In this project, you are challenged by the adversary of portrait artists –natural looking eyelashes. This lesson offers an understanding into the qualities of correctly drawn eyelashes, and shows you how to set up and draw the outline of an eye and add eyelashes.

Preview lesson H04 - Drawing Eyelashes

Great tutorial! Though here's something quick I'll add to it. With women who wear mascara, the lashes are usually extended and a little more pronounced in their clumps. The direction of the lines remains the same though.

This made a big difference in getting the eye right, thank you

Good lesson.

Brenda,
I find myself remiss in not thanking you for these great lessons. I have done many of the beginner lessons and right now I am working on freaky freddy as I am in dire need of shading and blending help. These lessons have encouraged me to continue where I might give up. I find that I will go my own way but as soon as I run into trouble I look in the lessons for more help. I like the way you guide us with simple steps and fun projects.
P.S. Isn't Olddad the greatest, he never forgets to give feedback on the lessons.
Paulette

beautiful i wish i cud draw like that

This was great, my eyelashes was the best I'v done yet,
thank you Brenda.

Thanky you very muchly for this!

xx

I loved this lesson. Drawing eyelashes is really fun.

I did ok. Not as easy as it seems. But I drew the bottom eye lashes to dark. Oh well more practice.

looks like an important thing to learn in order to achieve great drawing effects.

OK, I looked at a photo of an eye to do this one. I noticed some things. At the bottom where the eyelashes grow out are the darkest and the hair holes (or whatever you call 'em) are very close together, so I started the hairs rather close. I can't post it, as I had to erase and go over and the paper is full of dents. The bottom eyelashes looks great though.

Amazing how much you can learn in one short lesson, really great stuff here

wow I just signed up for this website and I scrolled down to the end of this lesson and saw that you wrote the book "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Drawing People" and I smirked as I got up, walked over to the bookshelf, and grabbed your book off of it! I will probably actually get off of the computer and read some of it but anyway good tutorial lol