How To Draw An Eye • Procreate Tutorial • Foolproof Method!

hello info people it's genevieve and in this video we are going to learn how to paint a semi-realistic eye in procreate so open up the app create a new canvas and let's start drawing and i say creating new canvas but you're probably going to draw this eye on a portrait that you already have but just for reference the size of my canvas is really just the size of the screen so that's usually the first option in procreate and it's really because i mean this is just a demo so the size really doesn't matter and the first thing to do if you are drawing an eye by itself is to set your background color to a skin color of your choice and here you can see i am using a color palette which comes with my portrait bundle but that's absolutely not necessary you can just pick a color that you want to use and we'll also need to have a sketch to get started with so if you already have a portrait and you just like drawing an eye well you're going to go from there otherwise go ahead and create a new layer and rename it to sketch and you might want to change the blending mode of this layer to multiply and maybe lower the opacity around 50 and i like to use the same color as my background for my sketching lines now for the brush it really does matter i'm going to use the details textured brush from the portrait bundle but you could use the dry ink brush or just the hb pencil that comes with procreate because again we're just like sketching right now so it's totally up to whatever you're comfortable with and then you're gonna loosely uh sketch the shape of the eye and we all have an idea of what an eye looks like you know but believe me what makes the biggest difference in the end is if you actually look at references because there are subtle changes that you can have in the shape of the eye itself and in the way the eyelids look that is going to make the eye look way much more realistic than if you just kind of go from what you have in mind so take the time here to look at other ideas of eyes pictures of eyes and then do a really rough sketch and in this video i'm not going to go super detailed about how to draw everything around the eye because basically this video is an extension of my how to color a portrait video which i will link in description below and also add it in the annotations now and in that video i show you how to color the skin the eyebrows everything but i went fairly quickly over the eyes because the video was already fairly long so this is kind of the deep dive on the actual eye itself but not so much about the surroundings that being said we are going to add a little bit of details around it otherwise it's going to look really creepy in this example to do that go ahead and start by creating a new layer that you're going to put below your sketch layer you're also going to set the blending mode to multiply and lower the opacity around 60 and you're gonna rename this layer to shadows and you're gonna use really whichever brush you're comfortable with so i'm gonna go with the details texture brush that come with the portrait bundle you could go with the dry ink brush or really any brush that you know well and we're going to start adding shadows around the top of the eyelid fold so really loosely we're just going to you know sketch it out and don't need to have any gradient here we're pretty much just filling this entire section and you're also going to line the top of the eye itself so you don't need to be super precise here because you're probably going to have eyelashes and you're going to do the same thing at the bottom but this time making sure you leave a little gap between the actual eyeball and the shadow and this is going to basically show that there is some thickness to your eyelid which is very important because it's not just like a paper little thin thing it actually has some thickness that's going to greatly help in the realism of your eye in the end and don't worry too much about you know details at this step really go super roughly because we're going to add a detail layer later and kind of refine everything and you can use the smudge tool i like to set it to the sticker brush that comes with procreate in the painting section and kind of blend everything in a little bit but again no worries about you know perfection here we just kind of want to have an idea of the volumes around the eye so that when we start painting the actual eye in the next step we're gonna just know a little bit better of of what's going on okay so let's get started with the actual eye itself which is what the video is all about and for the eye as you can see we're going to create a bunch of layers but don't worry about it right now just start by creating a new one that you're going to rename to eyeball and the blending mode of this one is just normal and we're going to color the actual like shape of the eyebrow itself so for that go ahead and pick a cream color you want to make sure that it's not pure white otherwise you won't be able to add lights later and that that would be that would be really sad and all you're doing here is you're going to start by outlining the shape of your eye and you can use again whichever brush you've been using so far and take your time here to make sure that the shape is exactly the shape you want it to be you could tweak it later but it's going to be a bit more difficult and this this base layer this eyeball layer we're really going to make the most out of it meaning it's going to be as you're going to see later i'm going to explain it to you it's going to be used as a base for a clipping mask so everything else that we draw is going to rely on this shape and once you have the outline you can just fill it in using color drop and moving your pencil from left to right you can actually like adjust the threshold so that it only fills the eye color and nothing else and then you might want to clean up the edges a little bit so that everything is like nice solid clean white well cream and the next layer you're going to create is going to be named hollow it's also going to be set as normal and you're going to double tap on that layer and select clipping mask and what clipping mask does is everything we draw on this hollow shape or hollow layer i should say is going to stay within the shape of the eyeball that we just created so you don't have to worry about you know drawing outside the lines it's always going to stay within this base shape so that's really cool and for this hello color you're going to go with a very light blue and a super soft brush so either the extra soft brush that comes with the portrait bundle or in the airbrushing panel the soft brush that comes with procreate and you're gonna loosely draw this little halo shape around the iris and you're gonna see later that right now it looks crazy but you're going to see later it adds a lot of dimension to the piece in general and it's super quick you're definitely going to create another layer this one is going to be renamed iris and it is also applied as a clipping mask and you're going to pick the color you want your eye to be so in my case i'm going to grab the color palette that comes with the portrait bundle again but you can really pick any color of your choice so i'm going with this bluish gray and going back to my detail texture brush so you could go back with to whichever brush you are using and you're going to draw a circle you can go really quickly then hold your pencil and with a secondary finger just tap on the screen that's going to create a perfect circle in procreate which is really helpful and then using color drop you can fill in and again just tweak the edges to make sure that it is a solid color and because it is a clipping mask if we use the arrow tool we can move it around wherever we want and you see it just stays within the shape so that's super super helpful once it is exactly where you want it to be you can lower the opacity of your sketch a little bit because we're going to start adding details and if the sketch is too dark it's going to get a bit confusing so still on your iris layer we're going to add a little bit of this like outline in the iris that actually makes it really pop that is optional but i think it makes a good difference and to do it you just pick a darker version of your base iris color and you as you probably guessed it just sketch the outline of it and if you're using a brush that has pressure sensitivity and also kind of angled tilt it's going to be way easier because as you can see here i'm able to do a gradient by just pressing lighter on my screen and also tilting my pencil and when i say tilting my pencil i just mean um i'm really getting it close to the screen so basically the angle of my pencil in the screen is really really small and that kind of it makes the brush behave differently depending on the brushes that you're using of course like i was saying but it really helps in kind of creating something a bit smoother instead of a super sharp and small stroke so i like to start with a lighter color and then go in with a darker version of the same color and adding even more detail so i kind of do this outline in two different passes and you can do the same or you could go in just one pass if you want to have something that is a bit less contrasted so up to you here and in the second pass i'm doing pretty much the same thing but i'm focusing this time around the eyelets on the top kind of corners and on the bottom corners i know they're not corners because you know it's a circle but you get what i'm saying and once you have that darker ring around the edges of your iris you're going to move towards the actual texture of it you know that texture that is so typical of eyes so to do it go ahead and create a new layer rename it to texture it is also going to be a clipping mask and the blending mode of this one is going to be add you can set the opacity somewhere around 40 50 it doesn't really matter because you can always go back to it later and i'm going to go back to the color that i use for the base of my iris because since it is set to add it's going to show up as a really light color and that's really cool and very quickly and loosely as you can see here i'm going like super fast you're just going to add some lines that kind of start from the center of your eye or like around the pupil and go towards the outside and just like for the darker ring i like going in with a secondary color this time a lighter version of my blue in my case or a lighter version of whichever color you used and just kind of sprinkle in some more intense textural elements so still we're going really quickly really loosely but it's going to add a little bit more dimension if you use two colors and once you have this really super sketchy texture go ahead and set your eraser to either the soft or medium brush in the airbrushing panel or if you do have my big brush bundle you can use the eraser shape and you're going to loosely and lightly erase kind of the outer part of your texture so that it is not as opaque so you don't want to fully erase it you're kind of creating a gradient that starts from the outside of the iris and moving towards the center of the iris so you do want to keep again like i was saying you do want to see a little bit of that texture but since it was super sketchy and this way i don't want to add dimension we're just erasing kind of the weird pointy bits or making them blend a little bit more at least and you're going to do the same thing this time around the pupil that we have yet to draw but don't worry we're going to add that in just a few steps we are going to add a little bit more details to this uh like a nice eye texture this time the details are gonna be darker so to do that go ahead and create a new layer this is also a clipping mask and you're gonna set the blending mode to multiply somewhere around 50 60 but again you can always come back later and you're going to go back to your base color that you use for the eye and with the same brush you're just going to add some little dots and little lines that are going to come together to create more details and more a more interesting texture overall in the iris and as opposed to the actual you know texture layer that we just did with the lighter color you're not going to add details everywhere we're going to pick some sections and then add the details in there and that way you're going to get something super interesting and that looks a little bit less you know structured you're going to get something that look more realistic and natural if you just pick some sections and focus on those you're also going to darken the surrounding area of what is later going to be the pupil before we move on to the pupil we have one little step which is to add a secondary curl so to do that i mean that's optional but it would be again a clipping mask and the blending mode you would set to color and you could draw this little really interesting ring of a secondary color in your eye and you can go with something totally crazy so in my case i'm going with a golden yellow and it's going to make the eye pop so much in the end and with the same brush super quickly you're just going to add pretty much you can't pretend that the pupil is the sun and then you're adding some rays around it basically that's the best way i can describe it and you might want to just blending this color towards the middle a little bit as well just to make sure that you don't have a gap between the pupil and the color speaking of which it's finally time for the pupil so go ahead and create a new layer it is a clipping mask it is set to normal and you're gonna pick a dark color don't go with a full black otherwise you won't be able to add shadows later but just go in with a almost black and with your same brush you're to draw very loosely and i recommend that you don't use the same trick that we used earlier for the iris to create a perfect circle because i do believe that if your iris or your pupil i'm sorry is too perfect and the edges are like super sharp it looks a little bit strange so i like to have an iris that is a little bit misshapen and that also has you know kind of almost fluffy fluffy is not right word but edges that are not perfectly sharp and just like you did for the iris you can use the arrow tool to reposition it and make sure it is exactly where you want it to be in the eye awesome so we're going to start adding some shadows and it's going to make the biggest difference so to do that create a new layer rename it to shadow set it as a clipping mask and you're going to change deep blending mode to linear burn for now we're going to keep the opacity a hundred percent you're also going to pick a super light bluish purplish type of color which is going to again add a lot of dimension in the eye as opposed to just going in with you know a gray color and because the eyeball is a sphere we want to make it look like it's not flat so you're going to loosely outline the the part of the eyeball that we see so around the eyelids and with your smudge tool again i like to set it to stucco brush but you can use whichever smudge tool that you like you're going to blend those shadows in towards the center so that is a nice gradient it doesn't have to be perfectly smooth though because it is nice if there's a little bit of grit in your instead gradient once you're done blending everything in go ahead and select a slightly darker version of your purplish gray and this time with the same brush that you've been using since the start we're going to draw the actual shadow that the eyelid casts on the eye so the first shadows we were drawing were actually kind of showing the fact that the eyeball is a sphere now we're just drawing kind of the cast shadow that are happening just because of eyelids so this is a thicker line at the top and then a thin line at the bottom and you can go and lower the opacity because at this point it's probably like very very intense i like to lower it somewhere around 70 but that's going to depend on how dark or how light the gray that you picked it first was so before moving on we're going to group our uh eye layer so starting from the eyeball layer to the shadow layer you're just going to swipe them towards the right which is going to allow you to click on this group option here at the top and then you're going to be able to rename this group to i and clicking on this little arrow here you're going to be able to collapse a group which is going to make your file just more organized you're then going to create another this one you're going to rename it to colors and you're going to set the opacity to around 90 but again we can go back later and for this you're going to pick the color that you use as your base skin but you're going to make it a little bit more pink a little bit darker and the goal of this stage is going to be to add a little bit of variation of color in the skin and starting from this little inner corner of the eye so i like to go super loosely and again by tilting my pencil i'm able to have something that is a bit less opaque and a bit it's just easier to create gradients so filling in the inner corner of your eye and maybe the outer corner as well just kind of giving it a little tint out there and you're going to maybe very gently be careful otherwise it's going to look like pink eye but you're going to underline the eye including this little thickness of the eyelid with this pinkish color you might also want to add some pink on the top so kind of starting from the fold towards pretty much the outside of your canvas or almost the eyebrow if you're drawing a fallen portrait and maybe you can add a little pink in the inside corner as well so you can see it's very subtle you don't want it to be overwhelming but it does it does make everything feel just more alive especially adding you know this pink in the inner corner and if you're feeling adventurous you can also go with a very light purple and with a super soft brush you can add some purple and kind of the the bottom corner of of the eye if that makes any sense um but you have to be very very light so you can see here i had to do it like four or five times because i want to make sure that it doesn't look like i got punched in the eye or this drawing got punched in the eye you just want to add a bit more variation in your skin which is a bit weird when you're drawing an eye by itself but if you are drawing like a fallen portrait that would definitely be super important and in this next step we're going to add more details around the eye so i like to create a new layer setting it to multiply and lowering the opacity around 60 i also like picking the same base color that i had for my skin and making it just slightly darker and going back with my brush that i used for pretty much everything and this step i mean is a bit of a weird step so you could definitely skip it if you're drawing this eye in the context of a portrait because you would probably have those details drawn already if you're just drawing an eye by itself for some reason you're definitely going to want to add a little bit more context around it otherwise it's going to look really strange at least in my opinion and so that's what we're doing here so i'm gonna go fairly quickly because this is not the point of the tutorial um but if you are drawing an eye well i mean you're probably drawing an eye because you're watching the tutorial but in in your case make sure that you actually take the time to draw everything properly so when i say draw everything properly it means again go and look at references and see where the shadows are look at the folds around the eyes and draw them so it's probably going to be the case of just outlining the eye itself and then reinforcing the creases are created by the eyelid and i like to go twice so starting with a color that is very similar to my base color and then going in with almost a brown color you might also want to add some light so go ahead and create a new layer this one is going to be set to soft light and you're going to go back to your base skin color but this time you're going to make it lighter you might want to make it a little bit more yellow as well to make it just just warm up the entire piece and again i'm going to go very quickly here but you're going to probably want to draw some lights on the top eyelid and on the bottom eyelid as well as kind of in the eye corner skin section and you might want to add some very soft light kind of in the center of the eyeball itself you might want to add some lights in the inner corner of your eye and maybe even draw kind of this down or draw this light down towards kind of the nose almost and you might want to add some lights as well kind of in the space between the eyelid and the eyebrow so you can see again this is super subtle and really quite loose because i don't want to spend too much time drawing the surrounding of the eyes this tutorial is already long enough and you know the skin is not the point here we are however going to create a new layer set it to add and the opacity around 80 this is going to be for the highlights which is really really important and for the highlights i like to go with a super bright blue color because that's going to add just even more dimension and we're going to start by adding the highlight in the eye itself and then we're going to move on to really quickly doing the um the skin so for the highlights in the eye you have to think what is in the environment and you're kind of drawing the reflection of the light source in the eye itself so in my case i'm pretending okay i have a window so i'm drawing like this rectangular shape and with my eraser i'm coming in and erasing maybe a very simple landscape that i would see in the window so i would have you know kind of the grass and then maybe some trees you can see i'm drawing here super loosely again but taking the time to create a world within the light of your eyes super important because the eyes are really really reflective and so it's not going to be just like a bright circle it's actually going to be a reflection of the light source so make sure to keep that in mind and it's going to make a world of difference so yeah just imagine you know what would be around your character and kind of draw that in the light and in the reflection in the eye and it's going to look really really cool we're also going to add a little light kind of really right at the edge of the eyeball and the eyelid because this is usually where you know the liquid that covers the eye accumulates a little bit and the light tends to hit that and it creates some sort of a really bright um highlight so you're gonna mimic that i like to do it in kind of three little strokes and then going in with my eraser to make sure that they're very very subtle you don't want like a full outline in the bottom otherwise it's going to look really strange and you're going to create a second line pretty much in the same area but it is on the outside of the thickness of your eyelid hopefully that makes sense so you're going to have two almost horizontal lines that are going to be kind of stacked on top of each other on the bottom of your eye you can also add a little bit of highlight in the outside corner of your eye this one i find that sometimes it looks really good sometimes it doesn't so experiment and if it doesn't look good in your case just don't do it but what is important to do is to add some highlights in the inner corner of your eye in this little pinkish section and also some highlights on the top of the eyelid i like to make it really streaky to show that the eyelid is not super smooth that it is kind of like this folded skin and yeah something just like that already makes such a big difference and makes the piece feel way more lively you might also want to add some highlights in the inner corner of your eye but on the outside this time so and like on the skin i mean and just like for the details layer i'm not gonna spend a whole lot of time here but if you're drawing you know an eye by itself make sure to pause the video and take your time to add as many highlights as you need to we're also going to add some eyelashes so to do that create a new layer rename it to eyelashes and you're going to pick a very dark brown i don't like to go with full black again because then you're not able to add more shadows and here you have two options you either draw the eyelashes individually with a normal brush or if you have the portrait bundle you can pick one of the eyelash brushes and just making sure you have the right side for your eyes in my case this is a left eye so i'm going with a left brush and always starting from the left corner towards the right corner you can just really quickly swipe your pencil and add a bunch of lashes you can also use the liquify tool in the adjustment panel set it to push and kind of move your eyelashes a little bit to make sure that they are really well aligned with the actual um eyelid and even if you are using the eyelash brush i always like to go back with you know an inking brush or detail textured brush and a darker color not still not black but closer to black and adding some freehand eyelashes to kind of break the pattern that comes with whichever eye eyelash brush that you're going to use is going to create more of a pattern basically so going in by hand and adding some extra eyelashes that way you can create clumps you can create some longer lashes some shorter lashes and really add a little bit of variation but an eyelash brush definitely saves you a lot of time and helps you kind of create a strong base to build on and you can also outline the bottom of the lash line here which is like straight up almost black color to make it you know a bit more dramatic and even though that's not the fun step at least i really don't like it make sure that you take the time with a lighter brown to go and add some bottom lashes i know it's harder for some reason or maybe it's not maybe it's just hard for me but take the time and add some very very tiny lashes and you're going to see it's going to make such a big difference fun little tip if you have the portrait bundle you can create a new layer this one you would rename to glitters or something like that and this way you can add well like glitters on the skin so i like to set this layer to add and then lower the opacity or leave it 100 whatever and with the freckle brush set to a nice cream color just brushing all over my piece mostly on the skin but a little bit on the eye as well and this just adds this like magical feel it's not super realistic but i like it so there you go this was how to draw an eye in procreate i hope you enjoyed this video and if you did make sure to give it a thumbs up because it really does help the channel and you know this was really just a close-up on the inside of the eye itself if you want to learn how to draw the portrait and everything around the eye make sure to check my full portrait video which will be linked in the description below and i will also link the portrait brushes which you know they're not necessary but if you want to check them out they will be linked in description below along with a promo code and before you leave don't forget to subscribe because i put out new videos just like this one every single week i'll see you soon

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Length: 26min 57sec (1617 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 13 2021