How to Draw a Human Eye on 5 steps

Edited by Maxwell K, Maluniu, ElizabethD, BR and 7 others

This will teach you how to draw realistic human eyes.

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   Draw one big circular ball to make out the eye. This will form the eye socket. The top of this circle is where the eyebrow is and at the bottom is where the cheek bone sits. Add the lines.
   
   
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   Draw the eyeball floating in the centre of the socket.
   
   
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   You then need to work on the shape of the eye. Eyes are almond shaped, so bear this in mind as you sketch them. As a rule of thumb, the distance between the two eyes is the width of another eye.
   
   
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   Inside the iris, the color inside the center of the eye, draw the pupil which is the darkest bit of the eye. Fill most of it in black and leave a little white. With your pencil flat, use a bit of shading for the base.
   
   
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   Next, draw the top of the eyelid over the top of the almond. Add any detail you like, like eyelashes, etc.,
   
   

Draw famous faces

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History of Drawing: the textbook

History of Drawing is a textbook and reference book available free to anyone who loves drawings.


Use the navigator at the top of the page to jump between chapters.



Thomas Buser earned his doctorate in Art History from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts in 1974. He taught courses in Baroque Art and the course History of Prints and Drawings at the University of Louisville until his retirement in 2005. He has published Religious Art in the Nineteenth Century in Europe and America (two volumes, 2002) and the textbook Experiencing Art Around Us (second edition, 2006).



As far as possible, the drawings have been reproduced throughout the book in the same scale: halfway across the page equals 20 centimeters (about eight inches), all the way across the page equals 40 centimeters (a little less than sixteen inches). Needless to say, drawings that are wider than 40 centimeters are out of scale.

Artists call weekend gathering the 'Drawing Frenzy,' invite parents to bring artistic children.

Parents that have kids with artistic flair might want to eat at the Crossroads Coffee House after 11 a.m. some Saturday or Sunday.  Like every weekend for several years, a local group of professional artists will be there. They call it the "Drawing Frenzy," a come one, come all draw-a-thon.
All artists, from children to adults are welcome.  They can ask questions, or talk about their favorite animated show, comic book or whatever inspires their art.  But there are a couple of rules.  Keep the conversation light … no politics.  Just stop in, pull up a sandwich and a pen, tablet, sculpture -- you get the idea.
One creator of the Drawing Frenzy and illustration mentor is Mike Sullivan, a talented local comic-book artist.
"It’s just a very nurturing environment for creativity and people are drawn to it… and we just feed off that,” Sullivan said.
Another local painter and comic artist that meets regularly at the coffee house is Darryl Woods. He tells young artists to draw something every day but make sure it’s something new: Don’t keep rehashing the same old thing.
Woods said he has seen the Drawing Frenzy bring the shy strokes of a budding artist to full bloom. As he tells the tale, just last week a young, shy visitor to the coffee house came in to share a few sketches.  She introduced herself as the daughter of a face painter.
“She had very low confidence in her ability to draw,” Woods said.  “She is an extraordinary artist.”
The gang at the Drawing Frenzy is certainly about encouragement, and that is the message they pass along to each and every person who has the courage to pull up a chair and share their doodles.
The Drawing Frenzy meets at the Crossroads Coffee House, 310 Southwest Blvd., Kansas City, Mo., 64108.  The artists meet from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday.
The artists include: Mike Sullivan, Ed Lavallee, Joe Hall, Damont Jordan, Beejay Hawn, Greg Gildersleeve, Taylor Castro, Buck Sommerkamp, Rob Nix and Mike Keener.

Political cartoonists invading Salt Lake City

Don’t tell political cartoonist Matt Wuerker that he works in a dying business or that the traditional print form of lampooning is an endangered species.

"There is a shorter and shorter attention span in readership," said the president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. "Nothing addresses that strange problem more than a good political cartoon. The old saw that a picture is worth a thousand words speaks to the unique power of cartoons to communicate complex ideas...It takes less time to get a cartoon than to read 140 characters [on Twitter]."


Wuerker and more than 80 of the nation’s top cartoonists will be in Salt Lake City this week for the association’s annual convention. Those participating include Pulitzer Prize winners such as Wuerker from Politico, Steve Benson from The Arizona Republic and Patrick Oliphant from Universal Uclick Syndicate. The Salt Lake Tribune’s Pat Bagley also will be at the event that includes workshops, a cartoonist "death match" at The Tavernacle Bar and a Cartoons and Cocktails benefit and auction.

Several free workshops open to the public will examine issues such as the use of cartoons to satirize religion, a look at Thomas Nast, who is regarded as the father of modern political cartoons, and how political cartoons often kick-start controversy. (See schedule.)

"We are a strange bunch," said Wuerker. "We represent the full political spectrum with troglodytes on the right and bleeding hearts on the left. But what trumps political differences is respect for each other’s drawing and keeping an ancient and enduring craft alive."

Benson, a Brigham Young University graduate and grandson of former LDS Church President Ezra Taft Benson, said cartoonists look at the world differently.

"Cartoonists tend to see quirky things," he said. "It’s a working combination of being analytical on the current-events side mixed with a deep sense of curiosity about the world in the left side of the brain along with the little kid who never grew up and liked to draw funny pictures in class."

The Arizona Republic cartoonist said his art is about more than drawing. It is about illustrating an opinion on a political, social or current topic.

Though both he and Bagley have retired from the LDS Church, they met at BYU, where they worked as cartoonists for The Daily Universe. Their controversial takes on campus life often caused a stir.

The two published a collection of their Daily Universe cartoons and selected letters to the editor in 1979 in a book called I Am Appalled … (the title, Benson said, refers to the way many BYU students would start their letters to the editor about cartoons that offended them).


For example, Bagley’s first cartoon lampooned BYU’s fight over federal Title IX policies mandating coed housing. He portrayed National Guardsmen bringing in a young woman as a new roommate in previously all-male housing. Benson said students were not angered by the cartoon’s message but the fact that Bagley had placed a poster of bikini-clad Farrah Fawcett on the wall.

"An editorial cartoonist throws the first punch in a bar fight and then sits back and watches everyone fight," said Benson.

Jen Sorensen, a self-syndicated cartoonist whose primary clients are alternative weeklies such as Salt Lake City Weekly, is an example of that. She has found work on Web-oriented sites such as The Daily Kos, NPR.org and Politico. She has also found freelance work in longer-form commissioned comics.


"The print media still forms the foundation for my income, but there are a lot of other little avenues I am pursuing online."

Wuerker said the Internet allows cartoonists to experiment with new forms of the craft, including animation and interactive cartoons.

Benson put how his peers view the new technology in a different way.

"You have those whose job is to educate the cartooning coots, who are still happy with a camel-hair brush and who ask what’s this Photoshop stuff," he said. "The swamp might be being drained, but it’s still there. It’s a smaller pond, but it still has life in it."

Jack McInerney's success drawing national attention

CHESTER, Pa. -- Jack McInerney is leading the MLS in goals, was named the MLS Player of the Week and is pacing the Union to victory.

Now comes the national attention.

“I’ve gotten more text messages and tweets than I’ve ever gotten,” said McInerney, who is coming off a two-goal effort against DC United last Sunday. "It’s been a little bit different, but I won’t say I don’t like it. As long as I’m playing well, I’m happy.”

And so are the Union. At 20-years-old, McInerney is in his fourth year with the club that drafted him fifth overall in the 2010 MLS SuperDraft. And after leading the Union in goals last season with eight in 25 games, McInerney now has six goals in seven games and is the point-man of the Union offense, helping his club to an early 3-2-2 record.

This success, mixed with his flair for the clutch late-game goal, has some calling him the “American Chicharito” or “Jackharito.” But whatever nickname he is handed, McInerney can be called confident.

“I don’t think there’s a ceiling for confidence,” he said, preparing for the New England Revolution on Saturday. “Lately, it’s all been good for me. But I still need to keep my head down and keep playing every week. Next week could be the exact opposite. It gets higher and higher every single day and as long as we’re playing well and winning games, it’s good for the team.”

With his early-season success, the national media has heaped praise on the young star, even demanding McInerney receive attention from the US Men’s National Team. But with attention comes expectation, which has caused coach John Hackworth to try and keep McInerney from buckling under the pressure.

“I think Jack is going to handle it fine,” said the coach. “It has a lot to do with the people around him. We spoke briefly about it yesterday -- don’t change anything, don’t change the way you’re thinking. I said, don’t read it if the media writes something good about you and don’t ever read it if they write something bad about you. You have to do your job every day to the best of your ability, and those highs and lows will come as a professional athlete, especially under the spotlight.”

Though McInerney showed flashes of his current brilliance in 2012, consistency was a lingering issue. Helping solve this problem has been veteran striker Conor Casey, who is second on the Union with two goals. Though the Union may have expected Sebastien Le Toux to help McInerney reach new heights, it has been Casey that has clicked with the young striker.

“They are playing very well and there is no sense in disrupting something that is working so effectively,” Hackworth said of the Casey-McInerney combination “Obviously Jack is getting a lot of the credit and it’s well deserved for sure, but Conor is doing a great amount of quality things as a target forward. Our whole team is playing in a way that allows us to be effective.”

And even with the two-forward combination working, McInerney still believes the best is yet to come.

“It’s helped a lot,” said McInerney of playing with Casey. “We’re still working on things, we’re still trying to connect in the midfield a little better but we’re both scoring goals and in pretty good form right now. If we can keep this going, we’ll be pretty good. We’ve been working in practice together, it’s a good partnership.”

Down on the Farm: Drawing the line on prospects

Zack Wheeler is currently the most owned minor-league pitcher in Fantasy, ahead of Dan Straily, Trevor Bauer and Chris Archer, among others.

From a long-term perspective, that's completely understandable. Baseball America rated him the 11th-best prospect entering this year, with Dylan Bundy (who's visiting Dr. James Andrews because of elbow pain), Jose Fernandez (who's already in the big leagues), Shelby Miller (who's already in the big leagues) and Gerrit Cole (who's owned in 34 percent of leagues himself) the only starting pitchers ahead of him.

But at 42 percent, Wheeler's ownership covers more than just the dynasty leagues that would care about his long-term viability. At 42 percent, it extends even into some 10- and 12-team mixed leagues, where the emphasis is squarely on the now.

And the now for him is looking mighty tenuous.

In theory, he had a shot at winning a rotation spot this spring, which means in theory, he should be the first one up if something goes wrong.

But Shaun Marcum's neck already went wrong, and the Mets opted to go with Aaron Laffey instead, which means either they don't want to take the chance of Wheeler earning Super Two status, bringing on arbitration a year sooner, or they don't think he's quite ready.

The former is a plausible enough explanation. So far in his two-plus years on the job, general manager Sandy Alderson has yet to delude himself into thinking his team is on the verge of contention. No one knows better than he does that the Mets, as they're currently projected to perform, risk losing more than they gain by promoting Wheeler prior to July.

Of course, even for non-contenders, when a top prospect has so thoroughly mastered the minor leagues that the only possible next step is a big-league promotion, then what may or may not happen to his salary two or three years down the road becomes an afterthought.

Which brings me to that other reason why Wheeler isn't already in the majors. If the Mets didn't think he was ready coming out of spring training, then what he's done so far in 2013 surely hasn't changed their minds.

After looking like a finished product in his six starts at Triple-A Buffalo late last year, Wheeler has a 4.91 ERA and 1.75 WHIP in four starts at the team's new Triple-A affiliate, Las Vegas of the Pacific Coast League.

Now, the PCL is a hitter-friendly league -- so hitter-friendly that you could argue the rocky start is somewhat predictable -- but you can't blame it for Wheeler's sudden loss of command. His six walks over 4 1/3 innings last time out had manager Terry Collins quickly changing course after campaigning for Wheeler's promotion just days earlier.

And then came this line from a Mets official, as reported by the New York Post.

"If Zack Wheeler wants to be here, start throwing strikes. I don't want to hear about anything else. Throw strikes."

Seeing as I recommended rostering Jose Fernandez as soon as he came up and Tony Cingrani about a week before he came up, I'm not opposed to gambling on talent for talent's sake, particularly in shallower leagues, where only the most talented move the needle.

But where do you draw the line? Why not go ahead and stash Christian Yelich? Not like anyone's standing in his way in Miami. Or why not Tyler Skaggs? His path to the majors is just as clear as Wheeler's.

You know whose path is clearer? Straily, who already has an 11-strikeout game in the majors this year and is just a Brett Anderson or Bartolo Colon injury away. You know who else? Archer, who might be up with the next Roberto Hernandez meltdown.

Not to mention all the legit major-leaguers who are ripe for the taking on waivers right now, such as Jose Quintana, Patrick Corbin and Travis Wood. Or heck, even Drew Smyly, who hasn't quite overtaken Rick Porcello in Detroit. Any of them are worthier than Wheeler in short-term formats.

Maybe I'm wrong about Wheeler needing to win the Mets over again. Maybe his next great start earns him a promotion, and this column ends up being the only reason someone else beats you to him on the waiver wire.

Based on what his struggles say about the ground he still needs to cover, it wouldn't be the end of the world in a standard 12-team league, particularly if you can fall back on one of those other pitchers I mentioned.