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Published: 2009-09-22 03:15:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 886; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 0
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This is my third project, where I had to draw an eye. I quite enjoy it (except for the friggin' man eyebrows I gave it!
issed), though it took me a LOT of time. No idea how many times I erased the drawing, and penciled over again, only to do the-exact same thing again, and again, and again...Time: 3 hrs?
Material: Woodless Pencils (/Graphite) HB 2B 4B
Stonehenge Paper
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Wow, beautiful, it looks so real it's scary! The shading is great and love the eyelashes!
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Thanks a bunch! 
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Oh and the 'mannish' eye looks like that because of the denser eyebrows. I forgot to mention that
P.S.: left side-lower eyebrow: The hairs go like this: /////, but also like this: \\\\\ . Take that into account
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A little advice?
For the eyebrows: try to get more lines into a single hair. That's for a larger drawing. Hairs are bigger with the drawing as well, you don't draw them by the same width.
Then you could add some transversal lines to the pupil. I see you know hot to draw hair, so it's just like drawing hair, except that you do it straight and with a HB or a mechanical B/2B. Seeing as the paper is kinda rough, I can also recommend trying a 6B-7B, but with a smooth touch. You can check out my Catherine Zeta-Jones drawing to see the detailed eyes.
I hope my advice will prove useful to you
Cheers and congrats
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K. Thank you SO much for your advice! 
As well, yes, I know I have 'man' brows because there's just so many lines but, I'm a perfectionist and I need to sharpen an eraser so I don't have to erase the whole eyebrow whenever I get anal and end up drawing too many lines. 
I hope your advice proves useful to me as well, and thanks SO much for giving an example in one of your drawings. I REALLY see how the differently angled hairs take effect in that drawing.
Once again, thank you so much for taking the time to offer some suggestions. Congrats to you too!
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Nice feedback
superior side: /////\\\\\\\\
inferior side: \\\\\\\\\\\||
The left side is sharper and thus the angle is more steep, whilst in the right side you draw them almost vertical, because brow hairs don't flow over there
On using higher B: it's better for hairs because you get that nice contrast and you can draw hairs easier, simply because it's usually a thicker mine. Yes, you can use a mechanical pencil so that you render the hairs the same width (for instance, I use a 0.7 2B and for the very thick ones, I use a 9B graphite pencil).
The problem is that you CANNOT erase them more easily, as they WILL definitely leave grey marks on the paper.
However, an artist shouldn't erase and I'm convinced that your teacher already told you that. Also, an artist doesn't smudge, he just shades with lines and lines and lines... and so on
And about patience...well I'm sorry to say you didn't have enough
The way I do it is I try to make a sketch with a HB (or even an F if I have one at the time), because you can erase them VERY EASILY and they don't leave any marks. Then I go for the 2B 0.7 for the details and only afterwards do I use the higher Bs for depth.
Applied to the eyebrows: I draw the \\\\\\... lines first with the HB one. The center will be blank, of course. Then I draw it again, only this time I add some more from the center, on a lower angle (more horizontal). Then I grab my 6B and start adding shades and shades... Final touches go with a very sharp higher B.
If I may, I would recommend drawing a fuller face, so you don't have to draw every single hair (as a close-up requires). But it also depends on your style. I wouldn't stand a chance in art school, because I do photo-realistic drawing and no sketching whatsoever. So...make up your mind and create your style to your suiting
Cheers^^
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Thank you so much!
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nice detail capture, i like how you noticed the lids have a bit of a light reflection before the shading goes into the eyeball ^_^
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Well, not too sure what you're talking about (- that's a regular thing for me: being slow 
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I like this drawing ,eye brows are challenging.I recommend investing in a kneaded eraser and pencil style polymer eraser for highlighting techniques.Well done it's very nice
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Well I already own wayyy too many kneaded erasers, but I've never heard of the 'pencil style polymer eraser' before so, I should likely try to find that the next time I go to an arts' store (and buy an electric eraser as well
And yes, eyebrows are a stinkin' bugger! 
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ok heres two erasers to try ,Faber Castell perfection 7056...and my fav is papermate tuff stuff eraser stick....its like a thick clutch pencil with cylinder stick of white polymer eraser inside.I take a razor or sharp knife and slice it to a chisel head or a point,you can then run it through the hair to get a highlighted effect but at random don't over do.The problem with eyebrows is you imagine them one way but when you look at a real one the hairs run from different angles and different lengths.I,ve uploaded one that I did as practice,its in my scraps please remember it was practice for brow and not serious.Oh yeah the 7056 is a pink eraser pencil that you can use a sharpener on.
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Very nice, and lovely, smooth blending as usual. I especially like the eyelashes - they do look real
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Thank you very much!
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Awesome work! The whole thing looks so realistic, with the shading, the eyebrows look so detailed... wow!
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Thanks. Don't know 'how' many times I had to erase and redraw over that insufferable eye! >_< And, to me (and my art teacher), the eyebrow looks too 'mannish', and it wasn't supposed to be a 'man' eye, so... yeah.
But thank you very much!
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Beautiful!
Do you have any problems with the pencils smudging when you don't want them to?
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I try to work right-to-left as 'much' as I can (being left-handed), but if it were a larger drawing, then yes, I do. It's terribly FRUSTRATING!
That's why we (artists) just have to work harder at NOT trying to make our hands smudge our work (and thus destroying it effectively
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