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Eyes! Crash Course: Quick Character Eyes Workshop

teacher avatar Dave Reed, 2D & 3D Illustrator - Brooklyn, NY

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    • 1.

      Eyes! Crash Course

      0:56

    • 2.

      Class Project

      0:35

    • 3.

      Part 1

      2:24

    • 4.

      Part 2

      4:46

    • 5.

      Part 3

      2:10

    • 6.

      Part 4

      4:23

    • 7.

      Thank You!

      0:49

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Learn some quick and easy ways to improve EYES for your character design work! I'll be working in Procreate / Ipad, but any digital painting application will work, the fundamentals all still apply!  Don't make common mistakes with your eyes anymore, its time to level up! 

Free Brush pack and Eye Study Sheet available for download in Class Resources tab!

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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.