Photoshop Tutorial - Creating Appealing Eyes in Photoshop

Appealing eyes can really help bring a piece of art together and in this tutorial, we're explaining some easy and quick techniques to do just this: Creating beautiful eyes. You can use this technique if you want to enhance your 3D renders or if you're painting traditionally - the principles are exactly the same.
The steps are fairly simple:
- Start by having a constant colour, such as blue.
- Add a pupil in the center which is close to black. Bigger pupil = Friendlier, smaller pupil = more hostile
- Paint a darker circle around the iris to frame it better.
- Paint shadow in one area of the iris and light in the other.
- Add a small specular highlight on the cornea to really put some life into it.

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[butterflyeffect]

thanks a lot guys... pretty helpful stuff, only began to notice the glass-eye ish in my renders of late...

[wasfiiwasfi]

Thank you. i just like more using dodge & burn to make the eye's parts darker or lighter... :-)

[robinsquares]

It's gorgeous. But I'd love to see how you would get a similar result in 3D—as you hinted at. For a film I would prefer not to draw 24 pairs of eyes per second.