Chapter 14: Painting an Eye

This chapter covers one of the basic skills needed when you are painting characters : painting a realistic eye. Painting the features of a face is not as hard as it sometimes seems. In this chapter, you will learn a simple way to paint a human eye. This method, as with most of the demonstrations in this book, is applicable to just about any type of eye that you may need to paint.

What You Need to Know About Photoshop for This Chapter

This tutorial assumes that you know some fundamentals of working in Photoshop, such as:

• Where individual palettes are located. In this specific tutorial, we will not be changing very many of Photoshop's defaults.

• How to adjust a brush's opacity.

• How to resize your brush and sample color from within the image (using hot keys).

You can arrange Photoshop's workspace to suit your own liking, so this chapter does not discuss where to locate specific items.

Once again, always remember when you are painting on the computer to save your files. Make it a habit to save numerically named versions of your work. One of the best things about digital painting is this ability to save multiple versions that you can revert to if you make a major mistake.