How to Draw Eyes on a Cartoon Character

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Hi, I'm Danny Page and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village. In this series I'm going to teach you how to draw basic cartoon characters. Alright, so at this stage of the game we have our rough outline. So the first thing that I like to do when finally going at the character with you know the permanent pen and a lot of you know animators and cartoonists will choose a different starting point, but me personally, I like to start with the eyes. So what we're going to do now is flip back to our experimental page and basically we're just going to start you know throwing down ideas. Your most basic one is the two big holes, the pupils in the middle. It's like the safest choice. Sometimes you can make them a little bit smaller, wider apart, this is just you know, throw down a bunch of different looks and see what sticks. Like some people like to make them a little bit more triangular. Kind of gives a little bit of sad quality to them. Then one other cool thing you going to want to do is when you draw the eyes, particularly when you're paying attention and going over the pupils, you're going to want to leave a little bit of space of white in there because it gives them that life like glint that most people actually have in their eyes. If you look at it closely, just about every single cartoon ever done you can always see a little glint that the animators leave in their eyes. Suppose to be a reflection from whatever the light source in the room is. That's very important to do. So always when you're drawing the eyes leave a little bit of white there. Just give them that little bit of glint. It helps them come alive and leap off the page. So now that we have just some random ideas and thoughts down on paper what we might like to do, we're going to go back to our main page, we're going to start off with the eyes and for the purpose of this video I'm going to make them big, big clear eyes so that you can really see what it is I'm doing here. I'm going to make him looking right at you. And just kind of get in there and get the eyes looking exactly the way you want to. Another important thing about eyes, and one thing that people don't think about, most of the time when they're drawing cartoons, is the eyebrows are a lot of what makes up the personality of the final character. So in this case, we?re going to go for straight happy eyes. This case I?m going to also, the eyebrows, I'm going to give them a touch of relaxed expression and that will be the foundation for our character.

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