6 Most Common Eye Drawing Mistakes (from a Professional Artist) - Part 3

If your eye drawings aren't looking as realistic or believable as you'd like (and you're not sure why), then you’re in the right place!
This is Part 3 of a 3-part video series, where 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 video, we'll cover ...
Most Common Eye Drawing Mistake #5: Eyelashes and eyebrows are the 'icing on the cake' in an eye drawing ... unless you make this mistake!
Most Common Eye Drawing Mistake #6: If your eye drawings are lacking depth and dimension, you might be making this mistake. Don't worry, we'll fix it!
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Courses Mentioned in this Video:
Ready to transform your eye drawings? Learn more about the Eye Drawing Intensive:
👉🏽 Eye Drawing Intensive Course: shorturl.at/aFMO5
👉🏽 Intro to Smooth Shading in Graphite: shorturl.at/eBeCJ
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Eye Drawing Videos and Playlists:
✏️Part 1 of this series: • 6 Most Common Eye Draw...
✏️Part 2 of this series: • 6 Most Common Eye Draw...
✏️Eye Drawing Playlist: • Learn to Draw Realisti...
Other Recommended Videos:
✏️3 Tips for Shading Light Values: • Realistic Shading Tech...
✏️3 Ways to Use a Kneaded Eraser for Realistic Drawing: • 3 Effective Ways to Us...
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Subscribe for more videos on realistic drawing!
Videos Coming Soon:
🌟How to Transform Your Eye Drawings: A Student Case Study
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Free Drawing Resources:
💡Mini-Course - 6 Stages of a Realistic Drawing: shorturl.at/t2g7K
💡10 Reasons Your Drawing Doesn’t Look Realistic (and how to fix it!): shorturl.at/mszF0
💡Step by Step Eye Drawing Tutorial: shorturl.at/puvx7
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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:
00:00 - Introduction
00:34 - Most common eye drawing mistake #5
00:03:36 - Solution to mistake #5
00:04:20 - A student eye drawing transformation
00:05:46 - Most common eye drawing mistake #6
00:06:18 - An introduction to edges in drawing
00:09:01 - Solution to mistake #6
00:10:38 - Visual Exercise
00:13:42 - How to continue studying edges
00:14:36 - Transforming your eye drawings

[@TheDrawingSource]

✏Part 1 of this series: ruclips.net/video/na3GGhG9pZ8/видео.html
✏Part 2 of this series: ruclips.net/video/na3GGhG9pZ8/видео.html
👁Eye Drawing Intensive Course: shorturl.at/aFMO5

[@peggywillett8367]

Fascinating! Thank you, Marina, for sharing so much with us.

[@TheDrawingSource]

My pleasure! Thank you, Peggy :)

[@LHoffman]

Thank you for this series of videos Marina! These 3 videos have been really helpful in stepping through the process of learning to see and then recreating what I see. The 3rd video in particular clarified for me the difference between using line vs using values to create realistic forms. I'm not specifically interested in drawing portraits per se, but the lessons here are applicable to all drawing I think... Excellent, clear examples and explanations of your processes.

[@TheDrawingSource]

Hi there! Thank you very much for your kind words, I'm so happy to hear that the series has been useful. You're absolutely right, it's mostly the eye-specific anatomy that only relates to drawing eyes. Otherwise, to draw anything, we need to develop the same foundational skills in both drawing and seeing :)

[@SarahOlive-p5b]

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