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Watercolor for beginners : Learn to Paint Realistic Eye with Watercolors

teacher avatar Puhazholi Saravanan, Artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      0:37

    • 2.

      Supplies

      0:39

    • 3.

      Eye sketch and how to mix skin tone

      5:17

    • 4.

      Base layer : Wet on Wet technique

      11:09

    • 5.

      Second Layer : Wet on dry and Blending , Tips and tricks

      18:57

    • 6.

      Fine details : Eye lashes, highlights

      8:39

    • 7.

      Final touches

      0:17

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About This Class

Painting realistic eye with watercolors may be very challenging, because mixing right skin tone, building up from light to dark, control of paint and water, and mixing  to muddy colors are the real issue. In this class I'll teach you to master these things.

 Join this class and you will discover:

  • Simple exercises for better paints and water control
  • Color theory for skin tone and how to blend the  highlighted area with shadow parts
  • Limited color palette for realistic eye
  • Wet on wet and wet on dry techniques 
  • Tips and tricks for realistic rendering

The lesson may be interesting both for amateurs artists who never stop improving their technique and for courageous beginners.


I'm looking forward to seeing you in the class!.

Here are  materials I used in this project:

- Watercolor paper - Canson Montval -  100% cotton, cold pressed, 300 gsm + paper for color test and exercises

- Brushes: Mop brush no. 2, round brush no. 6, no.000 for fine details

- Colors: Crimson lake / Alizarin Crimson, Permanent Rose / Quinacridone Rose / Bright Rose, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Orange, Paynes Grey, Blue Violet, Turquoise Green  

- Clipboard + masking tape

- Paper towels

- Cup of water

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Puhazholi Saravanan

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Hello, I'm Puhazholi, a full time Research Scholar in Computer Science and Engineering from India. I paint since from my childhood and explored various mediums such as watercolor, gouache, oils, acrylics, charcoal and graphite drawings. I mostly prefer to bring realism to my paintings. Now I am focusing on watercolor portraits.

Besides my research works, I paint daily at least spending a couple of hours. I have put many art stalls and my art prints were SOLD and still on demand. My EYE painting was the most recommended workshops and best selling artwork. I continued on conducting painting workshops on portraits, botanicals, landscapes.

You can also find lots of painting resources on my YouTube Channel @paintwithpuhazh, follow me on Instagram @puhazholiartworks if you wa... See full profile

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Transcripts

1. Introduction: Hi, this is puhazholi. I have been interested in AD since my childhood. One of the most favorite and interesting medium is Watercolor. For me. In this class, we are going to Paint watercolor eye will explore what are the record materials, color palette for any skin tone. How to mix colors for skin, and some techniques like wet on wet and wet on dry techniques. The Eyes gates is given and you can download or even you can draw it by you. I wish to see your wax in the project section. I hope you will enjoy this class 2. Supplies: Hi, we need tissue paper. I'm going to use one more brush for the larger area on the other two for the working on minor details, I'm going to use round synthetic brush number six, triple zero for fine details. The Mop brush number two, I'm planning to use for working on large area and to wet the paper. Now, let me introduce my skin tone palette is my all time color palette. I use Crimson lake, Burnt Sienna, ultramarine deep, a lot Ochre, Cadmium Orange, Bright Rose, Turquoise, Green, Paynes Grey, and Blue Violet. This color palette can be used for any skin type 3. Eye sketch and how to mix skin tone: In this video, we will see what are the parts of the ice and how we will call it. So it cannot be a big mess when I'm talking about the particular name of the path. And you will be easy to find it. And also you can paint along with me. I'm drawing here era phi sketch. So I will be naming the parts of the, I. Consider the light source falling here, and I will be calling it test the highlighted area. Highlighted area of a pupil. I can say iris. And opposite to the light, we have the internal reflection. That is in the, in the internal reflection only V should be Painting deaths in a very light color. The outer part is iris, and the inner part in nothing is your pupil. The white area is called the sclera. In the eyelids. Eyelashes always start drawing from inverse to the outburst. Will show here. See the eyelashes should be started from the islet Towards upside or the downside. So accordingly, if you are drying for the upper eyelid, you have to point towards upside and do it for the lower eyelid, it has to point downside. So let's start with the eyelid. See the eyelid is bulged so the eyelashes will not be always pointing towards the downwards or upwards. So you have to draw from the side work then downward or sideways. I'm talking about the lower eyelid. For the upper eyelid, the similar way from the side work towards upside or inside. What? I used to be zero brush for drawing the eyelashes. Now, let's see how to mix the skin tone. Now we'll start with wet on wet technique. That is, I'm using the Mop brush to wet my paper and wet paint on the wet paper, wet on wet. So initially I'm taking Blue Violet. Then I use Bright Rose or prepping our Quinacridone Rose. So what about pink color or Rose color you have, you can use it. I'm mixing these both. Also. I'm adding little bit Crimson lake for getting the skin tone. Initial layer. For the initial layer, I'm starting with starting mixing now. Again, I'm taking Blue, Violet and being color, sorry, Rose color. And I'm adding little bit Burnt Sienna. Burnt sienna. So to make it little bit darker. So I am mixing it three all the way in these three colors. Let's see what it, what will get along with the burnt sienna I'm adding little bit. Crimson lake also. See our first initial layer, almost like we're getting. So this is where I'm first layer we are going to Paint with. So do always remember wanting, Don't take it in a very thick consistency for Watercolor. Do add more water until you get the desired color mixes before mixing, before, sorry, before applying into the paper, make a swatch and check whether you are satisfied with the color and then apply it over your painting. And again for the darker shadow area, I'm using burnt umber. And along with that I'm using a locker. And plus you can use the red color, light red color, Crimson lake, or Rose color. Please make sure you are avoiding them. Muddy consistency. Don't apply the dark color. We're in the very first layer itself. We here also we need to build from the light to dark area. The final layer we can use wet on dry technique, that is wet paint on the dry paper for the fine details 4. Base layer : Wet on Wet technique: First we're going to apply water as we are starting with Wet on Wet principle, applied water. And then we will apply our colors. So it will enhance exist tradeoff over Colors. Who were the picture. Now we will make it ready with our color palette. We have seen how to mix skin color using base colors. I have shown to you. I have taken here the subject of lighter skin tone. Start mixing the color. I am taking lighter skin tone. We know what are the colors we required. We need pink, Rose, Burnt Sienna, Yellow ocher, and Alizarin crimson or Crimson lake level, the highlighted area. And you can apply base Painting toward all area. But whenever we're adding layer by layer, we need to leave out the highlighted area. That will help us more to building upon the layers where the Watercolour we need to start to build from the lighter to darker tones. Here we are applying for our pupil, the white area around the people also. We'll start mixing the colors based on our color palette for various skin tones. Now women started applying for color for our outer part of our eyelid. That is, eyelashes do so far that if you closely look into, it will be light pink color, light Rose color. For that, we are going to miss mix arrows Color, little bit orange and red color. Let it dry for some time. And we will next move on to iris and pupil. Whenever he was started playing any color, makes sure that you have applied some water over it. It should not be any excess water. It should not be a dry brush. And start always start with very lighter tone to the darker tone he building onto to dark atom. If the paper is already wet, we can keep on working on it. But if it is dry, just apply till less water before applying any Color. Few seconds back I have eye placement of water over the iris and pupil. So I thought it is very x's, so that's why I'm waiting for a bit. We will start working on our outer area of our eye. So as we have seen already, we know what are the color mixes will start building from the base layer to the top. We know how to mix the skin tone. We need three colors to mix the first skin tone, which we have already seen, Bright Rose, Burnt Sienna in the Crimson lake. Or if you have Alizarin crimson, you can use that. Let's draw pupil and iris, but the pupil used to be very dark color. We can use black color for that, for the iris, but we need to, we can use brown color bands and now it can be light gray. It can be a Blue is bluish color. Whatever color calorie want based on the real-time reference you are having. You can use it here. I have used to the brown iris. So I'm just using the breath Burnt Sienna and I'm painting it over it. Always remember that outer layer, that is the outer circle of you at Eyes is not there like hard line. It will be a soft H, I can say these are ages. Ages of the iris is very soft. So we should not make it as Drawing, make it like Drawing. Very hard edges. Like drawing with a pen, black pen or putting their line, black line. We should not do it if it closely observe the iris, but we could able to see the part is little or diminishing over the edges light like grayish, bluish color according to your iris color. With the light color. And we will keep on building upon the bilayer Here in the upper part of my I wear my eyelashes, upper part of the eyelashes there. We used to have here shadow like things. So I'm just playing very dark color over the iris. Coming down. We wrote that the reflection is the opposite side. We will be having the deflections. So whenever we face light or light sources, the light source will be reflected from the I and II. It has the internal reflections in the cornea. The cornea where at the place no internal reflection happens. So we have to make it as a very transparent layer over it. So that's why I'm not applying. Somewhere else. Eye plays a very dark color where the actual rights or for that, it will be a dark color. And opposite to the light source. We have an internal reflections there, we have it. Very light. They ages of the iris used to be dark. That is a dark line, but it is a soft edge. So I'm just making it a dark circle. And afterwards I will be applying a little water over it to make it a very soft edges. Now follow the same procedure as we did below over eye out dry skin tone. The same you can follow for the upper part. Leaving out the highlighted area. Gesture. I'll play the carlos skin tone color. What we discussed before, over the eye 5. Second Layer : Wet on dry and Blending , Tips and tricks: In this video, we will see how to add up. The second Layer. Here will be working on the wet-on-dry technique. And also we will see how to blend. You are highlighted in the shadow area. How to blend your hard and soft edges. Let's start with the eyelid, upper eyelid. Here I am taking only two colors. That is Cadmium orange and the Bright Rose. I'm mixing it to Color. And why? Because I need the very light pinkish, rock. Pinkish. I mean, that Rose color in the eyelid. If you vote in the mirror, we could able to see that party will be very, very light truth. So for that only I'm mixing these two colors and add little more water and make it as two watercolor consistency. Don't Mop play very thick paint consistency. Now it's time to distinguish between highlights and the shadow. I'm just applying the mix of cadmium orange, Bright Rose, Burnt Sienna together, and I'm applying in the shadow area. Later, I am blending it with my dry brush or else you can add little water, little water in the brush, very, very little water in the *****. And you can smudge it. You can spread the water. Here if you see I have not wet the paper before applying the paint. I'm directly applying the paint and then later I'm blending it. Wet on dry technique always work when we are, when we need to distinguish between the highlight and the shadow area. In a similar fashion, start applying your color over the shadow area and then start blending it with the highlighted area. It means that we need to blend those hard edges with the white area. That is the highlighted area. When Blending, the brush should not contain any paint and it must be dampening the tissue paper. And then you have to blend it with the highlighted and the shadow area. Why? Because the paint should not be there for Blending. Otherwise, you will get to damage the painting AND painting itself. The Painting with the highlighted and the shadow area won't blend at all, or is paint the shadow area. Cavell comes over the highlighted area. It will definitely going will be affect our painting. So that's why always make sure we're bending the pair. The brush should be very clean and damp and it should not be too watery, and it should not be too dry. We could able to see the differentiation of highlight and the shadow in the upper eyelid. And a similar fashion we are going to work on in the lower eyelid. Here, one important thing is that we need to distinguish between our eyelid and the lowest skin part. So far that I'm applying little bit darker, little darker between the area of eyelid and the skin tone. Continue the same process as we did before. For the upper eyelid. In the start blending it makes sure all the tips what I have chat right now, keep working on until you get the satisfied result. It is doesn't matter how many layers we are adding to our painting. So make sure that you are not damaging your paint. And the paper also let the before layer dries. Because one leaf we can, when we are going to add the details, we need to work on wet on dry technique. So make sure you are previous layer dry before you are applying your painting. It doesn't matter how many layers we are working on. Until we get the desert desert we can work on, but make sure that you are not damaging the paper and we are not what we're doing our painting. Now coming to the pupil and iris, but I wish I need to how the iris color as Brown. So what I'm doing, I don't the Bupa, I am painting with the Burnt Sienna. And then outer of the Burnt Sienna, outer edge of the Burnt Sienna, I'm using the Yellow Ochre. So here we have already seen that internal reflection. So that over highlighted part is the opposite direction in the iris. We have the internal reflection. So don't forget this. And more thing. So for the upper eyelid, we need with that upper eyelid shadow will be casted in the eye. I respond So that also we need to have some darker or lighter darker thing. We need to color it with some darker. So that's what I have date. And again and again I am building upon the layers to make my iris very dark brown color. I know it's, I'm adding little bit a Yellow over the outer of my Burnt umber. Starting with the age of the iris, I'm making it a little bit darker. Later, I will be applying. We're Wanli the clean, wet brush ****** over the tissue paper to make it a little bit softer edge. So this we have already discussed in the previous video that the outer part, that outer butt of the iris, the outline of the Irish should not be hard hearted. Ensure this. Just have a look at in the middle and closely I'll show you where it is. But you could able to understand what is the pupil and how you were in this part is the desire was designed and how they dessert, like hard or soft edge. Again, start blending that sclera in the outer edge of your iris. Whenever the paper is dry, I'm keep working on the top of that layer. So always don't use any chart paper or any other cardboard paper that doesn't work at all. For the Watercolour, it always preferable to use 300 GSM paper or 140 loops paper. So when we are working on layer on layer, the paper will not get damaged or an are bulged are, we will get very good result. I'm using here the 100% cotton, 300 years paper, watercolor paper I'm using here, Canson, Montval. There are three kinds of this cotton paper that is cold pressed, hard pressed and rough. I almost prefer the cold pressed paper because it will absorb my painting well and it will not be bulged at all. And I could able to achieve the desired result if we want to go or if you want to work with very fine details. And if you're painting contains very much minute details, you can use hot press paper. This they hundred GSM paper or hundred percent Archie will type I and it can last long forever. As you can see in this video, I'm keep on working with a layer on layer. So building start building from the lighter tone to the darker tone and equity able to blend it from the highlighted area with the shadow area. So I hope you have understood that techniques, wet on wet technique, wet on dry technique and how to blend it. All the tips and tricks I have provided. Keep working on this technique until you get the desired result. I'm keep on repeating this process until I'm getting the desert desert. Walking on the shadow area if you need little more darker or you want to keep on working with the more darker thing. Add more Burnt Sienna to you or Cadmium Orange, bank Rose, pink or recite, I could say like that. Or as you are Alizarin crimson, the Burnt umber should dominate over the iris part. I have painted the pupil, the pupil always the black color. So I have used the black here. Now I am keep on working with the islet. I am distinguishing my flesh and the eyelid. That is the INRA, but Now our job is to differentiate between eyelid and the cornea eyelid, that inner eyelid eye with the outer flesh tone. So what I need to achieve here is I need, I need the 3D in boost. That is, we are achieving the realistic thing. No. So I need to achieve that result. So I need to distinguish between the three parts, the flesh tone, the eyelid, and the cornea. If we did mood, deeper dark, shadow, dark area. So we can use, we can add Ultramarine blue with you or Burnt Sienna, Bright Rose, and Crimson lake. So previously I have said about three colors for the shadow area. For lighter shadow area, that we can use. Cadmium Orange, Crimson lake, Bright Rose, Burnt Sienna, the bonds and now must dominate there. If we want the deeper ordered very darker shadow, you can add ultramarine blue or the Prussian blue to this mixture coming to their iris pad. So I have already, in the picture sketch I have described about the highlighted and the internal reflection area if you closely observe this painting. So I have left some highlight that there is a reflection part, very light. And where the highlighted part, that area should be very dark. I'm keep working on with the age of my iris. Why? Because when it is getting dry, my paint become very lighter. So that's why I'm keep on working by layer by layer. Also, if you observe around the pupil that is in your iris part, you have the fine lines, fine lines in the brown area, isn't it? So that I am drawing it with very light brown or the way I can use Burnt umber or the binding is Grey for drawing those lines. I don't concentrate much on the details of drawing those lines because providing over details will renew at Drawing. Keep drawing those lines in a very lighter manner so that it is not details only visible to their audience or to you. Now concentrate on the eye outer part of the iris, outer edge of the iris, that little bit make it clear with the heart. You are hard and soft edge because it is not completely soft edge, it is not completely hard edge. I can say the hard edges some deeper sent and the soft edge is 30%. Likewise, we need to make it. Otherwise, it is like we have some IDCs in eye. So just to make it the sharp line, the other line, the other colors already dispersed and we have already spread it. So already we have made it as a soft edge, so no need to worry about it. We have already discussed that when we are facing the highlighted on the iris part. Here my highlight is one, the upper eyelid is part. So there will be a shadow in the cornea also, that is for the sclera. Sclera, we have a shadow of our upper eyelid. That is what I am making it here. So I'm making a little bit share shadow over my sclera. Here also you have a tape that the sclera won't be pure white. It is light gray or light bluish color. If you closely observing the Mereruka able to see that. So don't make your sclera part of your eye as they complete pure white. It's never going to be like that. If you're making, that means it is like you are seeing dark. I always the highlight and the shadow part may cover painting more three-dimensional look. So don't forget to provide the proper shadow area and highlight the necessary area. Suppose if you want to make very darker complexion of your skin tone, you could add Ultramarine blue, Burnt Sienna, Crimson, lake, Cadmium Orange little bit, and Yellow Ochre, and Bright Rose. If you need mixing all these three not in the equal proportion. The Prussian blue will, must be added very little part. If you add very little pot also, it will start creating a very dark complexion. So make sure you are Cadmium red, Bright Rose, a logger, and the Crimson lake in equal proportion and add little bit Burnt umber and ultramarine blue. The ultramarine blue, we'll keep on increasing your complexion of your skin tone. And the first and foremost tapers in which every artists must keep in mind is don't use black and white color for mixing with any other color that will bring you a painting because it will result in the muddy, muddy, bendy, like the muddy painting, where will not be corrected at all. And it will completely ruin who are painting whatever drawing you are doing node that will be completely ruined. So don't make any of the black or white color with any other colors. So that is important tip here. Now we are almost in the end of our video. So we have work then off with our painting eye and let it dry for some time. Then we will start adding the eyelashes and the highlight in the cornea. In this class we have learned wet on dry technique, how to blend with so hard and soft edges. Hand how to blend with highlighted on the shadow area. Not to end up with a muddy results of your painting. How not to damage your painting and what paper we could use. What are the types of the paper? Cold press, hard press, and rough drawing. How to distinguish each area so that it can result in the three-dimensional Painting. Also, realistic painting. How to work up on the layer by layer, from the light to dark skin tone and how to mask for the darker complexion skin tone. So all we have learned, I hope so. Thank you so much. Join for the next video, how to draw the eyelashes using a brush and also vida micro banks. Thank you so much 6. Fine details : Eye lashes, highlights: In this video, we will draw the eyelashes and we'll concentrate on how to make highlighting your pupil and the internal reflections. Here, we will be seeing two things for drawing the eyelashes. Eyelashes that we have already seen in the previous video. That we have to start from the islet towards the outer words it for forms like a triangular shape. You can see how to draw it from dilated out diverse. I have taken very thin brush, bigger brush, that is triple zero brush. I have used the paint buying this grey minus gray. And I'm drawing from a node to the outlet outputs. We have already seen that we have practiced that the direction of your island should not be downwards and following all the eyelashes should be for following the same direction. Or low, how I wring my hands and how the eyelashes I'm drawing towards downwards. Not all the eyelashes will be pointing towards the same direction. So just to follow how I am drawing here. All right. No. Now we will draw the upper eyelid eyelashes. So here also we need to draw from dilute to the upwards. And here also it forms a triangular shape. And one motif, the larger eyelashes always home the tire triangular thing. We have a short hassles so that will not fall as triangulating. So we can draw with the remaining pain then what we have in our ratios, we can directly draw this shot that has that ugly. That is, it should not follow the mixture, it should not follow the triangular thing. Hi bro, providing the highlight area I naught pupil and iris. But so already we have drawn the day Area and we just need to cover the area with the white gosh. You can use white gouache or white gel pen or white paint. So whenever, wherever I am drawing, so here I'm drawing the opposite part, which we have already seen in the video The opposite part that we'll be having that internal reflection part. So far I've talking about the iris and the pupil. Now the Clara. Clara, that is the white area. Not about the clearer that is that no, not about the white area. I'm talking about your iris only when the light falls into it and the lower ladle. So we will have some deflections of the water so high there on time providing some highlight. And in the pterodactyls I'm providing some highlight because when the light falls, we eat. If you observe in the URI in the mirror, you can able to see that. So just I am highlighting waiver wherever the highlighted part required using my white gosh. We're almost done with the drying over I but I I'm just missing that I need. My eyelashes should be very, very thick, very dark one like apply after applying mascara. For that effect, I am using the 0.1 fine liner pen. I'm using it over the painted area of my eyelashes. So just I am drawing it over it. And also I have for drawing the small eyelashes, small hassles. I'm using the 0.1 micron pen. A big obsession from my side. We have done with our drawing and kudos to all who have participated in this session. Good work guys. And very important thing which every artist should do this without forgetting in their lifetime that we should sign in our drawing 7. Final touches: Don't forget to sign your artwork. I hope you enjoyed this class very much. Thank you so much for joining this class. I would like to see your works in the project section. Thank you so much for joining