Paint an eye sketch Tutorial
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Step 5:
In this step I cleaned up the annoying background, and painted the eyeball. This is quite easy, keep in mind that it is a ball, so you will have to shade accordingly. The farther away you get from the pupil, the darker should it be.
Step 6:
Now comes the most difficult part. The iris. First, start off by filling it with a solid colour. Then pick a small brush and make short strokes from the pupil outwards. Change your colour a few times here, if you look close at a photograph of an iris you can see lots of different shades and small strokes. This step determines how realistic your eye will look. The more and the smaller your lines, the more realistic will it look. Zooming in is a good idea.
Step 7:
You might want to smoothen the iris a bit, the technique is up to you, you can smudge it, or, like I did, overpaint it a little. I also added highlight and darkened the pupil. The pupil got a small highlight too.
Step 8:
What is left is to shade your eye. The shading will add plasticity and can also help to define the emotion which is expressed by the eye. If you go the easy way then pick dodge/burn, the more work-intensive, but better looking way is to add more layers and paint the highlights and shadows.
Step 9:
This is what I have come up with, after some colour tweaking and some more work on the details. I hope this has been a help for you, if you have any questions or suggestions do not hesitate to drop me a mail at daniel@dp-world.net.
Tutorial published with the permission of Daniel the Author of this free photoshop tutorial.