5
thanks for the help i will post one of my caricatures on when i get my camera back its in repair shop at the moment and i have just done one and it turned out really good in the end but it was a made up one
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Post by corky on Aug 18, 2004 21:25:53 GMT -5
hi, benzza! glad to see you asking questions. we all love to help! i love drawing eyes...i think they are the most fascinating feature of the face. study how to draw real eyes, then work on squashing or stretching the shapes to create some exaggeration. my dad, a commercial illustrator, sat me down with a magazine and a sketchbook and told me to draw all the eyes i saw in the magazine. then i drew all the noses, all the mouths, etc. after all that practice (which took days!) i got way better at drawing individual features! one other tip: remember that eyes are moist...so you should always include a shine. you can do that by making sure that there's a white highlight on the darkest part of the eye (is that called the iris?)
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Post by donpinsent on Sept 15, 2004 7:57:50 GMT -5
the most important thing to remember when drawing eyes, or in fact any feature of the face, is that there's far more than one kind of eye. there are many different shapes a person's eyes can be, so take a close look at what your specific subject's eyes look like. are they higher or lower on one end than on the other? are they rounder or narrower? big or small relative to other features? etc...
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Post by gunnarbiker on Oct 27, 2004 9:37:47 GMT -5
Glad I saw this post! As some of you know, my main weakness is the eyes. I just can't get them down pat. They all look the same and they look wide open. It really gets frustrating sometimes. I have balled up a many piece of paper over the eyes!! LOL
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Post by AboutFaces on Nov 1, 2004 9:37:44 GMT -5
Hi Gunner, In keeping with Don's post, there is no trick to drawing eyes in general. The trick lies in drawing the specific eyes that you are trying to capture. Don mentions that sometimes one eye is higher than the other. Paul Gaunt, a wonderful caricaturist, wrote a long and involved article on dominant eyes: how often one eye is larger than the other and how they are almost never shaped the same. And that's within the same face! So to ask for general tips on drawing eyes is worthwhile, but don't lose sight of how important it is to draw specifically what you're looking at instead of some generic 'everyman' eye. Here are some examples of how Phillip Burke uses dominant eyes to draw out a likeness. webpages.charter.net/jwsalzer/burke/lovitz.htmlwebpages.charter.net/jwsalzer/burke/simon.htmlwebpages.charter.net/jwsalzer/burke/clinton.htmlwebpages.charter.net/jwsalzer/burke/jagger.htmlNow, I'm not saying that this is the way to go. But Phillip sure makes it work, doesn't he?
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