Surface of the Iris
Close up of the Iris
I get a lot of traffic to this site, with the search phrase “what to draw in my sketchbook”. Doing a bit of reverse searching on this phrase, I am presuming that a fair deal of these enquiries are to do with people submitting sketchbooks for further education/college. Can’t help there, but I like to think that some people are searching under that term for the pure sake of looking to draw something for fun.
I would highly recommend drawing the suffice of the iris BIG! My camera that I used to take the picture of my eye for reference in my previous drawing, is 15mb so I was able to zoom into an amazing amount of image detail on the iris.
I started outwards from the pupil with a 6b and then got lighter with the pencils the further I went out. The surface is unbelievable varied with shapes. I tried quite a few different methods to try and get this, which you can see the top is different technique to the bottom.
All in all, a rather fun drawing excerise
