Try doing some structural drawings of the eye to help you understand the anatomy! This is a great way to warm up as well. Start with a circle for the shape of the eyeball and practice building the eyelids off of it in different positions. Having a good foundation in anatomy will help you create that 3D look.

Nice work!

Great work!

Greetings @omegaduck . These are awesome. The only feedback I see here is the shape of the retina on the upper left eye. If you're drawing from a front view, the iris is more of a circle, if it's from a 3/4 view or profile then it's a bit more elliptical due to perspective. When it comes to shading, you may want to look into the different types of edges (soft edge, hard edge etc.) it will give you a chance to establish your shadows and lights. You can check Proko's take of those types of edges, or you can check Watts take on it as well. I hope it helps.

Great stuff. I love how you've sculpted out the first eye. I think in the bottom right eye, you lose a bit of the 3D form with the location of the eyelashes -- they are right on the edge of the eyelid touching the sclera. If you had left a bit of space between the eyelash line and the sclera I think it would have given it a bit more volume.

Well done!!!

These are fantastic!

Hi there. About the first draw/picture: if you are able to see you own mistakes (that something is wrong) then you are in the right path. When you do the preliminary draw, the block in, that is the right time to double check your measurements, always check and compare again and again... When those measurements are right then the draw no matter what, it going to look solid and stable. I would draw again another pair of eyes (front view), and then another, many, in every try will get better, keep trying

These (and your further studies on the other lessons) look great Blake! awesome work

Very good result for your first try.

Perfect!

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Hi @Martin, nice drawings! The shading looks really cool😎 - You might want to try to use the shading to communicate the structure more clearly. At the moment the structure feels a little "dreamy" and unclear. Many important transitions in the structure have been washed away with soft edges. Think of how the eye is built and try to communicate that with your shading. Perhaps you would have to start the drawing by lightly figuring out the structure, which you then shade. Especially look for plane breaks, especially those that switch from one part to another (eyelid to eye socket for example). It might be a fun challange to shade something starting with only hard edges, so that you get a chiseld sculpture typ of look, then soften the transitions that you intentionally want to be soft. Think about what you want to communicate to the viewer. Think about what you want them to see. Can you make them understand all the structure of the eye? (drawing exercise) Or maybe you choose to leave out certain things and accentuate others to tell a story? I hope this helps :)

It looks pretty good from what I can tell structure-wise. I do think spending some more time with the shading can reinforce the structure you already set up, and provide more visual information to the viewer. More particularly, there tends to be a strong contrast between light and dark here, whereas some half-tones in the middle can help transition and add form. For example, the eye white area in light has such a small transition that it almost appears only one value, thus flattening the illusion. Continuing shading here, along with the areas hit by cast shadows around the outside of the eye (nose, brow ridge, eyelid), can help add to the illusion of 3D form.

Yes, eyelashes can be quite tricky, but thinking of them as clumps rather than individual fine lines is closer on the right track. They're also rather thicker at the base of the lid as they taper outwards, and you can further reinforce this by fading them out a touch as done in the demo at 4:42.