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EYE TUTORIAL!

I apologize for my handwriting. It's rather horrid.

Step One: Sketch the eye.

Remember, eyes are not shaped like footballs. Need help? Look in a mirror!

Step Two: Sketch in the Iris, and fill in the base color of the eye.

Although the white of your eye is, after all, white, you don't paint it that way. Use a light blue, or maybe gray. Or even a lighter color of the skin color. Just not white. White is used for the highlights.

Step Three: Fill in the Iris and Pupil

Choose a base color that is neither your highlight, nor your shadow for the Iris.

Step Four: Play with shades and tints

DO NOT SHADE WITH BLACK! If using blue, mix gray with blue, or use a premade Payne's Gray. And do not tint, or highlight, with white. Not just yet. Use a lighter color.

Step Five: Smooth it out.

Since this tutorial is for Corel Painter, I figure it's ok to explain using Corel tools. Use a large brush and a low opacity, using the base color to smooth it all out.
-For this, I used a brush of 15, and an opacity of 4%-

Step Six: DETAILS!

When I said Realism is for losers, I meant that if it doesn't look exactly like what your reference was... well, who cares? It's art. If you're not going for an exact replica, then just make it look like an eye. After all, style, in my opinion, is more impressive than copies.
(Don't get me wrong, being acurate is always a good thing)

For the different colors in the eyes, do a sort of scribble in the shape of the iris. You can use both shades and tints of your main color. You may want to put the tints in the highlight and shades in your shaded area... but that's just me.

Add eyelashes, and that piece of skin just before the eyelash. Dude, go look. It's totally there. And a tear duct. That's cool too. And add the white! That's the sheen of the eye. Hey, it's wet, right?

Step 7: FINISH!

Add your finishing touches. Eyelashes get highlights and shades, too! Shade that tear duct, and that piece of skin. Get that upper eyelid in (Unless drawing an African American, or someone with dark skin, don't shade with brown either. I used orange.)

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Play with colors. Shade something with blue instead of black. Use purples and pinks and greens instead of just peach and brown. The world is your playground. So play in it.

Eh. There's my quick tutorial. For Corel Painter.

(Dude, this totally works for traditional media, too.)

Description
EYE TUTORIAL!

I apologize for my handwriting. It's rather horrid.

Step One: Sketch the eye.

Remember, eyes are not shaped like footballs. Need help? Look in a mirror!

Step Two: Sketch in the Iris, and fill in the base color of the eye.

Although the white of your eye is, after all, white, you don't paint it that way. Use a light blue, or maybe gray. Or even a lighter color of the skin color. Just not white. White is used for the highlights.

Step Three: Fill in the Iris and Pupil

Choose a base color that is neither your highlight, nor your shadow for the Iris.

Step Four: Play with shades and tints

DO NOT SHADE WITH BLACK! If using blue, mix gray with blue, or use a premade Payne's Gray. And do not tint, or highlight, with white. Not just yet. Use a lighter color.

Step Five: Smooth it out.

Since this tutorial is for Corel Painter, I figure it's ok to explain using Corel tools. Use a large brush and a low opacity, using the base color to smooth it all out.
-For this, I used a brush of 15, and an opacity of 4%-

Step Six: DETAILS!

When I said Realism is for losers, I meant that if it doesn't look exactly like what your reference was... well, who cares? It's art. If you're not going for an exact replica, then just make it look like an eye. After all, style, in my opinion, is more impressive than copies.
(Don't get me wrong, being acurate is always a good thing)

For the different colors in the eyes, do a sort of scribble in the shape of the iris. You can use both shades and tints of your main color. You may want to put the tints in the highlight and shades in your shaded area... but that's just me.

Add eyelashes, and that piece of skin just before the eyelash. Dude, go look. It's totally there. And a tear duct. That's cool too. And add the white! That's the sheen of the eye. Hey, it's wet, right?

Step 7: FINISH!

Add your finishing touches. Eyelashes get highlights and shades, too! Shade that tear duct, and that piece of skin. Get that upper eyelid in (Unless drawing an African American, or someone with dark skin, don't shade with brown either. I used orange.)

-------

Play with colors. Shade something with blue instead of black. Use purples and pinks and greens instead of just peach and brown. The world is your playground. So play in it.

Eh. There's my quick tutorial. For Corel Painter.

(Dude, this totally works for traditional media, too.)