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Eye Tutorial — Description
This is my first ever tutorial and I hope this helped you . And I'm sorry for the watermark but I recently got my art stolen and I don't want to deal with that again.

Program: Procreate (This is not a tutorial for Procreate only. You can use other programs but use different brushes.)

1. Draw your basic shape. Keep in mind that an eye isn't a perfect oval.

2. Add the pupil and the eyebrow.

3. Alpha lock the lineart layer (Preserve opacity for SAI users) and change the color to a dark brown. If your skin is blue, purple etc. use a dark blue and set the layer to multiply. After that, create a new layer and add the base colors. Make sure the colors are not too bright. And the whites of the eyes shouldn't be gray. It should be brownish or blueish depending on your skin color. Now you have two layers

4. and 5. Add the shadows. As you can see I used a pinkish color. That way you will have more dept. Just go right on the color weel. Don't use a darker shade of your base color. Merge your layers. Now you have one layer.

6. Add light. For the light I used a pale yellowish color and a very pale green. The reason why I used green is because the magenta I used for the shadow and green are complimentary colors. If you don't know about color theory here is a chart you may find useful: s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/2…

7. Blend. I used the wet flat brush for this. Make sure you don't blend too much, it will cause a gradient like this: Spring Trap (FNAF 3 Fanart) and it won't look good. I also added details to the eyes.

8. Details. Add highlight to your pupil and work with your shadows and lights.

9. Eyelashes. If you're like me and can't draw eyelashes use a reference. There is nothing wrong with using a reference. I use eyes that don't have make up on as reference. Create a new layer. After you drew the eyelashes alpha lock the layer and add a lighter color on the tips of the eyelashes using the airbrush. Duplicate your layer and disable the alpha lock on the bottom layer. Use gaussian blur just a little bit. I also used the HB pencil for smaller eyelashes.

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