6 Most Common Eye Drawing Mistakes (and how to avoid them!) - Part 1

Are your eye drawings not looking as realistic or believable as you would like? (And you don’t know why?) Then you’re in the right place!
In this 3-part video series, you’ll discover the 6 most common mistakes that decrease the realism of an eye drawing. Most importantly, you’ll learn how to fix or avoid them! In this first part, we'll cover ...
Common Eye Drawing Mistake #1: If you have ever thought, "all my eye drawings look the same," then you're probably making this mistake. Don't worry: we'll fix it!
Common Eye Drawing Mistake #2: This one has to do with the planes of the eyelids. If you're thinking, "Yes, I have trouble locating the planes of the eyelids!" or "..... what 'planes' of the eyelids?" then this video is definitely for you!
There is also a third, bonus mistake in this video. Can you find it? ;)
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✏️Part 2 of this series: • 6 Most Common Eye Draw...
✏️Part 3 of this series: • 6 Most Common Eye Draw...
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About Marina and The Drawing Source:
Hi there! I'm a professional visual artist, arts educator, former Tenure-Track professor of visual arts, and Founder of TheDrawingSource.com
I love distilling complex drawing concepts into steps that are easy to understand and apply, and consider myself successful when you increase both your skills and your enjoyment of the drawing process!
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Key Moments
0:00 - Intro
0:44 - Mistake 1
3:10 - Solution to Mistake 1
8:08 - Mistake 2
9:43 - Solution to Mistake 2
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[@TheDrawingSource]

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[@tyroneperry5008]

Thanks

[@waltergiz]

Fascinating! Very inspiring, informative, and eye opening. Thank you!

[@TheDrawingSource]

Thank you, Walter, so glad to hear that!

[@albertamusicacademyinc.6646]

The video is great and right to the point! Looking forward to follow-up videos and to joining your course.

[@TheDrawingSource]

Thank you so much!

[@tyroneperry5008]

Thanks. But how can you identify the shapes and proportions of the eye sockets to help place it right on the head?

[@TheDrawingSource]

Hi Tyrone, great question. It takes 1) studying the shape of the eye socket and how it appears to change as the head turns, and 2) learning to see the 4 subtle landmarks of the eye socket visible on the surface of the face. It's too much to cover here, (especially in a text-based reply - images are much more effective), but I teach all of this in the anatomy module of my Eye Drawing Intensive.