How to Draw a Realistic Eye

By request: how to draw a realistic eye with pencil, not paint! This tutorial is perfect for absolute beginners. In fact, when I was an art teacher, the first part is what I showed my beginning students (8th grade or older) on the first day of school. I like to think that this lesson convinced them that maybe they could actually draw an eye, and maybe art was sort of fun. The second part—where I guided them step-by-step through a realistic eye—came a day or two later, and by that time they were