Hello boyz and girlz,
This is enzO and Im bringing this quick and easy eye tutorial inspired by
the awesome chucky tutorial by zeroVision of blocktronics.
*** WARNING ******************************************************************
Before you continue, you must know that theres no right way to draw and
that you should develop your own style after analyzing other peoples work
and practing a LOT i really mean it!
INTRO
Im gonna show you in 08 simple steps how I start ALL my original ansis:
by drawing the eyes!
Many of the techniques shown here Ive learned from Fevers ansis. I dont
draw as good as Fever and never will, but I took the time to learn a few
tricks he constantly used to draw his amazing characters you rule, Aaron!.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS TUTORIAL
You will learn how to outline and create a pair of eyes that will enable you
to start a male/female ansi character in the frontal look pose.
WHAT YOU WILL NOT LEARN IN THIS TUTORIAL
You will not learn how to shade.
You will not learn how to draw anything, except for the eyes.
STEP 01
Like I said before, I always start my original ansis drawing the eyes and
after that, I expand it to the point I need.
You can start filling a good part of the canvas with solid blocks so you are
able to trace the lines of your ansis.
Draw a very simple diagonal line to start.
STEP 02
After that, you draw another line starting from the same origin point, but
this time, you will give a more round effect to it and add a smooth fading
at the end of it...pretty easy, right?
STEP 03
Now its time to give it some proper shape, adding a vertical line to close
the eye format, then adding another diagional line, but smaller this time,
and finally connecting all the lines.
STEP 04
Thats great, but it doesnt look like an eye yet! So, clean the inside area
of it until you get this empty shape. Easy step, eh?
STEP 05
Ok, its time to add a bit of detail to it... Add a curve to represent the
eyebrow and few blocks at the origin point corner.
STEP 06
At this step, we spice it up replacing some blocks with F2 hint: F2 looks
great everywhere, just ask avg!.
For the eyeball, you can make something very minimalistic to take advantage
of the negative space weve created. Dont worry about having the eyeball
glued to the face, because when you color it, it will look just perfect
due to the color contrast.
STEP 07
Now, the HARDEST step of this tutorial!
Move the eye to the right side of the canvas, copy it, rotate it horizonta
ly and paste it on the left side of the canvas until you have a nice pair
of eyes just like these.
STEP 08
Now, in this final step, which i consider the most important:
We add unique details to each one of the eyes to break the mirror effect
created by the cut paste action of the previous step.
You can even add a simple nose line that will give a better aspect to it.
As you may know, the symmetry must be avoided in ansi most of the time,
because the viewer will just think something with both sides drawn exactly
the same is really boring and lacks creativity.
WHERE TO GO FROM HERE
From this point you can start outlining the whole face, head and everything
you can come up with, but thats not the objective of this tutorial maybe
the next one?
Always remember that drawing originals takes twice the time or even more
and you may have to test a million of different things before reaching the
final result.
My final hint is that if you get stuck in some specific area of your ansi,
dont waste more time on it, just move to another part that you are more
inspired to work and keep drawing...you can always come back later to
finish the previous part. This way you save time and draw faster!
July 19th, 2008
tutorial created by enzO
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