How do you know which part of the eye to color in when doing manga style art?

Question

http://www.artstudiollc.com/manga_tutorials/manga_female_head.html the girls eyes on this tutorial where should you put the actual eye colour?

Answer 1

The 2 people before me are right. The white parts are where the highlights are. Look at youself in the bathroom mirror. You should see a white bubble in your own eyeball that's actually the reflection of the overhead light fixture. Or if you take a picture of youself you might see a white square over your pupil- that's the reflection of the flash. Even some of the exagerations in manga eye-highlighting follow real-life, like how when a character is upset s/he gets big, quivery white blobs in the eyes. In real life, teary eyes provide more reflective possibilities.

The eyes were always hard for me when I started drawing manga too. Just try to remember that they have that basis in real life and also know that there is no formula. Pull out a few of your favorite comics and compare. The highlights in the eyes almost become like a calling card for a certain artist- everyone does them differently. Some artists always do 2 circles and others do one circle and a triangle. Some completely cover the pupil and others only have highlights on the iris.

My point is that while manga drawing guides can be useful, observing life combined with your own personal style are what will take you above and beyond the guides and make you a manga artist in your own right.

Answer 2

I think another respondant already covered it, but I just wanted to add two tidbits:

1. Despite the style of anime departing from photo-realism, even anime artists first study the human form from life; those (like me) who can't feasibly afford life drawing classes can at least reference photographs. You can find your answer from either.

2. If what you're really getting at is not the color of the pupils but where to put highlights, well, that goes back to life study: every scene has at least one light source (or else, all would be black/dark) and objects/contours closest to the light are brighter lit or (in the case of eyes because of their glassy surface), highlighted.

However, anime artists (to effect different emotions) do exaggerate these highlights, so it can boil down to a subjective, artistic decision, but at least your light source is a good guide to start with.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

in step 6 there is 2 circles in the eyes those are the highlights they stay white then there is the black behind that that is the shadow of the eye that is black the bottom of the eye where it is white is where the color should be in step 7 that part is shaded so you would shade the color

Answer 5

See the last frame with the black pupil and the gray around it? The gray is what you would color.

Answer 6

around the puple leaving some room for the white duh much?