Daily Sketch #14

Worklog of how I’ve digitally painted a female human eye, sort of.

Decided to try drawing something more lifelike – starting with the human eye. I’ve used small, but important tips from a tutorial on Furiae.com as well as Photoshop CS3 and a Wacom Bamboo tablet.

Sketch

I’m struggling a little with finding the right skintone, and values for light and shadow. I just need more practice, much more practive.

Sketch 2

So, you can see I’ve tried to make the skin around the eye a little more lively by adding hues of a warmer red tone on a separate layer. Also added the iris with some blurry detail and gloss on a layer for each of the elements.

The image isn’t done yet, I still need to add inn some more details on the skin (like small pores, perhaps some blemishes and etc. for realism) as well as eyelashes and much more detail on the iris.

Sketch 3

Added more tones to the skin and small details for texture on the skin, this was done on a separate layer as well.

Sketch 4

Added the rest of details on the iris, around the eye, the eyebrow as well as adding eyelashes. I’m quite satisfied with the final result, but some things could have been done better. For example the eyelashes which I feel are a bit too “thick” and a little too dark.

Overall I’m quite satisfied, this is my first take on painting an eye digitally.