In this lesson we're going to take a look at the difference between real eyes and Mangga eyes.
And there is a substantial difference that is going to change the way you approach drawing and understanding
manga eyes.
So let's get into it.
Real eyes are fundamentally bolt on forms and those forms are the sphere.
And we've been putting our iris and our pupil We have convex and concave shapes for the iris and the
Layne's that goes over the iris.
So imagine it leans over here and then what we do is we wrap the eyelid forms around this ball.
So a real eye is built on forms it's very much like sculpting.
We imagine these forms when we're drawing a real eye and then we can go in and add the anatomy.
And here we've got a three quarter you probably have the duct and stuff on the other side of the bowl
of the eye and we can add in the gnashes and so on lower lashes.
And what have you.
And so we have these 3D forms that the real life is built on but the scary reality or the shocking truth
of Mangga eyes is that they themselves are not built on forms.
Manga is at a three quarter angle would really look something like this and I'm drawing a piece of paper
here to indicate this particular trait of make us make ours very much like stickers.
So let's imagine if you will this was a piece of paper just adding in a paper fold line there to help
us imagine that when Mangga eyes rotate in space they just get Narraway they're not actually three dimensional.
They're stickers on the three dimensional head of manga characters.
And so here I am drawing in this manga.
I mean what happens is things just kind of get squished.
In their horizontal scenes as the eye rotates in space.
So what is the really important thing that we're trying to say here.
We're really trying to say that manga eyes are largely symbolic they are effectively abstract symbolic
abstractions of the real life.
So they have elements like the real eye.
They have the iris they have the pupil the upper lid line sometimes the lower lid line and what heavy
but for all intents and purposes they're very much like stickers.
And when we rotate it in perspective even more.
And I'll just use a photoshop technique to do this.
I keep turning the page more and more forward he just gets more and more horizontally shorter.
So really the idea is that the difference between manga eyes is that and realize that manga eyes are
2-D they're flat and they're very much sticker like where his real eyes are 3D and they're both on forms
the form of the eyeball the Crown Vics and concave shapes of the lanes and the iris and the island forms
which are 3D thick pieces of skin that wrap around the actual eyeball.
So keep this in mind as you move forward drawing them in US recognizing that they are essentially iconographic
they're symbolic abstractions of the real line or another way to think about it is that they are sticker
like they're very flat.
Right.
That's it for this lesson and I'll see you in the next lesson.