Draw a Simple But Realistic Eye in Autodesk Sketchbook

In this lesson, I’ll show you how I draw my eyes when their the center of the piece! Don’t go through all this work just to draw a teeny eye. This is my first instructable, so I hope it’s not too confusing!

Supplies

You will need...

• An iPad OR drawing tablet
• A working art
• OPTIONAL: A stylus

Step One: Draw the Basic Shape

Draw an almost almond-like shape, making out the eyelashes and such.

The second picture is how the shape would compare to a circle

Step Two: Define the Iris and the Whites

Duplicate the lineart so you can color it in without messing it up! (Best art hack ever!)

Then, decide your eye color! I’m doing purple, for my newest OC, Onyx! Make a white with the tiniest tint of your closed eye color possible, and use that for the whites. Then mark out the Iris and fill it in the eye color.

Use the magic wand tool to select the Iris. Make a slightly darker shade of the Iris, and color it in on the top half

Step Three: Add the Pupil

using an even darker shade, draw the pupil! (Image one)

Getting the DARKEST shade you can without it being black, do a semicircle ring around the pupil. (Image two)

Step Four: Highlights (part One)

create a new layer between the two you already have, and color pick the main Iris color. Get a slightly lighter tone, and draw the highlights! When you’re about halfway down on either side, start making them more transparent until they fade away!

Step Five: the Glow

create a layer between the eye and highlights. Using a slightly paler tone than the highlights, do a solid spray paint below them. (Image one) it looks hideous, I know. We’ll fix that.

Click the layer, select blending mode to glow. Not soft glow, but glow. (Image two) just bear with me, guys. It gets better

Lower the opacity to the desired level. You may want to blend the glow a bit to make it more natural (image three) see it’s better!

Step Six: the Glare

create another layer, above the glow and highlight and eye but below the final lines. Select a pale blue, Mark the glare. One on top, two on the bottom. You can lose their opacity if you want.

Then we’re done!

But.

DO NOT.

EVER.

UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.

MERGE. THE. GLOW. LAYER.

This will send everything into utter chaos.

DONT DO IT