How to draw manga easily: Manga eyes part 3

Today I am going to share how to add little details to manga eyes. This is in addition to what I shared before in How to draw manga easily: Manga eyes (part 2).

Once again, this topic will also be for beginners.

Notice it starts from number 5; as it is a continuation of my previous posts, the beginning steps are found in How to draw manga easily: Manga eyes (part 2).

Let us run through some of the steps:

5. Add a little “U” in the middle of the iris to depict the pupil. There are variations to this step. We can actually draw a little oval in the middle of the iris and shade instead, however this is just for simplicity’s sake.

6. Shade half the eye as shown. Usually the top half of manga eyes are darker than the bottom half, because of shadow. We can add a little tone by lightly shading the bottom half.

7. Add eye lashes on the side of the eyes as shown, if you are drawing female characters. We can add eye lashes all across the eye lids, but this is just personal preference. In my opinion, adding eye lashes across the eye lids makes the face look too exaggerated and fake, so I will stick with just adding eye lashes at the side of the eyes.

This is an example of adding some details to manga eyes.

As we can see that drawing details to eyes isn't very difficult; and with a little experimentation and practices, we can easily define our own style of drawing a manga comic character.

More about drawing manga will be posted up soon.

This hub is taken and slightly edited from my blog at http://manga-journey.com/, where I blog about my experience and learning on becoming a semi-professional manga artist.