Tuesday Tutorial-Colouring Eyes with Copics

You've heard of speaking with your eyes, right?  Today's Tuesday Tutorial from Melyssa is a quick lesson on perfectly Copic colored eyes.  Have fun!

You will need Copics B91,95, 97 and blender pen to make the following blue eye colour.

Practice with the print sheet provided, which you can

download here.

Do not click on this picture and copy. 

It is just to show you what the practice sheet will look like minus the watermark.

Step 1

Add the darkest blue around a third of the eye.

Step 2

Start the midtone B95 on top of the darkest colour, and moving in small circles pull the B95 one fourth around the eye.

Step 3

With your B91 (lightest colour) use small circles to colour the rest of the eye.  Starting where the midtone  (B95) stoped and pulling towards the bottom of the eye. 

Pull the B91(lightest colour) into the midtone and darkest colour.  (this will lighten these area's and give you the half moon look in this photo.

Step 4

(The hardest step.  You can skip this if you like.)

With a steady hand take the midtone (B95) and trace along the bottom of the eye all away around.

Draw an imaginary line (shown in red) between the largest highlight, through the smallest and out past the coloured eye.  This is where you'll use the blender pen to remove colour creating a highlighted area.

Step 5

Run your blender pen along your imaginary line to remove the eye colour to create a highlight.

Or just draw a line with a white Gel Pen or white Prisma Colour Pencil.

I keep a little note book with colour swatches of the Copic combinations I like best.

and one section is focuced on eye colours. Here are a few of my favorite eye colours with the Copic numbers.

B91,  95,  97

BG0000, 01, 05

B12, 14, 37

E13, 15, 57

E31, 35, 37

E97, 99, 47

YG03, 25, 17

G20, 24, 28

YG91, 93, 97

YG91, BG93, BG96

B95, BG72, BG75

T2, BG93, W5, W7

YR12, E15, E37

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