Hi everyone. Chiken here.
In the last lesson, we covered the basics on
rendering by going through two techniques that I use.
In this lesson, we will start
our rendering process with the eyes.
For the next few lessons about rendering, I'm
going to use a mix of the two
techniques that we covered in the last lesson.
We have started with the line art, but I'm going
to combine everything and render it on one layer.
Do take note that this process is my style and
just the way that I paint and stylize things, it
can and will be different for other artists.
So I hope you can just pick up some
useful tricks when I break down my painting process.
But just keep in mind that this is
not the only way to paint things.
And as always, if you need me to clarify anything or
if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to put them
in the comments and I'll be happy to help.
So I have here the painting
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plan that we painted last chapter.
I encourage you to use your own painting plan that you
worked on with me, but if you don't feel happy with
rendering that I've provided the PSD file of this one so
you can download it and render this painting with me.
Let's zoom into the eyes first, since it is
what we are going to be rendering today.
The eyes consists of the eyelid, the sclera, which is
the white part of your eye, and the Iris.
We will work from outside to in.
So let's get started on the eyelids. First.
The eyelids are convex because it overlaps
the eyeball, which is a sphere.
So we are going to have shadows at
the end and the middle part will be
highlighted next with an even darker shadow color.
I'm going to go over the eyelid crease and then
draw the line art of the eyelid crease over.
Similar to the second rendering technique I
showed last lesson, we shade first, then
paint the lineart over our shading.
Next, I'm going to outline the shape
of her eyes with a pinkish red.
This not only serves as sort of a makeup, but
I find that it cushions the transition between skin to
the black of the eyeliner a lot better.
Now that we're done with the upper eyelid,
we can move on to the lower.
We will go on with a shadow color and extend it down.
Next, I'll pick her normal skin color and just
add a small highlighted part around the middle.
Then I'll draw a line tracing the
lower eyelid as the lower water line.
Now I'll just clean up her right eye a little bit since right now it's pretty rough
and now we can move on to the eyeline part of the eyelids.
I'm going to choose a pretty dark and saturated
red and start tracing over my very rough lines,
cleaning it up so it looks neater when needed.
I'll just pick the skin color to kind of
erase the eye line a little bit, and I'll
do the same for the other eye.
Next, I'm gonna split the inner part
of the top eyelid into two.
One part is going to follow the direction of the
overall eye, and one part is going to slant downwards.
When I'm rendering eyes, I'm always zoomed in so
much so it can be really useful to turn
on the reference tab in the settings so that
we have a view of the overall picture.
And along the way, I'm just going
to use the liquid to adjust things.
Because I thought the inner part looked a bit dark.
I kind of erased it away and redrew it.
But I used the same technique as before, just
went on with the shadows a bit lighter.
Now I'm just going to liquify it a little bit more.
It's always good to adjust proportions as early
as possible before we've detailed in anything.
Now we can move on to detail the eyeline.
The eyeline can be divided into two parts.
The top layer is the eyeliner part, and
the lower layer is the more inner part.
And it's where our eyelashes will come from.
Starting with the top part, I'm gonna
go over with dull and slightly lighter red,
and then with a very light touch.
I'm going to introduce the hair colour in also.
So in this case, I've painted on a little bit of purple.
Next, at the ends of the eyelids, I'm going to
paint on a little bit of a rose red.
When we are done with the shading, we can
get a dark color similar to the inner eyelid
and just draw an outline over it.
And then we can start painting on the eyelashes.
I paint them from out to in with
a few strokes, following the general direction of
the eyes because they are curving outwards.
And I'll do the same for the lower eyelashes, too.
Now let's move on to the sclera
or the white part of the eye.
For its base color, I like to pick sort of a cream. As a gauge, I usually pick a slightly lighter and
less saturated color of light skin.
I will avoid using white
because it'll look unnatural.
And again, like the transition between
the skin of the eyelids.
I'm going to draw a red border just to act as
sort of a transition between the black and the white.
Now let's move on to shading our square.
Because our upper eyeline and eyelashes will
cast the shadow on the square.
We can shape in a shadow color. Here.
It's shape is gonna kind of follow the eyeline.
I'll also shape the bottom just a little bit.
And now I'll blend it in a little with a smudge brush.
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And now we're done with the sclera.
We can now move on to the Iris.
And again, I'm going to use a red and
just outline it to serve as a transition.
Then on top of that, I'm going
to outline with the lineart.
Now, we'll paint in a shadow color to the top half of the Iris.
The shape will be kind of concave.
I feel that is not dark enough.
So I'm going to darken it just a little bit.
And with that same dark color, I'll draw on the
pupil around the middle of the eye, And I like
to draw it sort of an Oval shape.
Then I'll get a dull desaturated, the color.
I usually use a blue and paint
it into one corner of the eye.
I find that doing this makes our eyes look more
glassy and pretty like it's a little bit translucent.
Now I'm going to define the
pupils a bit by outlining them.
And I'll use that same desaturated color to
color in the middle of the pupil.
And finally, for the highlight, we'll use a
lighter and just a little less saturated color.
I'll color it in in sort of zigzag
strokes that go towards the pupil.
Then I'll choose an even lighter color and
go in again with the same zigzag motion.
Now I'm going to draw sort of pointy shadows that
are the cast shadow of the eyelashes on the eye.
I take a pretty dark color, Maybe the color
of the outline, And I paint it onto the
Iris, Mirroring the direction of the eyelashes above, Using
a white color at really low opacity around 35%.
I'm going to paint in one corner of the
eye, Overlapping the outlines and everything Just to give
it even more of that glassy look.
And finally, we can finish off with the highlights.
Depending on the environment, I may not use a flat white.
Maybe a light Gray or a cream will be good.
Again, I avoid extreme colors
Because it can look unnatural.
So the major highlight will be where
the largest light source is coming from.
But we can have multiple.
I like to paint them in a
sort of irregular shapes, because in real
life, the reflection won't be perfectly round.
Now I kind of like to cut into
the eyelines with a skin color, sort of
following the direction of the eyelashes.
And this is really just a stylistic choice.
And to finish off, I like to outline
the highlight Using the dark outline color.
I'm just going to do very slight tweaking and
cleaning up, but we are pretty much done for
the mission render the eyes of your character.
Today, we went through the
process of rendering our eyes.
I really hope you enjoyed it and learned something new.
In the next lesson.
We will be moving on to the skin.
I'll take you through how I render skin and what kind
of colours I choose to make our skin look more rich.
I'll also be showing you how I make use
of photo bashing If I have trouble rendering anything.