Cool Drawings of Eyes With Jade Color

Peggy Osborne is back again with a guest tutorial. In today'south post, she's sharing how to draw cat optics with colored pencil.

This is Peggy's reference photo. It comes from Pixabay, but she cropped it to focus on the eyes.

Image by natura_photos from Pixabay

She's working on Robert Bateman Series 110 pound paper with Prismacolor pencils. As I've mentioned in other tutorials, you tin can successfully complete virtually projects with any expert drawing newspaper and artist quality pencils.

Now, here's Peggy.

How to Draw Cat Optics

I think the eyes are one of the most of import features in a pet portrait. One time I get the eyes correct the rest follows hands. So I'd like to share with you how I draw cat eyes.

While working on the eye, I always expect back and along post-obit my reference photo very carefully.

Stride 1: Start by drawing the calorie-free and nighttime areas.

The first thing I do when drawing eyes is draw the highlight with a sharp white pencil and so it remains white while I fill in the colour. I likewise add white to the whitest areas of the eye to proceed those areas light, as I layer other colors over them.

I lightly draw in the pupil of the eye, beingness conscientious non to elevate the black into the light colors. (You could draw in the educatee later if it is easier.)

The outset colour is Cream drawn with a light affect. I utilize a sharp pencil and draw in tiny circular motions covering the whole eye but the highlights and educatee of form. Then I add a launder of Jade Green to the mid tone areas and the piffling squiggle lines in the eye.

Step two: Ascertain the exterior of the centre.

The next step is adding an outline with Sepia to define the centre. I go dorsum and redefine this outline as I piece of work the eye. I continue to build upward layers with White, Cream, and Jade Green.

Step 3: Darken the areas around the outside of the centre.

Add Marine Green to the darkest shadows under the eyelids and around the outside of the eyes. This helps to requite the eye a spherical shape.

I keep to build upwardly the layers using Sand on my mid tones. And so I wash Sap Green over the whole eye avoiding the highlights, followed past a wash of Celadon Green. For both colors, I keep my touch light.

I want to keep the eye of the centre light so that I keep that three dimensional expect. So I touch up the very lightest areas of the middle using White with medium pressure level. Over this I one time once again do a light wash with Gray Green. These light washes help to continue everything blended together so the middle looks realistic.

Stride iv: Deepen shadows with additional layers of colour.

I deepen shadows with 70% French Grey, then continue adding washes of Celadon Light-green and Jade Green over the whole center except the highlights.

In the mid tone areas I add together Sand with medium pressure.

And then I become back in with black to outline the eye and the pupil over again.

Pace 5: Depict saturated color with more layers, increased pressure, and circular strokes.

Every bit I get closer to finishing the eye, I add a little bit more than pressure but still use tiny circular motions. The eye should take a polish sleeky appearance, so I burnish these areas to fill in the molar of the paper.

I deepen the shadows nether the eyelid a bit more by adding Sepia and Marine Green. I use Marine Green to add more depth around exterior of the eye and the surface area near the pupil.

Once again I use Sand in the mid tone areas. I and then burnish the whole center with Jade Green to blend all the colors together. I use either Jade Dark-green or Sepia to place tiny details on the eye to add to the realistic look.

Eyelash reflections on the eye are added with Sepia, so I burnish the lightest areas of the eye with White.

Finally I add together slate blue to the white highlight in each middle.

Throughout this procedure, I follow the reference photo.

I am going to move onto creating the fur effectually the eyes just will go back to add the final touches and details to the eyes later the fur is completed. Drawing the fur effectually the eyes helps me judge the values in the eye better.

Step 6: Beginning cartoon the fur by blocking in color.

Since this is an eye tutorial I am not going into a lot of detail on the fur. However I will share some of the steps to create the fur, then I will go back and complete the last details in the eyes.

The fur is built upward using layer after layer of colored pencil. I kickoff lay in hair-similar strokes following the direction of the fur with 70% French Grey. I do a wash of Cream over this then add together more hair-similar strokes of xx% French Grey.

That is followed by another wash of Cream, so more than hair-like strokes of 70% French Gray.

These steps build depth to the fur and I keep repeating them until the paper tooth is full and I take the issue I want.

Step vii: Finish cartoon the fur with repeated layering.

Building layers and blending is what gives you realistic looking fur. The expanse between the optics is a petty unlike than the other areas then to create this, I used a 70% Warm Gray with a sharp point and brusk hair-like strokes. Then I added a light wash of Peach Beige and more than short strokes of 70% Warm Grey.

I burnished this with the blending pencil. The white of the paper shows through as the lightest hairs. The rest of the area I finished using the same colors as mentioned before, following the reference photograph closely and building layer after layer, with some burnishing between layers.

I have created a three-dimensional wait to the fur. The very darkest points of the fur was completed with Black and Sepia in layers to fill the tooth of the newspaper.

With my blending pencil I drag the dark color into the light color for a smoothen blending look.

The white of the paper shows through as the lightest hairs.

I used Sepia in the darkest points of the fur every bit a base of operations layer. Here I accept completed the fur on the forehead.

Stride 8: Draw the nose using the same methods equally the residual of the fur.

The nose of a cat has an unusual hair design and as always I follow the direction of the fur growth as shown in the reference photo.

I apply the same method of layering to draw the olfactory organ, but added a bit of Burnt Ochre and Light Umber to the French Greys and Peach Beige.

Footstep nine: Burnish the layers of color to blend them together.

On the completed cartoon, I burnished a lot of the areas to blend the fur throughout the whole picture.

I used Brush & Pencil's Titanium White mixture to create a few more hairs and highlights throughout the drawing.

Then to finish off the eyes, I added Marine Dark-green in the shadows, a touch of Light Umber in the eye along with Sand, and so burnished the whole eye with Celadon Green, except the lightest highlight.

Step 10: Compare the drawing to the reference photo

As usual I did a photo comparing with the reference photograph and final drawing to cheque color, likeness, etc.

I also did a side-by-side comparison in black-and-white to cheque values.

That'southward how Peggy draws cat eyes.

I hope Peggy has helped yous draw cat eyes more realistically.

If you'd like more details on how she draws fur, read How to Depict Black Fur and How to Draw a Long Haired Domestic dog.

If you have questions near this tutorial, get out a comment below. Peggy will stop by and answer your questions.

And if you take a suggestion for a time to come tutorial from Peggy, leave that in the comments as well.

About Peggy Osborne

Peggy is an accomplished self-taught artist living in Canada specializing in creating beautiful realistic portraits of pets and family members. She's had an on going love affair with colored pencils, loving their simplicity, for as long as she can retrieve.

She started out using graphite pencil and so it was an easy transition to carry on with colored pencils. Love of animals and art go mitt in hand. Peggy is in awe of what tin be accomplished with colored pencils.

Carrie L. Lewis

Carrie L. Lewis has been an artist longer than she can recollect. An oil painter from her teens, she began using colored pencils considering they were ideal for highly detailed work, and were easier to transport and use at horse shows. She at present uses colored pencils almost exclusively. From the starting time, horse were a favorite subject field, and she's been an equine portrait artist for most of her career. When she began cartoon with colored pencil (and afterward a movement to Kansas,) she found special beauty in landscapes, and landscapes are now what she draws most often. The rugged Flint Hills region of eastern Kansas is at the top of her listing of cute places to visit and draw.

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Source: https://www.carrie-lewis.com/draw-cat-eyes/

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