Realistic Eye Painting in Procreate: Beginner Guide to Digital Rendering | Yasar VURDEM | Skillshare

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Realistic Eye Painting in Procreate: Beginner Guide to Digital Rendering

teacher avatar Yasar VURDEM, Creative Art Director

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      0:56

    • 2.

      How to Draw Eyes

      3:29

    • 3.

      How to Paint Eyes

      2:32

    • 4.

      Painting Base Colors

      3:18

    • 5.

      Painting Eye Details

      4:59

    • 6.

      Complete Illustration

      4:37

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In this beginner-friendly class, you’ll learn how to paint realistic eye step by step using simple and effective digital painting techniques. This class is designed for artists who want to improve their rendering skills and better understand form, color, and texture in portrait painting.

Your instructor, Yaşar Vurdem, is an experienced illustrator who has worked with global brands such as Adobe and Prime Video, bringing industry-level knowledge into an accessible learning experience.

What you will learn:

  • How to break down the structure of eye into simple shapes

  • Understanding light, shadow, and color transitions

  • Techniques for creating soft blends and realistic textures

  • How to add details like highlights and subtle imperfections

  • Brush control and layer management for clean results

By the end of this class, you’ll have a solid foundation for painting realistic eye and a finished artwork you can proudly share. This class focuses on practical techniques you can apply immediately to your own character or portrait work.

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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: Welcome to this class on drawing realistic Eyes in Procreate. In this class, we will explore the fundamentals of anatomy, shading techniques, and hope to bring the depth and life to your digital artwork. Whether you are beginner or inter made artist, this class will guide you step by step through sketching, coloring and refining and eye using Procreate. We will also cover brushes, blending, metals and tips for more expressive and realistic results. By the end of this class, you will have complete eye illustration and better understanding of digital drawing techniques that you can apply to your feature artwork. Let's get started together. 2. How to Draw Eyes: Welcome again. In this part, I will teach you how to paint and draw ice easily. For painting yes, you just need to think like paint one ellipse at first. And if you want to paint the eye, then you need to have Is like this and another circle in it, one, two, three circle. And this part have the textures like this. And there's This is simply the vision of the eye. And it is from the front with. But if you want to paint I from the different angle, you just think like it is turning, so it will look much more ellipse than the normal version from front. And if we make it like left, it will look like this. And let's talk about how to sketch eyes easily. For sketching eyes, imagine eyeball like this. And we have IRs and middle the tail of eye. And after this, all you need to do is covering I like fish shape. You can put the tail here and have this angle like this. And after it, you need to cover the eye top of the eye and the lower part of the eye just like this and finish this. It is basically how to paint I if the eye is looking a bit left, so the angle will change and I will look like this. It is totally depend how you paint. For example, from the left weave, we will have something like this. It is covering the corner. And basically like this. You can practice eye paintings with painting simple shapes like at first, I'm painting a simple shape like this, then I'm getting into painting the details of eye how it looks. It is open or like cat eye or different kind of things. Hope you enjoy this process and see you in the next video. 3. How to Paint Eyes: Hello. In this part, I will talk about how to add expressive colors to the eye. At first, I started from the eyeball and imagine like it is really white. And we have the iris here just like this. And at the middle of it, it is the darkest part of the eye. And depending to light source, we will have like at some part, we need to see the light surface of e. For example, at the left here, I added light. So this part will have small light here, like light effect here and here. Everything is balanced. If we have light here. This part of I should be much more white. And the opposite way should be in the dark. Because I get the light from this part. So after it, all you need to do is cover the eye, and don't forget that. For example, if it is the top part of I, I will paint it like this. This point will be in the dark like shadow because it is not flat and eye lashes drops shadows. And these kind of small details can be like so lidal details, but they give really great amount of detail to eye paintings. So you need to understand how shadows and lights act together. And thank you again for joining this quick quite and see you in the next part. 4. Painting Base Colors: Welcome. In this class, we will paint realistic eye. At first, change the background to gray scale and select some base colors. And after this, you need to sketch the base shape. It's shape. You don't need to paint certain lines, be experimental. And for example, I made sketch like this. I put the base details of it, then open new layer under this layer and continue to adding details. This part, I paint the base color of the eye. And This side will be shadow part of the eye. And this middle will be the darkest part of the eye. And we will paint it softly to catch the light balance. And these parts will be much more lighter. Yeah. And these parts will be a bit darker. 5. Painting Eye Details: And we need to put much more lights for the eye just like this. And we need to paint all areas of eye for putting the shadow like this and like this. And after this, I will go to this layer and make the opacity really low because we don't need these lines anymore, and I want to paint it much more realistic. And this part will be much more bigger and the endpoint of here will be darker. So now I will select smooth line. I mean line brush, and I will start edding the eyelashes. And eyelashes should follow the path of the eye. For example, this left side will be look to the left just like this. And like this. And the will be like this. And this part will be really dark. Yeah. And this part Well, but like this. And these lights give the eye much more realistic effect, and I will keep doing it here just like this. Yeah. And this part will be like this. And I will add some extra lights over here. To make it much more realistic. And after this part, I will collect all layers, and I will make it much more darker, just like this. And let's zoom in here and we'll add much more details over here. And you can define this endpoint much more visible. 6. Complete Illustration: Welcome again, and we will continue to adding details. At this part, we will make some textures for I and maybe here Yeah, it's like this. And now I will create much more eyelashes here. And I will select white. And I will put many highlights around eye and some wet look with these lines to make the illustration much more realistic. Because this kind of bright strokes gives a really good amount of realism to your painting. And I will use skin texture right now and will paint over eye with the corners to make it much more textured. Especially these end points between the connection point of the eye and the eyelashes will be really darker. Yeah, like this. And I will select smooth sheading brush and zoom in here. And I will make these parts much more darker. And this part, especially because it is not flat and I is round like round. So we need to make these parts much more darker. Yeah, just like this. And open new layer with the overlay layer mot then select red color. And apply over corners. You can use this layer mode for, like, makeup and any extra color you wish for it into your painting. And for final detail, I will select white and come here, and I will paint one shape like this. And I will add the reflections of the eyelashes from the top. And it will give us a really great amount of realism. And, of course, we can do same thing for here to increase the detail level of the eye. And thank you again for joining me in this class and see you in the next classes. I will add some highlights here, and, yeah, we are finished with this. Thank you again.