eye painting

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Painting yes

How to paint eyes for your rendered images

By Dorothy Mitchell


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Use the elliptical marquee

tool to make a circular selection,

then, fill it with gray, using

the fill tool.

Paint around the edge

with a soft, red brush.

Reduce the size of the brush

and paint in some blood vessels.

Use the elliptical marquee toolagain and fill it with the color

youd like for the iris.

Paint in the texture. (see page 5 Iris Texture.)If you keep the iris selected, it will

help you to avoid painting over the edge.

Add a second, lighter

color in the center.

Use a large, round, black

brush to paint the pupil.Use the burn tool to darken

the edges of the iris and eyeball.

Now use the dodge tool

to lighten the sides.

Elliptical

Marquee

Brush

Fill

Dodge / Burn

Color

PAINTING THE EYE

Brush size

Hard brush

Soft brush

In this tutorial I used Photoshop, but there are

some references at the end of this tutorial, where you

can find the corresponding tools in Photoshop Elements

and Gimp.

Try to do each part of the eye on a new,

transparent layer. That way, each individual part of

the eye can be easily adjusted later.

Click here to create

a new layer.

Brush Opacity and Flow

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For the reflection, paint a white

streak across the eye using a soft

brush.

Then with the eraser tool set to20% flow, erase two vertical, andone horizontal line to give the

appearance of a window reflection.

Select all your eye layers. (Hold the shift key while clicking on the layers.)

Or you can merge them if you no longer want to make any changes tothe eye.

Place the eye layers, (or layer) under therendered image layer.If necessary, adjust the size of the eye by

using the transform tool.

Open your rendered image and erase the the eye

using the eraser tool.

Move / Transform tool

Dont spend time making two eyes,

make one, then duplicate it for the

other side.

To move or scale a layer, first click on the

Move / Transform tool then you will see

a dotted line around the layer.Click on one of the corner or side boxes,

then you will be able to manipulate the

layer. Click the tick at the top when your

done.

Right

clickingon the box

will give

you more

options.

Make sure Show Transform Controls is ticked.

Instead of erasing a

window shape,

you could erase a building

shape using a pre-made brush.

Here Ive used a tree brush

with the eraser tool.

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Change the color of the iris as desired by

adjusting the Hue and Saturation settings.

Make sure you have the iris layer selected first.

Image - Adjustments - Hue / Saturation

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To make cats eyes, enlarge the iris so that it fits most of the eye.

For the pupil, use the elliptical marquee tool,

fill the pupil with black, then use the move / transformtool

to reduce the sides.

Here, I painted a dark brown color for the iris.

Then, on a new layer, set to color dodge, I painted

over the iris, using a white, hard brush.

Setting the layer to color dodge brought

out some vivid colors from the iris layer underneath.

Experiment with with different layer effects!

SOME TIPS

Paint a soft shadow around the eye lid, and for added realism, paint in some white highlights, this helps give

the eye a wet look.

Layer effects

Use the move / transform toolto position the eyes, in the

direction you want yourcharacter to be looking.

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IRIS TEXTURE

For the iris in this tutorial, I painted squiggly lines in a circular pattern, then made a custom brush from it. I then

loaded the custom brush and stamped and rotated the brush several times, using slightly different colors. You can

use your own brushes or pre-made brushes, here's some examples below.

Experiment with the pupil shape too.

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No iris. All black.

Using styles

and filters.


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CREATING A CUSTOM BRUSH

How to create your own custom brushes using Photoshop.

First, paint the shape of the brush you want. Or select part of an image you would like

to use as a brush. (Maximum size of 2500 pixels.)

Here, I made a round pattern for the iris.

From the Edit menu, click Define Brush Preset.

Choose a name for your brush and click ok.

Now, when you open your brushes, you will see your new brush

at the bottom.

Make sure you save your brush by clicking

here, then choosing Save Brushes.

When youve painted your eye, you could make it into a brush.

Here Ive made a brush from the painted eye.

Then I made a new transparent layer above the eye brush layerand set the layer to color.I then painted the colors on to the color layer.

Painted eye. Eye as a brush. Eye (from a brush) with the

colored layer above it.

Eye made with

the eye brush.

Eye brush

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If you make any changes

to your brush that you want

to keep, click here to save a new

preset of the brush.

For instance, here Ive changed the brush so that is scatters when I paint. I did

this by checking the Scattering box in the Brushes palette.

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Now I have both brushes, the first brush I made and the same brush againwith the scattering setting.

Delete any brushes you dont want, then save your brushes using a unique name.

For instance you could call them My brushes.

Load these brushes whenever you want to add to them. (You may have to

restart Photoshop to see your saved brushes).

Then I clicked here to save a new preset of my brush.

To delete a brush, right click on the brush you want to delete, then click Delete brush.

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Elliptical Marquee1

Brush2 Dodge andBurn tool

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Eraser3 Color6

Photoshop Photoshop Elements Gimp

TOOLS USED IN THIS TUTORIAL

Where to find the corresponding tools in Photoshop Elements and Gimp.

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Fill Tool4

Edit - Transform -Scale.

Or this tool

when Show Transform Controls

ticked.

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7 Transform / Scale

8 Image - Adjustments -

Hue / Saturation.

8 Enhance - Adjust color-

Adjust Hue / Saturation.

8 Colors - Hue - Saturation.

8 Hue / Saturation

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9 Layer Effects

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I hope youve enjoyed this tutorial.

Thanks for following along.

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