Drawing an Eye with Prismacolor Pencils

well again thank you for joining me today speed drawing is simple study of Mellor using prismacolor pencils in my stress ball turned gray sketchbook only not the ways Prisma colors work in your sketchbook the more opaque colors the prisoners work really well against the mid-tone paper and the surface of the paper just really allows the pencil to blend together really easily without any thinners or blending pencils or any other tools like to start any eye with the black of the pupil this is always the darkest part of the eye so start with my black pencil in this area first and once I've got this down it makes it lot easier to judge my values across the whole rest of the piece started off the coloring on this piece with the iris you can see in this video how many times changed my mind on which color want to use usually on any full sized piece was use my color charts and carefully choose my colors in advance but because this was just study left myself to the freedom to make some mistakes and just blended in any incorrect colors into the next layer which worked out really well especially for that iris and sort of the more complicated colors in there after was pretty happy with the coloring of the iris moved on to white of the eye and you can see of anything even close to white for this area the brightest color chose for the white of the eye was cool grey 30% and into that blended all kinds of pinks and browns to get the final color sometimes when you're drawing an eye you will see areas of bright white highlights reflecting off the wetness of the surface of the eye but in this case took the reference photo in my lounge room and there wasn't any really bright strong light source to provide that sort of highlight so the only truly bright highlight you can see on this eye is on the very front of the curve of the eye and just little tiny line of white just along that tear line now you might notice that made big mistake with the tear duct accidentally drawing it way too long and didn't realize that mistake until drawn in the bottom side of the eyelid and could see just how far off was unfortunately was over loosed off lot of the pencil that I'd already put down and disguise that booboo with some dark shadows from the eyelid throw my eyelashes first in less blendable polychromos pencil have spent enough time drawing out the eyelashes first and didn't want to lose them and have to figure out the placement all again the polychromos pencil did smudge little into the lighter skin tones as placed them over the top and if was going to do this again on full size portrait piece would draw those eyelashes in very last prevent that kind of smudging but for the sake of the study we'll just pretend have some smudged eyeliner on get the skin tones on this to minimum I'm not really wanting to go into that much detail so get my skin tone to basic four colors CPS of Shadows icns for the mid-tone and seashell pink was used for the highlighted areas and little tiny touch of the clover Spencer was used to add very subtle hints of pinky purple tones under the eye being very careful with this one because didn't want to add very tired bags under the eyes kind of look when it came time to do the eyebrows treated them in much the same way as did the eyelashes however this time that smudging kind of worked in my favor having darker base to the eyebrow without me having to draw it in many individual tears now probably should have plucked those brows before using them for reference and including me on the internet but wasn't thinking that far ahead so when have established nice skin tone for the brows used black pencil and placed in those wayward hairs over the top so here's the end result this is quick little study it took me about an hour and half from start to finish and I'm pretty happy with the result think I've come long way since drew this eye two years ago when first started using color pencil but of course can still see room for improvement it will be fun to see what can do in another two years hope you've enjoyed this please leave like or comment and let me know what you think next week I'll be showing you some of the things that I've learned to avoid during this learning process so if you'd like to see that or if you'd like to see more of my work why not get to subscriber thanks for watching guys