Quick! Look in the mirror! I am hoping that you are smiling. If you are, you are seeing the Zygomaticus major, Zygomaticus minor and Risorius muscles working together to retract the corners of the mouth upwards and towards the back of your head. But, smiles are not just limited to the mouth. Your orbicularis oculi muscle has raised your cheeks and compressed your eyes. Face proportions face anatomy head Lets look at a smiling face and compare it with a straight face. Here are a few tips to remember. The forehead is very relaxed during a smile. The two eyelids get closer together and the top lid forms a less curved rainbow shape. The cheeks become pushed up like a mountain growing in height due to the movement of continental plates. In other words, the cheeks are literally pinched between the eye and the mouth, and this pushes the cheeks flesh away from the skull. There is little change to the nose. There are common features to smiles. Notice how straight the top lip becomes and notice the trapezoid shape that forms above it. The corners of the mouth usually extend past the mid point of the eye. The eyebrows of most people remain neutral during a smile. Notice the symmetrical arcs that form which seem to connect the eyebrows to the folds in the cheek. Finally, notice that when people smile, the top row of teeth are often the only teeth, which are visible. Now lets learn how to draw a smiling face. Please note that this is only the first of two videos which I plan to …

Step 1 For this tutorial I chose to draw one of the most trained eyes in drawing, Armin Mersmann’s. I started with an outline of the eye. I have just a basic line drawing at this point. I also marked where some highlights in the eyebrow and eye will be so that I don’t forget about them later. …

http://www.dueysdrawings.com/eye_tutorial.html)

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2. how to draw eyes

how to draw eyesIf you have been practicing my portrait tutorials for drawing perfectly proportioned human heads, you are now ready to delve into the details with drawing features. I’ll start with the eyes, which can be very expressive! The eyes are one of the most important features to get right in a portrait, often times you can identify someone by only looking at their eyes. Just try a celebrity identification game, where they only show you eyes.

http://tinavaziri.com/blog/how-to-draw-eyes/)

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3. How to Draw Eyes

This tutorial is a continuation of How to Draw the Head from Any Angle. I will go over the structure of the eye and detailed information on drawing the brow ridge, eyeball, eyelids, eyelashes, iris, cornea, and pupil.

http://www.stanprokopenko.com/blog/2009/05/draw-eyes/)

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4. PENCIL DRAWING: THE FEMALE EYE

The outline on Canson Grain. Since the outline was very light and will likely be smudged off when I start rendering or shading, I have carefully and lightly retraced the lines with a soft pencil. In this case, a Faber-Castell 0.5 mm 2B mechanical pencil.

http://www.artgraphica.net/free-art-lessons/free-art-tutorials/drawing-eyes-tutorial.htm)

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5. How to draw eyes…Correctly!

When you draw faces or people, there are several things that artists are focused on. But there is a feature of the human figure that attracts attention almost more than anything else. The eyes.

http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Draw-Eyes)

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6. How to Draw Eyes – Tutorial

Everyone has their own way of drawing eyes and when you’re just learning, it can be very helpful to look at as many different techniques as possible. In this article, I talked about general tips for drawing eyes and provided some links to tutorials on the web. Now, here’s my tutorial.

http://www.learntoart.com/index.php/archives/drawing/how-to-draw-eyes-tutorial/)

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