What about her eyes?
For God sake, what happened to her eyes?
Run away, run away, run away, run away!
What's up guys, welcome back!
Today we're going to be having a look at how I created these eyes on the witch model.
I hope you find it useful.
We'll start off by painting the whites, and for that I mixed up a dull
desaturated grey tone, by first taking a bit of this Secret Weapon Old Mud,
and lightening it with some Scale Colour Pale Skin.
Then I mixed in a bit of Scale Colour Adriatic Blue to get this blue grey tone.
I decided it wasn't quite dark enough so I mixed in a tiny bit of black
just to dull it down slightly.
This is going to look way darker on your palette than on the model
so don't be too concerned about that.
Alright, so then I just applied the grey tone over the eyeballs on the mini.
And I'll do this over a couple of layers to get a nice smooth coverage.
Mix some of the pale skin into the grey to lighten it and we'll use that for our first highlight.
Applying the paint onto the eyes in the areas where they would be catching the most light.
Once you've applied a couple of layers you can blend out the edges by using some stippling.
Usually I would thin the paint down to a thick glaze at this stage
but you can also use the same layer consistency and just ease up on the brush
in order to control how much of the paint gets left on the surface.
So you can actually control the level of transparency by being gentle and barely touching
the surface you leave less paint so it's not going to be as opaque as when you apply more pressure.
The general stippling technique is the same in that you're still taping the tip of the brush on
and around the edge of your highlight, letting the small dots obscure the join between the two
colours, the only difference here is you're using a lighter touch.
It's much faster doing it this way but it does require more control.
I just like to show different approaches when I'm making videos, it gives you more
things to try out and stops me going insane explaining the same things over and over again.
Once you have those edges blended out,
add a bit more Pale skin into the mix and we'll go back for a second highlight.
Applying the paint in the same spots as before, but this time making them about half the size.
Once those are in place we can blend them out, using stippling.
Still keeping that same paint consistency and just
easing up on the brush so you're using a very gentle pressure.
That you're going to have some control over the opacity of our dots.
If you don't use a gentle touch here the dots will be too opaque
and you'll find it hard to create a subtle fade.
You can see this is a lot faster than using a glaze consistency
so if you don't have the patience for glazing this might be something you want try out.
Alright, so now that we've painted the whites we can move onto doing the irises.
If you look at some reference pictures of eyes, you can see that aswell as being full of really
intricate and interesting texture, they have quite a dark outline around the edge of the iris.
Now, when you're painting it's usually a good idea to go from the outside and work your way in.
So with that in mind we'll start off with that dark outline.
And to do that we're first going to take some Scale Colour
Adriatic Blue and mix a bit of black into it, darkening it down.
To create the shape of the iris we'll first paint the outside edge.
Just painting on a thin curved line.
Then we'll fill in the shape blocking in the whole area with our dark torquoise.
Here I'm kinda using a bit of a cheat.
By having the eye look upwards, we don't need to create a perfect
circle because the upper half of it is going to be hidden behind the eyelid.
So that kinda makes things a bit easier.
Once you have that you can start to build up the colour of the iris.
For that we'll take some of this Kimera Magenta and darken it down a little with some black.
And we'll paint this onto the middle of the iris
leaving that dark blue outline around the outside edge.
Now my original plan was to use little lines
radiating out from the centre point but I underestimated just how small the eye was
so I quickly abandoned that and went for a more random texture.
As we really don't have enough surface to be able to control those little lines.
As we're going for a textured finish you don't need to worry about getting
this layer nice and smooth, or even fully opaque really.
Just roughly place it into the centre of the iris, leaving the dark blue around the outside.
Add some more of the majenta into your mix to increase the saturation
and we'll go back and essentially do the same thing again.
Just roughly placing some of the colour into the centre of the iris,
trying to leave some gaps so you have some of that darker colour showing through underneath.
Again don't worry too much about the coverage or getting this smooth,
that's not what we're going for here.
We want some variation and texture to the surface so
trying to be precise and smooth is going to be counter productive.
Add some pale skin into the mix to lighten it and
we'll go back and paint on some more obvious textures.
Just applying little dots of colour onto the iris.
Now that we've created a bit of texture we'll add in our pupil
so we can get a better idea of how it'll look.
For that I'm just taking some black and painting on a little circle in the middle of the iris.
Add some more Pale Skin into the mix and we'll start to build up the highlights.
So here I'm placing these as small little dots on the right side of the eye.
I'm only doing them on one side in order to create a decent amount of contrast.
if we were to do it on both sides it'll look a bit samey.
This way we're going to have a clear deliniation between the light side and the dark side.
Mix in some more Pale skin to brighten the colour and we'll do that again.
Just focusing on that right side of the iris.
There's hardly any space to work with so I'll just do a couple of dots.
Add some more Pale Skin into the mix, making it really quite bright this time
and we'll go back and paint on a couple tiny highlights.
Yep that'll do.
Now we'll take some of that pale skin on it's own and place a highlight onto the pupil.
Near the iris.
We've got the light coming down from above
so our highlight should be near the top of the pupil in order to simulate that.
That's probably a bit too small so I'll go back and make it a bit bigger.
It looks kinda cool if you can make the highlight overlap slightly onto the iris.
In order to create more contrast I'll add a small highlight into the darker part of the iris.
Just about here.
Yep, size is OK but it's not quite bright enough so I'll just add a bit more..
Whoops!
That's OK we can wipe that off with a damp brush.
Alright, now that crisis is averted. I'll just try that again.
There we go, much better.
To finish off the eye we can add some shading to the white.
And we'll do that by taking some of the dark majenta and thinning it down with a bit of
water to a thickish glaze consistency. So this should be more familiar territory for most of you.
Then with hardly any on the brush we'll pull it over the eyeball,
drawing the brush down to that lower part of the eye.
Then we can grab a second clean, slight damp brush
and use it to pull the edge of the glaze across the surface, moving it away from the shadow.
That way we stretch the edge of the glaze
thin so that it fades out and doesn't dry with an obvious line or watermark.
You can do this over a few layers until you like the how it looks.
Just make sure it's dry before you apply each new layer or you'll tear the surface of the paint.
To add some extra detail we can take some of that dark majenta again,
this time using the thicker consistency and paint on a few small blood vessels onto the white areas.
Make sure you have a good point to your brush
and try and trace a couple spidery lines on the surface.
Being light with the brush so you're only painting with the very tip.
I'll do that on the other side as well.
Keep a second brush on hand incase you make a mistake and need to wipe it off the surface.
A bit like this.
If you want you can take some of your Pale Skin and
add a few small highlights onto the white areas.
I'll put one just over here at the very edge of the iris so it lines up with the one on the pupil.
Yeah, I like that.
It looks really cool.
It's added quite a bit of contrast.
Eyes are usually wet so they tend to have a glistening look to them.
So adding a few small dots of pale skin here and there should help to simulate that.
I don't want to overdo it though.
Just a couple random ones on each side should be enough.
We've managed to create quite a lot of detail in a relatively small space.
So I'm pretty happy with how it turned out overall.
Thanks as always for your support, that's all for now.
Thanks again.
Bye for now..
Yep it's size yep that's -
Will it help to confuse it if we run away more?
Oh shut up and go and change your armour!