We're not going to take a look at the guidelines for drawing manga eyes and as guidelines they serve
as a basic rule set that allows us to create an innumerable amount of manga style eyes from these basic
rules.
This is one of the most important modules in the entire course and one of the most important lessons
in the entire course.
So please do take notes here and let's get right into it.
So the first thing we want to draw when you're drawing manga eyes and we've marked the location on the
head is we wanted to draw the upper lead line and the upper lid line make curved to varying degrees.
But it's important to note that it's typically darker than the rest of the lines of the eye.
And it's typically pretty thick.
So I'm going to just draw this in.
And also drawing it in with multiple lines actually helps create the impression if you're going for
this type of look of eyelashes.
Speaking of the eyelashes they're typically more horizontal and vertical with manga style eyes.
So here I'm just drawing them in kind of horizontally not too vertical coming out and probably not too
many of them by vertical I mean we don't want to do this type of thing.
So to say you can't.
But typically they're more horizontal than they are vertical.
And once the upper lid line is in we then add in the corner line and this is the outer corner line.
And this does not typically connect around the whole form.
We never typically draw manga eyes with lines that kind of box the eye in.
There is a lot of in plot detail as you'll see as we move forward.
So in this instance McReady a nice little dynamic shape.
And it goes from thick to thin thick of the tops and at the bottom and keep it nice and loose and rough.
And we're going to draw in that corner.
On the note of long eyelashes again do you know that they are under emphasized when you're drawing in
male characters whether you're drawing round style large manga anime style as well during the show to
top whenever it's a male character.
Typically you want to under emphasize the eyelashes.
Unless there's some particular reason you want to have them in the.
So we've drawn at the top of the line we up our line and we've drawn at the corner line.
Next up we're going to draw in the eyelid crease.
Not typically the crease is a short little line that appears on the inside area of the eye.
And normally in real life we draw the eyelid crease something like that.
And of course they armigers styles.
You do have the added crease free Dronett But by far the most common is to have a short little eyelid
crease like this at a angle on the inside area of the eye.
Next we can move to drawing in the iris shape.
Now the Irish shape in manget can be very long and of Yula very big and circular smaller and circular.
It can take on a bulbous shape as well.
You have a numerable amount of options here.
Defectively You teams to once to draw a nice round in curved Irish shape.
So in this instance I'm just going to put in an R shape.
Say something like this.
It's been a little bit bigger.
And depending on the stone you're going for you can either have the top section cut off a little bit
or you can have the full roundness of the iris appearing underneath the ballad line.
In this instance let's leave a top section cut off a little bit once the iris is done.
It's not a bad idea to often thicken the lines of origin that come from the eyelid line.
So you'll see here can just add in some thickness here.
Just so that from a distance it's very clear that there's almost an alluding to a shadow over the top
of the hour.
And of course the wrist which is the upper lip shadow will get to actually rendering you that in just
now.
Now regarding the lower Hallard line typically it's left out or if it is drawn it's drawn in as just
a short line.
In this instance let's draw it in like this.
That's not to say that you can't expand on the style but typically speaking it's generally a short line
or it's left out.
It's not even drawn in.
And while we're talking about the lower on that line we might as well talk about the tear duct area
and the lower lids in a section which are also not really drawn in if the invalid is indicated it's
usually by an inner line something like this.
In this instance I'm going to leave it out but you can put that in if he wants to indicate the insulin
and what happens really is that this becomes an implied detail so that the viewers brain kind of gets
the information made up imaginatively.
The differentiation between the skin area and the area.
However when manga is colored the difference between the white and the skin is made clear with a color
but there is no actual line drawn me.
Keep in mind once again these are guidelines for a baseline foundation for drawing many guys and you'll
see in the demos how we can totally expand on this to create tons of great varieties of us.
Continuing on once we've drawn in people sorry once you've joined in the arts we can then draw in the
pupil and in this instance I'm just going to draw a normal sized people here and I'm actually going
to move ahead and do some shading on this people.
Just do some quick crosshatching
and it's also shaded out.
Iris typically we want the iris to be shaded in somewhat light then the people I'm using crosshatching
here and of course you can use actual shading or you can use colorful eyes on computer and the eyes
being shaded is quite important even when you're dealing just with line art with the manga stuff.
You can decide to do this later in the coloring phase but the eyes actually have a whole lot of depth
to them and they're really worked on in excruciating detail to make sure that they read well and they
read it very clearly.
So there really is a lot to Mangga eyes once we've got the shading done.
We then want to put in the shadow of the lid.
Now this doesn't always appear in every style but it is a common trait.
And so what we'll do is simply mark out of location here and then shade this area in and this creates
the impression of an other shadow over the iris.
And over the bowl sometimes in some styles the pupil itself will actually bleed into the shadow area.
So something like that and it will take on the same shading and will be shaded as one single unit.
But in this instance we won't do that but do keep that in mind
next we can put in our Harlettes the hametz can typically appear anywhere they can be partially in the
iris and on the eyeball partially in the arsenal of the pupil just in the pupil itself just in the iris
itself and it can take on pretty much any shape you can have triangular highlights circular square rectangular
et etc..
In this instance let's put a large Iris in eyeball highlight on the outside
and then we'll go ahead and put a smaller one on the inside.
Now expressions do modify this basic God guideline design.
And once again let me reemphasize this is a basic guideline that we are using as a foundation to work
from.
All right.
So you can certainly do this God line as your enemy character you make of Kaka's actual eyes but I'd
strongly encourage you to really take this God on his sock bending the rules a little bit.
Let's not go over a summary of each of the steps once again and I'll mark these regions in Red first
thing that we want to do is to define that line.
And then eyelashes.
Keeping in mind that they're typically horizontal.
Keep in mind that this upper little line can be long and curvy and can be very round it can have this
top of look to it.
You can really mess with the proportions a lot.
With this up of that line we then move on and we draw the corner of the eye.
This may extend shorter longer very long but we do want to corner in.
You may have also seen manga styles that have the upper line and the lower levels and making this type
of shape that's totally fine as long as these two elements are in there.
Once we've drawn that in we then draw in the eyelid crease typically at an angle.
Remember once again that's not to mean that we can't do normal lines.
You certainly can but it's very typical to have a short indication of the eyelid crease.
Next we draw in the iris shape.
This is usually quite large but it can take many types of ovules shapes can be really big it can be
really small can be partially covered depending on the expression we draw in the Irish shape and sometimes
we will cut off the top of the iris and keep it flat.
And other times depending on the style you may keep the entire Iris shape round.
This is quite important to remember pinning on the stuff we then move in and draw in the people people
itself can be very small.
It can be gigantically longe again depending on the look you're going for or your own custom style that
you're building.
Keep in mind that in certain styles the pupil shape is linked to the iris shadow sorry the foliage shadow
so you can link it in there and you'll see in some of the demos that has been done.
And then what we do is we move into doing the shading and we want to make sure that the pupil is dark
is hopefully generally the darkest part of the inside of the eye and the eyelid shadow should be pretty
dark as well.
And then the iris itself should be at least darker than the bowl of the eye or the white of the eye
and then we move on and draw in highlights.
It's the point to note remember that the lower lid line is usually quite short if not and not appearing
at all that is up to you.
Of course you can extend a little bit longer you can bend the rules.
Take a look and see what you're able to achieve with the lower eyelid line and if it matches the look
and feel that you're going for.
And once again expressions do modify the base design which we will be looking at further in the expression
section.
I hope you've taken notes.
This is your baseline foundations and steps for drawing convincing Mangga eyes.
We can elaborate on this basic design by changing the size the spacing.
Of course some of the locations of the elements that's the lesson and I'll see you guys in the next
lesson.