And now we are at the last and the fourth step, which is the highlight and the post-prod.
It's the step where you're going to add that highlight in the middle of the eye. And each time I add it,
it always like--surprises me how much of a difference it makes.
And that's why I'm trying to put it in the end, because you'll see that is going to change the eye,
it's going to make it sparkly right away. It's going to make it going to add a lot of realism right away.
So we're going to do that on this one. We're going to add some highlights, and
then we're going to play with the adjustment layers, to make sure that our
eye has enough contrast, there's a lot of texture everywhere,
we're going to add a little filters, a little bit of noise, to make sure that we
have that feel of having some texture. And all that is going to once again add
a little bit more realism to the eye.
So the first adjustment here that I'm going to use is the brightness-contrast, making sure that
the contrast is good enough.
Then I'm going to add a little bit more noise. You can find the noise over Filter, and
you want to choose Noise, and then add noise. And depending on the illustration,
you want to see the percentage that you want to add. Here I had a big
illustration in terms of pixels, so I think I'll add around 15%, but
usually around 4-7% depending on the size will be plenty enough.
The goal is to add a little bit of texture but not too much.
Here I'm adding a layer of Multiply, and I paint on black, and then I delete the part that I don't want to.
And I'm using the multiply layer just to add a little bit more shadow cast by my top eyelid.
I will continue painting on top of my illustration, adding a little bit more
texture and making sure that there are certain areas that are easier to read.
It's going to give a sense of being able to have a sort of a map on the illustration, right.
You want some places to be more sharp, and some things are more loose,
so your eye is moving all around. If you have everything sharp at the same place,
or all the contrast of the same place on all equal,
it's going to be really difficult for people to actually read the illustration.
Here I'm using the sharpen tool to add a little bit more sharpness to my iris.
It's a tool that you can use on its own layer by clicking the sample all layer on the top.
And that way, you can actually go back and delete the part that you don't want.
And that's it for this tutorial, guys! I hope you liked it.
Stay tuned if you want to learn more about my process.
I'm planning on releasing soon a full-on tutorial on how I color my illustrations.
And as always, you can visit Paintable.cc if you wish to see more tutorials.
Happy Painting!