Eye Coloring Pages

• Realistic eyes: a single large eye, a pair with eyebrows and a page of six eye shapes
• Eye anatomy: a cross-section of the eyeball with cornea, iris, pupil, lens, retina and optic nerve
• Animal eyes: a cat's vertical slit, a goat's horizontal bar, an owl's wide circles and a chameleon's cone
• Anime-style eyes: big glossy eyes in several shapes, with highlights to leave white
• Expressions: happy, sleepy, surprised, angry and worried eyes, shown with brows
• Decorative eyes: an eye whose iris is a mandala and one surrounded by leaves
• Eye color chart: a row of blank irises for brown, hazel, green, gray and blue

1. Start with the iris. Lay down a light base of your main color. Add darker strokes that run from the pupil outward, like the spokes of a wheel.
2. Add a second color. Real irises are rarely one shade. Brown eyes often have amber near the pupil. Blue eyes may have gray or a ring of gold. Hazel eyes mix green, brown and yellow.
3. Fill the pupil with solid black, but leave the small highlight white. That white spot is what makes an eye look wet and alive.
4. Shade the white. The white of the eye isn't pure white. Add a little light gray at the corners and under the upper lid.
5. Draw the lashes in quick curved strokes that start thick at the lid and taper to a point.

Colored pencils are the best tool here, because the fine strokes in the iris and lashes need a sharp point.

• The colored part is the iris. Its muscles make the pupil smaller in bright light and larger in dim light.
• The cornea is the clear dome at the front. The lens sits behind the pupil and focuses light on the retina at the back, and the optic nerve carries the signal to the brain.
• Brown is the most common eye color in the world.
• Animal pupils vary with lifestyle. Small cats that hunt by ambush have vertical slits. Grazing animals such as goats and sheep have horizontal pupils that give a wide view of the horizon.
• An owl's eyes are fixed in their sockets, so it turns its whole head to look around.