Sexy Eye Tutorial

By [Caelicorn]



I have to apologize for the quality of this tute, it is a very old one I have found, and obviously I was too lazy to cut and paste properly so the shapes are inconsistent :) Anyway.

You can make any eye sexy, really, but I quite like this shape with the sculpted brows.

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Lay out the foundations for the skin about the eye in two or three tones. I find the best way for picking blending colours is to use the drop tool at the edge of two colours - where two colours meet...then you can pick up an intermediary colour.

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Large and small smudge brushes to smudge the colours into each other.

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Extra refinement with black/white lines to highlight certain parts of the eye.

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Dodge two highlights with a small white airbrush into the eye. (two or however many/few you want) Soften the blots then lower the opacity of the dodge layer. (Remember that highlights are often a combination of more than one degree of light, so sometimes you might want to dodge an area, then highlight within the highlight)

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Use the smudge brush at a very fine setting to attack the eybrow - smudge down from the skin about the brow line, and up from the brow into the skin, to simulate hairs.

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Random airbrushing set on low density, and smudging with a big brush to get a general shape.

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Smudging with a fine brush to smooth the features over, and dodging a few white lines to show contours around the eye - lowering the opacity of the dodge layer. The eye is really finished somewhere around here, but I feel like continuing to play with it, so I do :)

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Dodging a few highlights on the brows and the eyelashes using tiny white specs that have been attacked with the softening brush.

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Softening the brows to muddle the harshness, and finally smudging (with a fine smudge brush) the highlights within the eye.

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Yay! Randomly dodging a yellow blot in the center of the eye to give it spooky effect. Lining the eye with a darken layer and a black airbrush, erased at the edges to soften it.


If any of that doesn't make sense, feel free to post a question in the comments, here :) I hope that was helpful.

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