Eye Study Tutorial - Watercolour - intermediate (Patreon)

Hi everyone,

I hope you are well.

Here is the eye study tutorial. As you know I'm trying to teach myself how to paint the human figure in watercolour so I thought it would be a good idea to practice painting different body parts like the eye, nose, mouth, ear, hands etc. This is a detailed look at the eye and I know that if I was painting a portrait, the eye wouldn't be as large as it is here and I wouldn't need  the same amount of detail that I have here. Nevertheless I thought it was a good idea to have a look at it more closely. I will try to do some smaller studies and paint the eye from different angles and also paint different skin colours.

What I learned from this study is that it's important to pay attention to the edges - are they soft and lost or are they hard and sharp? I think next time I paint an eye I'll add more soft edges. Looking at it, I feel I need to soften the edges of the top and bottom lids more as they move away from the centre point of the eye. I'll try that next time. 

I'm excited to try painting more people. I painted the little toddler on the beach and while I was fairly happy with the painting I feel I overworked the hair again. It's not easy painting humans but it's lots of fun trying.

I hope you enjoy painting/watching this little study. All of the files you need are attached below. If you need me to enlarge the eye drawing over two pages let me know.

I downloaded the reference photo from Pixabay. It was taken by Sofie Zborilova. 

Here is the link: https://pixabay.com/photos/eye-iris-macro-natural-girl-2340806/  

I tweaked the colour in Photoshop before I painted it because I think the photo must have been digitally enhanced and I wasn't keen on the yellow in the iris. The link for the photo is also on the Supplies List.

Here is the post that I did where I've listed all the colours that are on my skin tone palette: https://www.patreon.com/posts/38074737

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Tutorial Index Links:

My website image index: http://www.louisedemasi.com/new-index

Patreon word index: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34865676

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What I'm working on

I'm currently working on the Budgerigar tutorial. After that I'll start on the Fuchsia tutorial.

Over the coming weeks I also have a Robin, the blue Succulent, the Bee Eater, the Barn Owl, the Lion (below) and this snake (below) to get done.....maybe the little toddler painting too if I feel it's worthy.

Louise

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