Eyes on You - Eyes Sketch Practice

Hey Y'all! 👋

Hello Sketchbook community, hello everyone! I hope your week is off to a promising start. Welcome back to emanate artworx. Today we're looking at something a little different from my normal faces, let's focus on the 👀 eyes this time.

45 minutes
Reference

Inspiration

After taking some time to do IRL things the last few days, it was definitely time to post anew. But the portrait I have in-the-works has really, really frustrated me at times.To stay sane I had to put it on the back burner for a minute. In turn, I felt motivated to make this post so I can continue to contribute and give you a look at what's in my digital sketchbook.

So I watched some videos ((links at the end)) about methods on rendering eyes and then had a go at it myself. I liked how clear and bright the reference model's eyes looked and wanted to see if I could create it in a way that's faster and more straightforward than what I'd been doing in my previous studies.

The bottom line is I want to gain speed and accuracy in my portraits, and the only way to get there is to practice, of course! Even if I only have a few hours a week to create art, I will keep going!

Reflection

As mentioned above, I used a reference for one of these 5, the other 4 came from my own previous experience learning how to draw eyes. I might be a little rusty lol, practice.

It's fun to play with colors and experiment to find a fun palette 🎨! I especially like how the reptilian or alien eye looks, turned out better than I'd envisioned. Somehow it took the least amount of time from start to finish, too.

Process

Now I didn't take step by step pics on these, considering I was making them as quickly as possible and I didn't plan out the individual steps 😅.

26 minutes
1st practice, no reference used