An Expressive Shining Eye Tutorial

The tutorial will be in two parts, in the first part i will explain how to create the eye drawing and then creating the pupil. We will start by drawing out an eye in outline using the pen tool. Since i will be more concentrating on other tools rather than pen tool i am beginning by understanding that you have basic knowledge of pen tool.

So in step one we will draw some basic out line of the eye, this is our drawing that we will be following throughout the tutorial.

Next we will create a bunch of hair growth using the pencil tool. This is freehand drawing of a few lines and then smooth them out using the smooth tool this is the result.

Which we will save as a symbol.

Create and copy an oval shape as seen below.

Fill it up with a dark shade.

We will use the crystalize tool in order to distort the pupil shape. This tool is found as seen above in your tool palette. Double click it to open up the dialog box. And adjust options as seen which might vary depending on your drawing size. So try to follow the preview of the result.

Here is what i got after crystalizing my slightly oval shape, don't forget to keep a copy of the original shape.

Resize it as seen here.

Select the big circle of the pupil make a copy of it and follow the crystallizing options for the same as well.

Here is what i got.

Arrange your shapes.

Place the Crystallized pupil over the original one. This is for the bigger one.

and similarly for the second ones. Here is a palette of colors that i am using to create the shades of the pupil you can click on these boxes to pick out the color values if you like. Shade the appropriate shapes accordingly. The darkest shade goes inside the eye.

Create a copy of the darkest shade the smallest circle and apply gradients as seen.

Place the original circle on top of it. Apply a dark gradient to it.

Now we will work on the white area of the eye and below you will see the shades i will be using as the reference.