Random Eye Sketches

There will also be a section crammed full of any random sketches that I happen to draw alongside learning to draw, and will hopefully show my progress with things that I actually want to draw. For now though, they're pretty awful so you may want to avert your eyes...

Speaking of eyes, what did I tell you? I draw them all the damn time. Again, apologies for the picture quality. Until I can find my camera they will all be painfully blurry.

Pretty creepy, right?

Look at them.

LOOK AT THEM.

Ahem - sorry. If you want to see why I draw so many eyes, check out the Why I Draw Eyes post!

I have a few more sketches to upload, and believe it or not, they're not actually all eyes!

Other Artists

I will dedicate a category to anyone who is learning to draw, or can already draw, and feels like sharing something that they have created. Together we can create a blog full of doodles, sketches, drawings or outright art that may inspire others (including me!) to carry on drawing when they feel they aren't getting any better.

If you've got something to share, don't be shy, either let me know or post it in a comment!

Why I Draw Eyes

There's a very good explanation to why I only ever seem to draw eyes, as I mentioned in my first post, but if you didn't see it, it is this. When I first decided I wanted to be able to draw - a few years back - I found a website that taught people how to draw anime. The website, which I've managed to find again, is called Manga University.

It teaches people how to draw anime characters, the Japanese language and even how to cook Japanese food! Though the drawing lessons were free when I found it a few years ago, there are now only a select number of free tutorials, so any plans I had of returning to this website have been destroyed. I'm trying to learn how to draw for FREE so that anyone else could do it too.

Anyway, here's the 4 pages worth of eyes that I began and ended my first attempt at drawing with. Let's hope I do better this time!

My favourite is the 2nd eye in 'Trapezoid'.

 

I hate how this guy looks from the side, but that's what tutorial said to do. Honest!

More damn eyes.

I guess I was told to draw half a woman's face... I don't remember why.

It's like they're all looking at each other. CRAZY.

I like the sleepy eye here, but I hate that guy. Could he be more smug?

Bottom left eyes are my favourite here. The rest don't have much detail.

I personally don't see that much difference between them, but they know best!

I like the top-right eyes here. They're some cool eyes.

And here is the last thing I drew before I gave up on trying to learn!

Shame that you kind of want to punch the person in the face.

Starting tomorrow I will be uploading new drawings as I start my long, painful and probably embarrassing journey to learn to draw. Stick around!

Moved home!

Okay, so I said making a blog would force me to keep drawing regularly... and then I disappeared for 8 days. Good job. But here's the thing, I finished university and moved home! If that wasn't enough of an excuse, maybe the mess that is my bedroom will make you sympathise and forgive me.

No? Well, then maybe the first few pictures of me learning to draw will do it! After all, that's why we're all here. The pictures aren't great right now as I'm having to take them with my phone. The pictures will be better when I manage to find my camera in the tornado-aftermath that is my belongings right now.

Any volunteers?

A rough outline...

I've wanted to be able to draw for a while now. Quite a while, in fact. For years I've dabbled with random sketches, or sought out online help. The closest I've ever gotten to following one of these online 'courses' is when I found an site that promised to teach me the art of drawing anime characters. I love anime, which may be where my desire to draw has come from, and so I was excited to learn how to draw these characters.

How did it go? Well, I have about 4 pages full of notes, scribbles and eyes at different angles in a notebook which would answer that question. Not very well. It's not so much that what I'd drawn was bad, but rather that I had a short attention span. These 4 pages were my attempt at the first exercises on the Manga University site (I can't find the site again, so this name is a guesstimate), designed to teach you how to draw eyes. I'd only gotten about halfway through before I was thinking 'when am I going to draw something besides eyes?'. The answer it seemed, was never, as I stopped drawing altogether. Instead of finishing the section on eyes and moving onto the next section on, say, faces or bodies etc, I just stopped. That's probably why, to this day, the only thing I feel I can remotely draw is eyes. If I feel a burst of creativity and a pencil and paper is near, it's an eye I'll draw. Do you know how unnerving it is to have a notepad next to you with eyes staring out all day? Unfortunately, I do.

After recently buying a few comics, and seeing all of the different art styles and delicately crafted settings and characters, my love for drawing has been rekindled, and I have decided it is time for me to put the time and effort into becoming a better drawer. The idea of this blog is to force me to keep going, and will be a place where I show the drawing exercises I have been doing, my progress, include any tips I found useful, and hopefully be able to include anyone else who is interested in learning to draw, or feels like showing something they have already drawn (and rub their talent in my face).

That's probably all I can say for now, so I'll let my drawing do the talking. I hope you follow me as I finally stick to it and learn to draw. And if you feel like it, get involved!