Portrait Sketchbooking: Explore the Human Face
Drawing Eyes
A course by Gabriela Niko , Artist
Discover the fundamentals of portraiture by learning to draw facial features and tracking your progress in a sketchbook
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About the video: Drawing Eyes
Overview
“In this lesson, I will tell you about the construction of the eyes and how I draw them. Also I'll tell you about common mistakes in eye drawing.”
In this video lesson Gabriela Niko addresses the topic: Drawing Eyes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Portrait Sketchbooking: Explore the Human Face. Discover the fundamentals of portraiture by learning to draw facial features and tracking your progress in a sketchbook.
Partial transcription of the video
“Drawing Eyes In this lesson, I'll show you how to draw eyes from three different angles. The first one is a frontal view... an eye from profile... and eyes looking up. First, I will draw a simple shape, the outlines. Here is the simple shape of an eye. Notice that the shape of an eye isn't symmetrical. I like to simplify the shape of the eye. Here, I see a bigger oval shape, and a smaller one at the corner like a triangle. Remember that an eye isn't something you see on the outside, but it's an eyeball in an eye socket covered with eyelids. The eyeball will be somewhere here. This oval shap...”
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Course summary for: Portrait Sketchbooking: Explore the Human Face
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching
A course by Gabriela Niko
Gabriela Niko is a freelance artist based in Poland. Having grown up in a family of artists, her passion for drawing came at a very early age. She went on to study design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poland, and started her professional career in sports apparel design. After almost a decade of working in the clothing design industry, she decided to leave her position as a designer and pursue drawing full time in 2020.
Gabriela uses her social media platforms to share her work and has quickly gained recognition by amassing over 350K followers on Instagram. She is currently a brand ambassador for Paper Concept, a Polish art store, and has completed a number of commissioned works, including book illustrations, tattoos, and logo designs.
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