How To Draw Cute Eyes In Procreate: Quickly And Easily!

1. Intro: Hello, fellow artists, and welcome to this class on drawing cute eyes on Procreates. Now, this is a very short class, and at the end, you will have some very cute eyes to draw on your characters. In this class, we'll start by talking about references, and then we'll start actually drawing. So we'll start with the base sketch and simple shapes. Then we'll go through a more detailed sketch until we have a final drawing. I will give you references for you to study and use for your practices, as well as a template for your assignment. In this template, you will have a character where all you have to do is draw your own version of your ue eyes. So are you ready to start drawing? Then join me and follow me to the next video. 2. Adorable References: Hello, and welcome. Now before we start drawing, and I'll promise we'll be doing that very, very soon. I just want to give you a few references that we'll be using throughout this class, as well as a list of where all of these are from, which books, which artists, and so on. So you can download those if you want to use them for your own practices as if not, you can also look for your own references, search for the artists that you love, books, movies, video games. Anything serves as reference. And mostly this is it for this video just to talk about these references that you can download, and I will see you in the next video where we start all drawings. 3. Let's Start With The Base Sketch: Hello again, and welcome back. This is it. We're going to start to draw this time around. And first of all, I got here my references. As I mentioned before, you can download this to use as examples if you want. And as you can see, we got here some variety. So we have some simpler eyes, for example, this one, this one as well, and this one. And both of these are also quite simple and the garlic one as well. So very simple, not a lot of details there, but then we also got something more complex or with more details such as these ones. These are also a bit different, more anime eyes that sometimes can be very, very detailed, like both of these. So yeah, these are just a few examples. But as you can see, when drawing cute eyes, at least for me, it's all about round shapes. So as you can see, all of these are drawn mostly by using circles, ellipses, and anything in that range of circular or round shapes. So yeah, we have these references. And the first thing I want to do first is explore what kind of cute eyes we would want to draw. So I will try and draw. Based on this that I've seen, I will go in and draw a few shapes. This is going to be mostly it's very simple shapes, no detail. So I'm going to add here a new layer. And then I'm going to grab my pencil brush. What is it, or right here it is. And what I'm going to do is just start with simple sketches, just focus on simple shapes, but explore different designs, let's say, explore different styles. So let's start with the circle. So we have something like this. And we can have the inside of the eye quite big. Another option is to have our eye still circle, but make the inside a bit smaller. Another one I like, I like the idea of having the circle, but it's not complete. So we omit here some areas or we do thicker lines than others like this, so we can try that. I'm going to keep the circle, but very likely I won't apply too much pressure here. And now I will draw the top line and the bottom one, and I will circle. This is usually my favorite way to draw cute eyes very round, but instead of the full circle, just the upper and the area below. So basically the area where our eyelashes are something like that, we can even go over here and add some eyelashes. But let's explore other shapes. Let's see an ellipse. So we got something like this with the inside, right? We can also do this. So something like this with the eye, but only a part of it and add some eyelashes as well, for example, let me see what we have here. We also have this very simple style. So again, the ellipse, but we have here, and then just the eye, very simple. So we wouldn't draw this area. And of course, we could do, for example, this ellipse this way, or even this way, perhaps, let's try half circle. So something that we would see with anime, right. So something like this and like this, this can also work. Let's try something similar again and now apply more pressure to one side, and then our circle for the eye. These are a few examples, and of course, we can try and make a smaller I like this one, something like this, that could also work. Now, I'm not adding any details such as those bits of light in the eye. Now I just want to explore here the shapes and the overall design. We'll take care of details in the next video. But, yeah, I think these are enough. We have quite a lot of different designs here. So for me, these are the main shapes I would use for drawing cute eyes. I think that the round they are the cutest it will be. So these are my shapes. These are my explorations of different styles, basing myself here on the examples I have here to decide. But once again, you can choose other references. But the important thing is to explore. Just to explore different things. It can be more than this. It can be less as well. That's fine. But explore different designs. And then just take your time. And once you're ready, I will see you in the next video. 4. Add Details - Detailed Sketch: Here we are welcome back once again. And now that we explore different designs and different styles of cute eyes, it's time to choose one of them, our favorite, and then work on it a bit more adding more details. So for me, I like something between these two. So I'm going to use this one. And then add the details I want. So I'm going to copy this. So I went for my selection tool over there, use the free hand option, make the selection I want, and now I tap copy and paste. And now I have here the selection I just did and copy it, and now I can just hide this layer and we have this one. I'm going to go to my Transform tool and make it a bit bigger, right. Now I'm going to lower its opacity, create a new layer on top. Pick up here another color. This is mostly preference, and you might prefer doing things other way, but I like to have different colors between my sketches, so it's easier to identify them. So right. I do like this shape, so half a circle shape, something like this, perhaps. Now, I like it to be a bit rounder. Yeah, more like this. And now I want this area to be a bit thicker. So where the eyelashes will be, right? This is still a sketch, by the way, so you don't need to be too detailed or too perfectionist with this part. All right. Now I want to add a few eyelashes. So just two or three quick and small strokes like this. And now the side of the eye going to be very loose with this right now. I don't even need a perfect circle right at this moment. There we go. So as for details, I like to keep things very simple. So the three eyelashes are enough for me. Now for the tiny bits of light inside our eyes where the light reflects. And usually, I would keep things very simple and just do something like this. That will be it. But for this class, I want to perhaps explore this a bit more, just to make things a bit more fun. So let's see here what we have. So we have this example here that has lots of bits of light in there, which is really cute and I like it. Then we have simpler ones like this. I also like this one. We have the bit of light, but also these bits here, these blanks that are caused by the brush itself, by the texture of the brush, that kind of adds more to it. That's fun. What else? I really like this one, and I show you this one because I like the idea of having different shapes. Instead of doing just a dot or something like that, explore the shapes. I think that could be really fun. So let's go in. I'm using an eraser here. But that's mostly by preference. I want to remove instead of adding more stuff. But you can actually just use a brush, pick the color white and draw the shape you want or the kind of light you want. So let's see if I made a star. I think a star will be really cute and maybe a dot or two here and there. So adding lots of cute dots in there, I think it makes it even more cute the whole design. So yeah, I think this could work really well. But let's explore other shapes. For example, we can do a triangle. Triangle works. I don't know if you've seen the movie Nimona. They do actually do that in the movie, and the characters have different shapes on their eyes. That's really fun. Like some have a square, others have a triangle. And I think that's really, really fun. Maybe a los angle, like exploring shapes, going a bit out of the box with this and make things a bit more fun. And this way, you'll also be creating a character that is a bit more unique, right? It has something different on them. They look a bit more magical, even. So yeah, explore that. I like the star. The star is cute. And that's what I'm going to do. But once again, explore different things. I like using the star, but complementing it with a few dots here and there, something like this. I think this looks really good. And when we have them both eyes, I can't wait to see how it will end up. But yes, this is it. This is our second phase. Refining our sketchy bits, adding those details you want to add. Of course, you don't need to add details. I mean, we have this example right here. It's just the eye, a black dot, the upper part of the eye, the lower, and that's it. That also works. So that's why it's important to explore and try different things. But I like this style for now. So for this video, this is it. Take your time with your sketch. You can even try different sketches, different styles, different eyelashes, different bits of light on your eyes. I don't know, whatever you want, you can just explore that. And I will see you in the next video. 5. Finishing Your Drawing: Now, our sketch is done. Now what we want to do is finalize our drawing. And for that, I have here this image, and this will be your assignment. I have this template for you to download, and what I want you to do is download this and then draw the Is on this character. So the drawing you just did, will then move it to the face of this character, refine it and finish our drawing. So this is it, download it and draw the eyes, and once you're done, share it with me, post it, so I can see it and give you any feedback you want. If you want, you can use your own character as well. You can draw your own character. That's totally fine, and it will make things even more unique for you. So you can do that as well. And with that said, first, I'm going to hide this layer, duplicate this one, and I want to scale it down to fit my character. So I'm going to go over here to my transform tool or scaling tool and resize it, bring it here. Let's see. Okay, I like it pretty I think I like it pretty big this size. I think it would look cool. I could go. I could make the eyes smaller like this. But I do like going big. Sometimes bigger round and really big eyes going bigger than everything else in the face can make things even more cute. As we see, generally, I think that both manga and anime, even hibi characters translate that very well. So we always have those really big eyes that make things cut. But sometimes the opposite can also work. That's why it's so important to explore things. But I think I'm going to leave it like this. Now, I'm going to use a bit of a shortcut to make things quicker for us. All right, so now what I'm going to do, I'm going to duplicate this layer. For my second eye, I will go to my transform tool once again and then choose flip horizontal and move this to the other side. Now, I will merge both of these together and I can do that by either tapping the layer that is above and then tap merge down. Or I can just make this pinch move, this pinch gesture in both of these, so they are together. There we go. They merge together just like this. Now I can move things around, see if they are positioned as I want them, and I will lower the opacity. There we go, and create a new layer on top. And now this is the layer where I will draw my final lineart. I will pick black as my line art, and I will grab my favorite the Lin art brush, which is this one, the studio pen. Let me see the size. No, that's way too big, smaller perhaps. So it fits the rest of the drawing. There we go. That's perfect. And now I will start. I will just go over my previous lines and start my line art. All right, perfect. Now I want this area to be a bit thicker, right. That's what we did in our sketch, there we go. Now some eyelashes, one, two. Now I have to be careful here so it doesn't intersect with other lines. So this is something you might want to pay attention to as you draw. Maybe we can keep it to otherwise. There's a lot of lines in here and that will look a bit weird. Let's keep it to two eyelashes here at the top. And now, finally, for the inside part of the eye. Now, if you want to draw a perfect circle, you can just draw your circle and that's it. But if you want a perfect circle, what you can do is make the shape, keep your pencil down on the screen, and then an option will appear to you. So I will show it to you. It there, there we go. See now I have here an ellipse, and we have this option, tap the arrow and then move to a circle. And then you can move it around as you want it, and there we go. Once you're done, just tap here the transform tool, for example, and we have our perfect circle. Now, I will just add the colon inside. There we go. I'm loving it already. And now let's pick here the white. This time, I'm going to use the brush, it's time to add those bits of light, right? Here we go. Now want that here. Another here. Do I want another? Yes, I want another. I want to go a bit overboard with this. And there we go. So now, I would say, and I think this is really important if you're a beginner artist and you're not yet to used to doing this to draw both eyes because it's not easy to draw both eyes the same, and it's something that is good to practice and get it more or less right because truth is you will never draw both eyes exactly the same by hand. That's basically impossible unless you're some kind of genius. But it's good to practice and have that learned, let's say. However, if you really want things to be symmetrical, very symmetrical, or if you just want to quicken things a bit, to process a bit, what we can do is do the same thing we did before. So I'm going to duplicate this one, go to my transform tool, and then flip it horizontally and move it to the other side. We even have these snapping lines here to help us have both eyes at the same level. Now, once again, I'm going to merge them together, and I'm just going to move things a little bit around like this. So it is centered, there we go. And I'm going to hide my sketch below because I don't need it anymore. Now, this is an option. It's a bit of a shortcut. And if you're drawing every day and doing your work or whatever it is, it is something that you will use a lot. But yeah, this is almost finished. Now, what I like to do, and again, this is preference, I don't like to have the inside of the eyes, the part behind the color of the skin. So what I do is I go below it and paint it with white. So I'm adding a layer below my eyes, and with my brush, I'll go in and paint this whole area like this and do the same on the other side. For me, doing this helps the eyes pop up a bit more. So this is how I like to have them and look at my character. She looks so cute. This is it. The whole process of trying some cute eyes. Don't forget to download this template for your assignment. Just have fun. Take your time. If you change your mind, you can change your mind and draw the eyes some other way. But yes, just take your time and I will see you in the next video. 6. Conclusion - Before You Go!: Hello again, fellow artists. So first of all, fantastic work and congratulations on finishing this class on drawing some cute eyes on Procreate. Now, don't forget to download the template and do your assignment. Once you're done, don't forget to post it, so I can see it, give you any feedback you want or answer any questions you might have. Also if you enjoy this class, I would appreciate if you could leave a review so more people like you can find this class, and so I can keep on making more classes for you. Thank you so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed this class. Feel free to watch all my other classes. And remember, keep on drawing.