anime eyes, practice

left side is pencil (~ 0.5 hrs), right side is digitally enhanced (cropped + filter + dash of colour).

i was initially just concentrating on the eye, so the other parts might be a bit off -- and i will try to work on the faces having more perspective (the original image, the chin is tilted slightly downwards while the eyes are looking up slightly -- i tend to "straighten" all the features / too much of a habit!).

in future if/when i get more proficient, i think i am going to ink (in ballpoint pen) right over the pencil marks, then erase pencil marks, then scan. these are all on a big drawing board type of paper + taken with camera, so there are the dark/shadowy spots here and there. too lazy to scan...

medium: 3B pencil (i usually use mechanical pencil, but might go old school for a while)