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How to Paint a Realistic Eye

Lena Danya
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Lena Danya demonstrates her method for painting a realistic eye. YES I KNOW I MESSED UP THE ANATOMICAL TERMS OF THE EYE AND KEPT CALLING THE SCLERA THE CORNEA. DISREGARD THAT THANK YOU 30 minute bonus videos: http://lenadanya.com Art Store: http://lenadanyastore.com twitter:   / lenadanya   facebook:   / lenadanyapage   instagram:   / lenadanya   tumblr:   / lenadanya   Music: Amarante - Little heart (instrumental)   / amarantemusic   http://amarantemusic.com    / amarantemusic   ...more
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suggest watching my basics of oil painting

0:04

start by diluting raw umber with a bunch of gamsol

1:27

adding my galkin mixture to those colors

2:08

using titanium white with some yellow ochre

2:24

bringing some burnt sienna for the mid-tone

2:30

paint the cornea the whites of the eyes

3:33

add sap green and cerulean

4:15

create the deeper fold in the eyelid

4:45

begin gradually filling in the iris with the colors

5:47

dabbed it over with a dry brush

7:54

added the light reflection on the iris

9:02

added very subtle eyelash reflections in that light

9:08

made the lashes a bit lighter on the ends underneath

10:47

gives it the illusion of thickness to the lid

10:58
How to Paint a Realistic Eye
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2016Mar 28
Lena Danya demonstrates her method for painting a realistic eye. YES I KNOW I MESSED UP THE ANATOMICAL TERMS OF THE EYE AND KEPT CALLING THE SCLERA THE CORNEA. DISREGARD THAT THANK YOU 30 minute bonus videos: http://lenadanya.com Art Store: http://lenadanyastore.com twitter:   / lenadanya   facebook:   / lenadanyapage   instagram:   / lenadanya   tumblr:   / lenadanya   Music: Amarante - Little heart (instrumental)   / amarantemusic   http://amarantemusic.com    / amarantemusic  

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Lena Danya

868K subscribers