The Eyes Tell a Story....

This page was last updated on: April 2, 2010

First the head is divided into four quadrants.  The center front line being the seam line in a profile face.  The eyes are located at the horizontal base line.  Draw in the eye on one side of the face as shown in the second diagram.  The nose and lips have been added to show proportion.  Draw the eyes in with an air soluble pen.  When you have completed one side of the face with the air soluble pen.  Repeat the other side of the face. 

The eye is drawn at an angle to create asymmetry of the eye. It is important that you do not have a  symmetrical eye.  Our eyes are not symmetrical.  Each eye lid crests at a different place. Look in the mirror.  The lower lid does not lie directly beneath the crest of the upper eye lid.   The lines at the side of the face toward the ear are longer and at a gentler angle.  The upper eyelid overlaps the lower eyelid at the ear side of the face, it does not at the inner part of the eye toward the nose.    On women, the outer corner of the eyes usually is raised so that the eyes appear to tilt toward the nose.

In this section of the classroom, we will explore the different attitudes and expressions that you can create by the drawing of the eye.  We will explore the basic eye structure, and the position of the pupils at different angles of the head.  The eyes do tell a story of your doll, especially when you can capture a spirit in the eyes that is reflected by the stance of the doll, or vice versa.

This example shows how the drawing of the eye on the face changes when you change the position of the head.  Though the eye itself is a circle that resembles a target when drawn in single dimension, in reality it is an orb that moves when we change head positions to look at something.  I the diagram, the red line denotes the placement of the eye in the tilted head.  The eye  is still on the center horizontal line, but the the bottom line of th eye changes, as shown in the larger eye diagram.  The position of the upper eye lid, and the the iris changes as well as the position of the pupil and the highlight.  Study pictures in magazines and in pictures that are not posed and see how the eyes change when the movement changes, or the mood changes.

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