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Back to drawing manga and anime. And today we’re going how to draw probably the most important part of a manga character, the eyes. And, in order to learn how to draw manga eyes, we’re going to have first a vast collection of manga eyes so that you can choose some of the ones you like. You can even try to copy them by your own and adapt them to your manga character.
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Or you could watch some of the following videos showing you how the famous artist Mark Crilley draws manga eyes (you can find some of his work on Amazon). They are really good and could teach you a lot about manga eyes drawing.
Guide showing you how to draw 4 types of manga eyes – part 1
And the second part of the guide
Of course if you want a step by step tutorial you can always check out the one here. We’ll try to post some similar stuff here on Howtodrawguide.com as soon as posible. But since there are so many ways for you to learn how to draw manag eyes, you’ll have to settle with only the ones showed above for now. But stay tuned, more is coming.
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14 Responses for "How to draw manga eyes"
[...] you learned a couple of days ago to draw manga eyes, i thought it will be a good idea to continue those manga drawings lessons. Today, with a couple of [...]
thanxs this will help me with getting the eyes done
this really helped me in my art class! thanks
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sssoooo easy and hey thank you for doing this but reallly i wanna talk to you am shamlan and i nneedddd to talk to you ,, and hey are you a man or a woman ^______________^ he….he
thanks for teaching me how 2 draw manga eyes its really soooooooooo easy and its really helped me in my art and design technologe class
This really helped THX!
once again very uhh.. informative i think is the word for it. you really show it in a way i havn’t seen, im the type of person who has to watch these over and over for it to sink in and to be able to do it right the way i want it, it looks really easy but once my pencil hit the sketch book i found it quite challenging, its really helping me with my work thnx alot mike your a legend dude
[...] for today. If you enjoyed this guide, remember that we also wrote about how to draw manga hair and manga eyes earlier. And stay tuned, cause this how to draw manga faces guide is not the last of the series, [...]
I loved you manga eyes video. It really gave me something to think about and made me think a little bt harder on what eyes I should use for the people I like to draw.
Did you draw those eyes? Are they original? If so, you’re amazingly creative. This helped me think about the way I draw eyes, and I think this will just help me in general for drawing manga.
P.S. Cassie Morris, The videos are not Mike’s unless this post was made by Mark Crilley using a fake name. The videos are by Mark Crilley.
it realllllly healped me on my drawing of eyes!!!!! thanks soooooo much!
As i allready mentioned in the post, these videos are made by Mark Crilley. I wish i could draw that good…
thanks! this will help me loads! (: dead chuffed i will reccomend this to all my friends!
Erica XD
I think you should give steps on how to draw the eyes and not just give examples…
-karen
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