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1. Eyes! Crash Course: What's up, guys? Drug-free Dave here. So I'm gonna do
something a little bit different than what I normally do because normally my classes are really long and drawn out. I loved doing those
kind of classes, but I want to try something new. I want to try something more
short form crash course. This room is gonna
be about eyes. So it's not gonna be as
in-depth as my AI course, my full AI course. But I use i's for all my character's
sketches, things in that. So I sprinkle in little things that I just always
do patterns that I always do with my eyes and I'm gonna share
them with you guys today. So it's not gonna be super long, not gonna be super drone out. So hopefully we'll
see how this goes. Let me know if you'd
like this type of video here on Skillshare. I was gonna put it on
YouTube, but I felt like, why can't I do short-form
videos on Skillshare as well? Let's move on to the next
video, the class project.
2. Class Project: Okay, So by now, you know my class projects
are very short and sweet. This will be no different. All I want to see is some eyes. Some of these
techniques for eyes, I love to see you do your
own characters and then just use these techniques
for their eyes. That's what I love to see. Be sure to share them to the group will not
to the group to the total pulse at
a time. But across. Make sure you share
them to the class and I look forward
to seeing them. So let's move on
to the next video. We're going to jump right in and we're gonna get started with these short form
tutorial I videos.
3. Part 1: Better. The first thing is your
own physical eyes. Lower those color
of your background. This will save your eyes.
It's not so bright. And it'll also allow you to make the darks and the lights. For example. We can see the darks. And you can see the lights. And you won't see the lights as perfectly if your background is white because
they just disappear. It just adds a whole other
element to your artwork. The next thing is when
you make eyes here, I've just used two circles. When you make eyes,
whatever you do. Don't put the eyes
in the middle. Never do this. Never put
the eyes in the middle. So if you're gonna make eyes move them so that
they're sort of in inwards towards the center. Always move them so they're
inwards towards the center. This will be so that
they're looking. So your character is looking straight, a straight this way. I know it feels weird. I know it feels
odd. But trust me. You don't want your eyes to look like this because this is like that dead doll look there
staring into space. So your eyes are never staring straight forward
on their own axis, your eyes will always be
staring at one singular point. So that's why our eyes are
never straight out this way. They're always gonna
be up this way. So that's kind of
what this shows. Let me just go back to the
put them in the middle. Always want to have them
towards the center. I see this a lot and he
really, really bugs me. I'll just make some nice
at all details here so my eyes just look a
little bit prettier.
4. Part 2: Another thing I see lot of
times with eyes is this. I'm just going to
separate these two. They're on different
on different layers. Another thing that I see
all the time Is this. The eyes won't be
on the same plane. You should keep them even
cute them on the same plane. Otherwise they'll look crazy. Like one can't be closer to
this and this one isn't. You just want to keep
them on the same plane? The same generally
on the same line. Regardless of where they are, you want to keep that
distance around. That being said.
Obviously sometimes the characters will look around. If you want to make
the eyes like this. Here's a simple way to do it. This I still fairly circular. But this, I see this little
yellow mark right here. This little yellow.
I can't see it. Let me turn it. This
yellow bit right here. This gives you where you
can change your circle. For example, if I go
to free form and I want to flatten my circle, Let's say I wanted, I wanted
to flatten like this. I'll make sure
that this is here. This way. I can
flatten it like this. It's the same thing if
I was to move it here, see it flattens that way. Hopefully that's not
too hard to understand. Basically, if I wanted
it to flatten down, see how this doesn't
flatten down. It just gets smaller. If I wanted to flatten down, I would take this yellow would turn it so
it's on the top. That's where I want
it to flatten. Then I could flatten
it like a pancake. That's what that yellow bid
does. Play around with that. And you'll understand
when you do need it. It's very, very handy. Anyway, going back to where I was, I want to flatten this. I want to bring it down here. Flatten it a little
bit more. Here we go. So this is more like they're
still looking at 11 objects. So you kinda have to
think of it this way. This actually this
isn't the best. Sometimes I do have
to adjust it to make it to make it right. This almost looks like it's
looking at something here. Like if something was here. Just think about that triangle. So if I was to take this circle and flatten
it a little bit as well. There we go and put it here. Now it looks like it looks
like he's looking this way, like little further off in the distance rather than looking at something
right in front of them. That's kind of how you have
to think of these circles. So the closer these
circles moved to the outside of the eye. Like for example, if I was
going to look to this side, then they would
actually start to, let's see if I can free
form both of them at once. He's looking there and I'll take this one i
and bring it back. This might be a little flatter. I'm gonna change it so I
can flatten it this way. This one might be
a little flatter. Like this, something like that. You just have to remember
that you can't keep it. You can't keep them
circles all the time. The further they are to
the edge of the eye. The flatter they will be.
5. Part 3: Do I just want to make these ai's bigger for no good reason. One of the, one of the
reasons that I like to make the background gray is because when you add the white, it really makes a difference. It really makes it look nice because the whole
background isn't white. That white is the lightest
part on your Canvas. Let's say I make this here. This here. The white is very strong. Now, it's less strong when the background
is completely white, is still fine, but I
think it's more powerful. It draws you more
to the eyes when the background is a more
neutral color and the white is the brightest
part on the canvas. Another thing that I do
is make jelly beans. So I'm gonna take g brush. I'm gonna lower the
opacity to 30%. I'm just going to make
a nice shape here. Essentially what this shape
emulates is like light bouncing off of a surface
or something onto the eyes. And it just gives it a nice, more realistic sort of
glossy, glossy look. You can do the same
thing to the top. If you have your background. Different color, like let's say your background
is this color. You can actually
take this color. And I'll make it, I'll
make it very light, but a light version
of that color. I'll make it this color. It seems imperceptible, but it just incorporates a little bit of the
background into the eyes, which is always nice. Last but not least. Another thing actually, there's two more things
that I wanted to. So let's jump to the next video.
6. Part 4: One of the thing that I
always do when I'm making eyes is I add in a shadow underneath
the eyelash. I'm gonna go ahead and make it. I'm gonna make it
underneath these lines, but over everything else. So this is what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna hit the plus and add a new layer underneath
the line work. We can even call it shadow
just so there's no confusion. I call it shadow. Not to
be confused with shading, which what was his, what
we'll do momentarily. But for the shadow, I'm
going to go down to my eyes. The yellow eyeballs. Going to tap on it. Hit Select. I'm going to tap on
this layer again. Go to shadow black. Now I'm going to
choose g brush again. But for this layer, I am going to make
it a multiply layer. I'm going to bring it
all the way down to 30. I want to bring this, I'm
gonna bring the opacity up. This brush doesn't
have to be too big. And basically I'm just gonna
make a line like that. That's essentially all. There's one. And you can actually hold it. You can hold it. And it'll do that
snap shaped thing. Here we go. Nice little shadow. It just kind of separates
this top eyelash. Last but not least, let's do a little
bit of shading. I'm a big fan of shading. Sometimes if I don't
say the character, I'll shade a little
bit of the eyes were on the eye
layer alpha lock. You can click on the select. We don't need to
be, we don't need to have anything selected. Now I'm just going to grab
this color of the eyeballs. I'm going to bring it darker. I'm going to go to
my Disney airbrush. Fairly big. Wherever you put. This means the light
is hitting there. The bottom part would be darker. Light up here, darker here. So let's go ahead and use
our airbrush and just make the bottom darker,
really lightly. Just kind of build
up that darkness on the bottom part of the eye. Then eventually if you want to, you can go even darker, but just be careful
not to do too much. You don't want it
super, super dark. Go, maybe the very
bottom can be dark. Perfect. Now you have nice-looking eyes. Into. Start out with these eyes. Again. You just use the happy circle. That's all I use for
these eyes. Happy circle. You can make. That's how they started out. Just two eyes like that. But this is how we
make all my eyes. And I just think
they look very fun. It can change the colors. You can take my eye class and you can learn how to do
really, really in depth. Eyeballs are irises
and things like that. But I just wanted to kind of
play around with the faster, less intense fun workshop
here on Skillshare. And I hope you enjoyed it. Let me know what you think.
I loved drawing eyes. I can draw it as all day long. But I'd like to show my
little tips and tricks. Alright. See you in the next video.
7. Thank You! : All right. So that's
all I got for you guys. Again, please let me know
what you think about these. And if I should make more
at a good time making it, and it's just a lot
less that goes into the production of them because I'm not recording hours and hours and hours of video. But I'm happy to
post more short, short-form videos like this if you're interested
and if you like them. So please let me know in class. You can let me know
in social media. You can reach out to me on
Instagram, anything you want, but let's just keep growing and keep getting
better as artists. All right, I'll keep
drawing, keep sculpting. I'll catch you all
in the next video.