Drawing tips? Eye leveling?

Question

Hey, I've been practicing drawing for a while now (specifically anime/manga style, but just drawing in general) and I've been having an awful lot of trouble leveling the eyes just right. No matter what I do, a pupil might be a little off, lowered slightly or higher than the other. Is there any tips or tricks I can learn to know how to level eyes correctly? I'm so tired of erasing eyes to the point that I'm smudging the paper and ruining the whole drawing ><

Answer 1

Have you tried guidelines?



You may have seen animators use a crosshairs-style arrangement on their head construction in order to not only maintain the mass of the drawing, but to keep things from squiggling around all over the face when it's being animated. This works just as well with stationary drawings! Draw the head-shape, figure out where you want the eyes (although anatomically they should be pretty much in the middle of the shape), and draw the line following the tilt of the head. This should help keep things aligned.



Additional tips: 1) DRAW LIGHTLY! If you draw lightly you won't have to erase hard and you won't have a bunch of smudges. 2) This one doesn't make much sense, I know, but - if you make a mistake, but you are confident about it and it looks intentional, it can be a definite point in your favor. Things don't have to be perfect if they're close enough. XD

Answer 2

An easy way to do that is by measuring the size of the eyes whether

your face is facing full front or even at an angle. Whatever size one eye is measure the height and draw a line at the top of the eye and at the bottom of the eyes all the way across the face very light so won't have to much erasing to do. If the eyes are facing front then the two lines will be of equal length from right to left. if the face is tilted then the lines will be at the same angle of the face also tilted. If you do this the eyes will always be the same size .Also another trick is to use a coin to draw the outline of the pupils so they will be equal on both the right and left eye. This way the height and width is the same in both eyes.

Answer 3

The most important thing to do is stop thinking in a flat way. Right now your doing what all beginners do and that's drawing outlines. An eye is a sphere with lines running over it, not an almond shape. Start by drawing a light ball and then run lines around it visualizing in your head that it's actually round, not a circle. Start by drawing simple geometric shapes, like a cylinder, cube, pyramid. Once you start feeling more secure with these start combining them to create simple objects. A wine bottle is a series of cylinders, a phone a series of boxes. Always start lightly and build a foundation for your subject, then gradually refine your rough shapes. and only at the very end do you add on details. Best of luck!