If you can, try to draw from real life or have a reference photo handy to look at.
The size of the pupil will depend on the lighting, so if you’re drawing someone who’s outside where there’s lots of light, the pupil will be small. If you’re drawing a woman’s eye in low lighting, make the pupil larger. Press lightly so you can easily erase the pencil if you need to make corrections.
Lower eyelashes usually aren’t as full or as long as the upper eyelashes.
There’s no need to shade or fill in the upper eyelid at this point.
The brow bone is directly above the eye socket. The hairs at the fullest part of the eyebrow should be pointing up while the hairs at the middle of the brow should be drawn horizontally. Then, draw the hairs near the outer edge pointing down.
You can also make the highlighted shape a circle or oval.
Don’t sketch over the reflection you blocked off earlier.
Remember not to draw or fill in the area of the iris that you’re going to highlight.
Leave a few bold strokes to make the iris appear defined. It shouldn’t be a uniform smooth texture.
If you’re drawing a very dark iris, you may not need to go back and lighten any part of it.
If you want the eye to have eyeliner on the lower eyelash line, darken that line as well.
Keep adding hairs until you’ve filled in the brow and overlap them so they look natural.
You can also go back and shade or darken the tear duct near the inner corner of the eye.
If you want to highlight the browbone, erase lightly or smudge it with a clean blending stump.
