Painting an eye (tutorial/exercise)

#220

tks linda for the tutorial, I really would like to know which sise is your canvas, mine I think is very small this is the actual size. I have allways hear the sentence work on a big canvas but I never know how big should it be depending on what I am painting , that is why I want to know.

#221

I am new to digital painting, and this tutorial really helped me alot !!! thnx

#222

Thanks for the great tutorial!

Here is what I ended up with:

I couldn’t figure out the texture or the hair part :frowning: (first time im really painting with my wacom).

naveed

edit: Color variation…

#223

here is another variation I made…

i should probably get back to work:

#224

[B]I’ve done my best…and I also know that it lacks in something…
I’ll be thankful if you would express some comment and/or critic…
The second one is a bit modified…

Maria[/B]

#225

FightingCalliope: I think it looks great. Seems like you have the composition spot on…the only thing I would suggest would be doing a bit more texture work, and not being afraid to use sharper paint brushes…that have more of an edge. It seems like what you have right now is a little too soft, no hard edges. Any ways nice work, keep it up :slight_smile:

#226

What an amazing teach, thank you for sharing this with us.

Gina`

#227

Hello Linda. I just found out about this thread, and felt pushed to put the eye I made around 1 month ago. I just know from you since few months ago through this forum, and love your works. I wonder if when you draw (sketching), you arleady plan the look of the faces or, it just gets the shape itself during the process. They look so real!!..
by the way, the eye I made was very roughly, and without using layers, only cared about brushes work to check out the tutorial, Excelent!!! : ) hope you drop me a comment.

Thanks

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#228

Thank you Linda, I agree with everyone here about your generous tutorial and follow ups, this is exactly what my self-taught arse needed to find… I love this place, just joined today and found this… how lucky for me, I know! Here’s my hour or so attempt, I think I need to get waaaay darker, but I’m really enjoying it.

Bobby

#229

What a fantastic tutorial! :slight_smile:

Here was my try at the eye, it took me a while (5 hours, as I’m not that good with the tablet) but I enjoyed the process, and I don’t think the outcome was that bad. Thanks for the lovely tutorial.

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ilia2u/Pupil.jpg

#230

I forgot to say that I made this eyes with a “traditional” mouse and a touchpad…not with a graphic pad! :smiley: :stuck_out_tongue:

#231

What a wondeful tutorial! I knew it a long time ago but it still impressions me! Thank you Enayla!

#232

I know it’s been ages ago… lol, but i got my tablet and this is like the first thing i tried with it. :slight_smile: I love the tutorial. anyway this is my outcome:

#233

Linda, thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial! :slight_smile: And for other tutorials you did. I admire your art for a long time, finally got here and found out this thread :slight_smile:

I’ve started to draw non-human eyes (elven-to-be) before I’ve found your tutorial. They are still a WIP (since May’05). Before I tried to paint these eyes I wasn’t aware of so many details about eyes, some important parts were missing :wink: I’m still learning and need really work on anatomy and shading, your tutorial helped with eye’s anatomy a lot! The portraits need to be redone anyway.
I tried to finish this elven eyes idea with your tutorial and almost did it - almost, because I focused on eyes so strong, that I messed with the rest of face. But I’m glad with the eyes, so here is a whole set to compare - the top 2 are the mentioned non-human eyes, the rest was done with your tutorial. I used my old tablet which ‘helped’ me to achieve the square iris :confused: (Actually these are 2 base pairs of eyes repainted into 5.) I treat the 2 bottom pairs as finished. I missed some details and I’ve stolen your idea of non-rounded pupils from the skin tones tutorial example drawing. It really fits elven eyes in my head. Link:

#234

Wow, I know this post is really old, but I just went through all the steps. Heres my eye! This is a fantastic tutorial from a fantastic artist!!!

#235

Hehe yeah it is an old thread
Heres mine :
I kinda slacked off on the last couple steps as you can see…
but it was still very edu-mo-cational.
beofre and after colour adjustments to play around. I did a few different skintones with this eye. good practise.
Churs Enayla :slight_smile: word up

#236

Yes I totally agree with everybody - this is great tutorial and very informative, but could u or some1 explain to me how this hair / skin-dots-texture brushes are made or constructed ?

…and here’s my first digital painting ever (only standard PS brushes, and only opacity set to pen pressure - I’m a real newbie :applause: )

#237

maybe a little bit late posting here but…

i just wanna thank you a lot Linda! Impressive and very useful tutorial. :slight_smile: It was also helpful to read how a brush work with other shape dynamics and settings.

But back to Topic…

Now an tryout which i´ve done some months ago, created in ps 7.0 and with optical mouse, thats why i partly must use some other techniques to get this final result here:

greetings

eligh

#238

Awesome tutorial! Thanks a lot.

Cheers
destron.

#239

Many Thanks Linda :thumbsup:

I used to have trouble painting eyes and other things but through trial and error (and wonderful tutorials like this one) I have achived a level of painting that I myself am amazed at.
SEE (pun intended)

Thanks
ED

www.edart.125mb.com