Eye Painting in Procreate: Step by Step for All Levels | Yasar VURDEM | Skillshare

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Eye Painting in Procreate: Step by Step for All Levels

teacher avatar Yasar VURDEM, Creative Art Director

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Topics include illustration, design, photography, and more

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Topics include illustration, design, photography, and more

Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:16

    • 2.

      Paint Base Color and Sketch

      1:55

    • 3.

      Describe Shadows

      5:23

    • 4.

      Increase detail of Eye Irıs

      4:49

    • 5.

      Paint Eyelashes

      5:45

    • 6.

      Add Highlights over Eye

      5:53

    • 7.

      Paint Micro Details and Eyebrow

      7:08

    • 8.

      Complete the Illustration

      4:35

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About This Class

Eyes define the emotion of every portrait and in this class, you’ll learn to paint them with clarity, confidence, and style. Taught by Yaşar Vurdem, a highly recognized illustrator known for his detailed portrait work and creative collaborations with Adobe, Billie Eilish, Wacom, Logitech and more, this class gives you practical steps you can follow no matter your level.

Yaşar shares the exact Procreate techniques he uses in professional commissions: how to build a clean value structure, craft luminous irises, blend skin naturally, and add the subtle highlights that make an eye feel alive. Lessons are short, focused, and designed for all skill levels  from beginner to advanced.

You’ll learn through guided demonstrations, simple assignments, and clear explanations that turn complex concepts into easy, repeatable steps. By the end, you’ll be able to paint a polished eye study you’ll be proud to share in the project gallery.

What You’ll Learn

  • Build accurate eye anatomy with quick value sketches.

  • Paint realistic irises, reflections, and shadows.

  • Use Procreate brushes for lashes, texture, and soft gradients.

  • Add depth, color harmony, and expressive emotion.

  • Fix common mistakes and improve shape, structure, and lighting.

  • Export your artwork for portfolio and social media.

Why This Class? (Credibility + Trust)

Yaşar Vurdem’s portrait work has reached a global audience, leading to collaborations with Adobe, Billie Eilish, Wacom, Logitech, and various creative campaigns. His teaching style is clear and beginner-friendly while still delivering the professional insight intermediate and advanced artists look for.

If you want a step-by-step approach based on real industry workflow  this class is for you.

Who This Class Is For

  • Beginners learning digital painting for the first time

  • Intermediate artists improving their portrait skills

  • Illustrators, character designers, and Procreate users seeking a clean, repeatable eye-painting method 

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Yasar VURDEM

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Welcome! I'm Yasar Vurdem a digital artist, illustrator, and passionate instructor.

I've spent years developing a vibrant, expressive portrait style that blends realism with bold, painterly energy. Over the years, my artwork has been featured in collaborations with global names such as Billie Eilish, Adobe, Prime Video (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Wheel of Time, Citadel), Wacom, Logitech, XPPen, and many more.

As a professional designer and illustrator, I work across digital painting, character art, concept design, and stylized portraiture. My goal as a teacher is simple: to share the exact techniques, workflows, and artistic mindset that I use in my professional projects in a clear, practical, and inspiring way.

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1. Introduction: Hi, I'm Yasha Rudam. And in this lesson, I'm going to show you how to draw realistic eye step by step. I am illustrator. We worked with global brands like Adobe, Eilish, and many moe. When it comes to the portrait drawing, the eye is the most important feature, and capturing it correctly can completely transform your artwork. We will start by breaking down the basic proportions and placement of the eye. Then I will guide you through building the eyelids, the lahline and the iris with convincing details. You will also learn how to create depth using light and shadow and how to bring life to the drawing with substel highlights. With simple techniques, I will share, you will be able to create smother transactions, stronger contrasts and more realistic textures in your own drawings. So grab your pencil and let's dive into the fundamentals of drawing a realistic eye in the SL share class. 2. Paint Base Color and Sketch: Welcome. In this class, I will show you how to paint realistic eye. At first, we need to select gray color for our background. After this, all we need to do is create skin texture like skin color for our background layer because a we need some background for our eye, and I opened nib layer with Linarc brush to define the shape of the eye. In this step, be lousy for the lines. Donut rush. Just define how it looks. Like the shape of the eye. And after you make the sketch of eye, go to the airbrush and paint under 3. Describe Shadows : Open nave layer under eye and skin color and painted. At top of it, it will be darker. And Okay. And for example, I want to make it a brown eye. Or let's make it blue. And make shadows much more visible. Like this. And I will continue from this part of I, and it will be darker. And after this point, I will collect all layers and open another new layer and we'll work on it like this. I'm defining the shapes of the the shape of the background. And I'm increasing the detail and blending the line. At this step, do not rush, just be slow. And I will select the dark color again, and I will create Okay. And this part will be darker. Okay. Maybe these parts will be much more lighter. And this end of it will be like this. But it will end like red. Much more red. And the top of it will be h. Like this. I'm adding blending the color, and at this part also will be much more darker. And zooming from now, we will add the texture to the eye. For it, create new layers with the color overlay mod with much more lighter brush, apply over it. 4. Increase detail of Eye Irıs: Okay. And open the light of it for create much more realism for our eye. And much more dark colors here. And corners are much more visible. Okay, let's open the layer. Maybe we can switch the discolor for extra colors. And we'll add some open new layer with the colored Dutch mod and we'll apply over it. At some points, it is much more visible. And at this point I'm creating some wetness in I maybe zoom here and try to add some textures over the e. Some textures are like reflections of the image, much more detailed, much more visible like this and and Okay. I will paint line like this because Okay, I will start from this part. And from now, I will collect the layers and zoom to the eye a bit much more. And I will show you the extra techniques right now like warping. I will select with free hand tool, for example, this part, this part like this and I will use verb, a bit much more like this. Okay. And I will collect the other parts. What I did is make the shape of I much more different. And after it, go to adjustments, color balance. I mean, curves and add some light and shadows. A who saturation add saturation a bit. And after it, we will continue to increase the detail level zoom in and go to brushes and select some textured brush to continue adding, increasing the detail. At these parts, we can add some deep details like this. Okay. I'm adding some textures here. 5. Paint Eyelashes: And here. Also, you can use some different kind of textured brushes for make the painting much more interesting. Okay. All right. And select the air brush again. And at corners, we can increase the light Okay. Okay. And corners will be much more darker. Also, this corner, I will so much the edge at first. And after this, what I'm going to do is we'll select the darker color for the upwards of the eye, and I will make the shape much more visible and strong. After it, define the other edge of the eye. For example, it will be end like this and it starts from this part and point this here. But it can be much more softer. And after it, again, go to the brushes and select smooth line. Now I will add some eye lashes. Okay. And this part and this part. For the end of I, I will use the same brush for increased detail level and continue to add details Okay. And the endpoint, I will continue to increase the detail level. Maybe I can add some ti makeup here like this. It will grow like this and like this. Okay. And I will make this I like it. And after this, I will select skin texture and we continue to add detail with this textured brush. Because some textured brushes like skin texture or different kind of brushes is really great tool for increased detail level. So I'm using it right now to create some shiny. And for example, I can make this area much more like dark like make and I can also add some, 6. Add Highlights over Eye: Red colors for some smoky red makeup. Okay. And I will continue to increase the tail level with making the brush much more darker. And select smooth shading again and make this area much more darker. Okay. And I will continue from this side to make it much more darker. Okay. And after all, I will make this part much more darker also. Okay, it is much more better right now. And sometimes you can flip Cavas horizontal. And for example, if I want to make it strange strange line from this part, I can use this shape, like simple shape. I will make it much more deeper. And much more stronger. Okay. And at some points, we can have lights. For example, at this part of eye can have some like skin textures around it. You can place it with some kind of hard round brush. Also, these kind of details is visible at these parts. Okay. And at the top of the painting, I will use much more idle details here. And Okay. And these little details creates realism a lot. So that's why I added so much. And also this part will be much more weather and visible. And you can also add light reflections like wetness over the eye. Okay. And it's created a really good amount of detail. And after it, let's continue to adding eyelashes. Okay. And we'll continue this side 7. Paint Micro Details and Eyebrow: Okay. It is much more better right now, and I want to add some extra color in eye to create much more realism. For example, I added some yellows here. And with smooth shading brush, open new layers, color touch, and use red color at some point, maybe not red color. Let's select blue and use blue hue here, like glow and maybe this part. And select a red color and add some reds here like this. But not much like at some part of it. And we can use the same red as a makeup. But for it, open another new layer with a multiple layer mode and add over portate. Yeah, it is looking much more better right now. And what we can do is increasing the shadows right now. Let's zoom here and dilate some parts of eye reflections. And this part and the left side of eye should be much more visible and have some lighter colors in it. And is much more darker here and add some lights over it like wetness, create a wetness from it. And it is looking pretty good right now, but I will continue to increase the detail level of the illustration. At some point, you can collect all layers and go to the noise and give it a noise because noise makes everything textured. And if you do a bit noise here, it will turn your painting much more detailed, but don't overuse it. And let's work on the micro details like shadows of the each lashes. I like this. And Slec much more lighter color and apply over lashes to increase the detail level and pop up some of them. And you can also create random textures, especially at the light sources. For example, at this part, light is much more strong, so I'm making the textures much more realistic and, uh, Okay. I like it. And some points you can use this wet look in it. Okay. I'm adding this much more skin texture over here. And with eyelashes brush, I will create maybe with the hairbrush, I will create some eyebrows. L. Maybe I can make it much much more brown. Okay. Like this. At some points, you can make much more detailed eyebrows. Like this. Okay, what can we do is increasing the highlights again. 8. Complete the Illustration: Like, for example, I'm putting some light here, here, here, here, like little dots, but it increase the overall details and give the painting much more realistic look. And at some parts, you can use some textured brushes like skin texture and apply over your painting like this to increase the detail level so fast and effectively. I will make this much more visible. Okay. And some parts of I can reflect the lesces. I will show you example. For example, imagine if there is one shape like this. It's like blurry here. And in it, we can see opposite look of the laces like this. Maybe some of them will be bigger, even bigger like this. Much more visible and bigger. And let's add a bit much more detail here. And here. Okay. And maybe here. I'm putting some small details here. And for adding a concept to painting, maybe you can add some like stars to the face like gliders, you know, and at first, just try to add some stars over the portrait. And if there at the lighting, like some stars are much more visible and some stars are much more shorter. And some stars are much more blue, like maybe like this blue and shadows of it will be much more visible also. Like this. And I will make some gray line comes from this side because there is also reflected light in eyelashes that creates much more realistic look adds a much more realistic look to eye. And hope you enjoy this process and thank you for joining me in this class and see you in the next videos.