Could you please give us the same type of lesson on the area of the eyes?

sir can you do a video how to draw eyes i use to draw eyes for 1year but still dont know how to draw eyes should i quit

next video on the part that rhymes with fair >:)

Marco - I am taking this class along with several others you have, Love them and you are a great instructor - THANK YOU! Can you do a video about how to do confident lines? Especially on digital devices? I find my lines are not as confident and seem choppy - thoughts?

@@SusanKnause Thanks, Susan! As I continue to produce chapters 4-5 of the class, I will be sure to include snippets about confident lines in there :) Then, after the class, if you have any specific questions, feel free to email me! Could be a good subject for a YT video, actually.

Same

thank you honey ... (actually very happy)

This!!

Not really

Agreed!! Thank you so much for breaking it down into planes and shapes. Makes it much easier to visualize especially with the cylinder

Thanks a lot :)

Thanks a lot, Mark!

That's great to hear, and what I aim for when I make vids! Thank you!

I don't know if this will help or not... BUT I tend to start from the middle and work outward on faces, rather than try to outline and fill. Once you get "proportion" you can measure just about everything from "eye-lengths" (from corner to corner as if the eye is the stereotyped "football" shape)... Yes, you CAN still shape the eyes ANY shape you like. The "football" is a "symbolic ideal" of the eye, only to give values to "eye-length" and "eye-width"... SO the basics... The eyes are 1 eye-length apart, forming the "bridge" of the nose. The nose is about 1.5 eye-lengths from the top of the bridge to the nostril-plane. (there's tolerance between 1.4 and 2.0, tending toward 2 or even more as the face ages) The philstrum is about .5 eye-length (or roughly an eye-width, if we're in famously Greek "golden proportions" of 2:1)... The "no-man's land" below the lower lip is roughly equal to the philstrum, to the "upper crease" of the chin.... and the chin is about an eye-length from the lower lip to its point in females, and about 1.5 eye-lengths in males... Eye-width's CAN be substituted for any of the "half" eye-lengths as you see fit. The trick to this as an "advanced" method is CONSISTENCY within the face you're drawing. If you substitute the eye-width for (say) the philstrum (the space between nose and upper lip/center) then you probably SHOULD do the same below the lower lip... AND special bonus is that through a slight shift in eye-shape and substitution, you CAN fight that infamous "same face syndrome" some artists bitch and whine about... haha Similarly, some faces have about half an eye-length from the outer corners of the eyes to the edge of the face, at the temples... Others have closer to 3/4's of the eye-length. You CAN simply substitute your eye-width (in THAT face), which is part of how artistically "styling" a face can have wildly varying results with a little play. AND the forehead... usually about 1.5 eye-lengths from the brow ridge and upper bridge of the nose to the hairline in males... It's similar in females "technically" but females tend to use "bangs" to cover and obscure this. Apparently, there's a notion of attractiveness for females with less forehead (brain space?) BUT it's easy to let this one get really fiddly before you hit "uncanny valley"... SO I've always gone with 1.5 eye-lengths to "rough it in" and then farted around with hair to "fix it" or refine the look I'm after. Human ears are usually aligned about with the eye-brows and the nostril-plane of the nose, but there's a little variability to "eye-ball" it, and with "other humanoids" all bets are off... Mostly, I just find that if I start by establishing a strong sense of the nose and eyes, the rest of the face ALMOST draws itself, leaving me just the minor detail of pushing the pencil or stylus around. Symmetry can be a bit of a bitch, but the reality is that nobody is quite "perfectly symmetrical" anyway, so RELAX and remember to breathe. I believe in you. You CAN get this whole "face thing". They're fiddly, but that's at least half the charm... and a HUGE chunk of the accomplishment and satisfaction you'll find DOING them. I do hope you find something helpful... At least, I can hope it was mildly entertaining, and you could get a good chuckle between now and the next useful video you happen upon. ;o)

I will, yup!

@@marcobucci thank you Marco! Cant wait :) Have a nice day!