Posts Tagged ‘Eye’

Anterior Disection of the orbital cavity

Anterior Dissection of orbital cavity

Moving onto the anatomy side, here is an Anterior dissection of the right eye. Unlike the ears where I started with the smallest bones and worked out. I wanted to start with the eye, from the outside and work inwards. After doing my sketch of my left eye, this seemed the next logical step.

Its a bit of a creepy image as well, which is always a good thing. A bit of a bombardment of new labels to learn, and I was going to write some of them down for you. But, when looking them up I have come across two excellent images relating to the muscles of the eye (obliques and rectus) which I am going to draw next. It also going to tie back to my drawing of the cranial nerves. so watch this space.

The drawing itself, is a bit elongated in my opinion. I think this might be slightly down to how I was copying it , with it being rested on my knee. I also tried a new sketch pad which I got from Rymans. Its called “The artist A4 sketchpad 180gsm” . It might be good for ink, as the paper is quite solid, but I had a real hard time blending on this. You can probably see, not even zooming in, that the blending is quite harsh.

Unlike the cheap boldmere sketching pad, in which I turned its downfalls to my advantage, I cant see this pad being used for much more than doodling. Save your money.

Related Posts:

• Posterior View of the Cranial Nerves
• Anterolateral View Of The Inner Ear
• Surface of the Iris

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

Related Posts:

• My Left Eye
• Anterior Disection of the orbital cavity
• Posterior View of the Cranial Nerves

My Left Eye

My Left Eye

Not quite my left eye… I took a photo for reference and ended up with a fair bit of barrel distortion on one side of the photo. I think when drawing this, I over compensated in trying to correct the barrel distortion. The photographer part of mind was in conflict with the drawing part.

I am not a keen fan of drawing eyes. When doing storyboards or concept art, as you can see in some old storyboard drawings here. I find the moment you start drawing eyes, you start defining the character and I’m not arty enough to go down that path.

One tip that has been engraved in my mind, from yonks ago. Is the whites of the eye are never ever pure white. and if you zoom in, you should just be able to see a fine shade over the eye white. This is the third drawing I have done of part of myself, and over at my other blog, I have stitched the three together as a self portrait WIP which you can see here

Related Posts:

• My Left Ear
• The Ossicles
• Anterior Disection of the orbital cavity