Need help with eye shape

Hey guys I am currently having a LOT of trouble drawing realistic eyes. I have alredy checked some turorials,looked for reference and even used paint to highlight the shape eyes in order to grasp them.

However I am unable to get them right( I have sketeched already more than 100, no joke... any advice?. Here is a sample of the best I've come up while sketching:

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edited 20th Apr '11 8:18:06 PM by FallenLegend

I'm not great at drawing eyes myself, but maybe it would look more realistic if you added the light shadow on the upper half of the eyeball that's created by our eyelids, plus some shading in the corners. Also, I would make the outline of the eye a little bit lighter, as most people won't have an outline that dark and defined without eyeliner or something.

Great advice. But I am trying to have great lineart first before shading. I will try to mke my lines lighter thats for sure :)

edited 20th Apr '11 8:28:37 PM by FallenLegend

Have you just been drawing eyes on their own, without context? I've been doing something similar myself, learning to draw faces/heads.

I found this a few days ago, maybe it will help: pic◊

Your eyes seem alright, they're at least asymmetrical and you've remembered to include the tear ducts.

These are a fine starting point. You're on the right track, all you need is more practice and to spend more time studying the real eye and the face.

I recommend not drawing eyes alone but the entire face.

And draw the face live. Look at a real person sitting before you and draw their portrait, and do this a lot.

edited 26th Apr '11 9:32:23 PM by annebeeche

I think that the eye with the eyebrow next to the jaw outline on the third image you posted is probably the most realistic eye you have. I suggest that you make the outline of the eyeball, then stare at a mirror with your own eye. Keep drawing and drawing and drawing your eye and see what you like best. Go for what you did with the eye that I mentioned. Nobody is born an artist nor a professional, but practice makes perfect and if someone so incompetent that they cannot even draw a circle can go on to make works such as Dexters Laboratory and Samurai Jack among others, then you'll definitely be able to draw realistic eyes if you strive for it.

thanks I will! great advice awesome advice truly inspiring

Get yourself a copy of Burne Hogath's Drawing the Human Head. It is an invaluable source of anatomical and draughtsmanship knowledge. You won't regret it.

Oooh, "draughtsmanship". That is a beautiful word.

Thanks Already got it , very interesting book!

Draw an orb many times. Then draw a disc on the orb, to simulate the iris. Attempt to draw the orb in many "rotations" depending on where the disc is. Then overlay the facial muscles that make up the eye for massing, then fat pockets to round out the eyes, and finally skin and hair.