From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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Drawing realistic eyes

Drawing realistic eyes

From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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Drawing realistic eyes

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- Before going much further, I want to take a quick look at the female eye because it's very similar to everything I've already shown you. There's some very slight differences. It's quite common to get that feminine look, to shift the corner of the eye in various ways. And the most extreme being just move the entire eye axis up so that the lower eyelid follows from point to point along this curve. You don't have to go that far, but you can see what happens when we draw her from different angles. The eyes are definitely feminine. We can move it by half that amount and we still get that look, but you can still get a feminine eye even with the eye on a flat line. It's really a matter of longer eyelashes, thinner eyebrows, and on using markers like that. And you can see on the left, we have our typical leading female lady. But again, I want to encourage you to not be beholden to that and you can create really fantastic characters that are identifiably female. But in this case, she's a…

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