This is an eye ONLY tutorial; I am not good enough at the other facial parts to write a tutorial on them; but a few thought my eye techniques were nice enough to request I write it up. I suggest making this over an exsisting blank face; I'll link to a nice face tutorial if you need one to make a face.

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Supplies

You'll need the following supplies to complete this tutorial:

• PSP 6 or 7, click here to download a trial version. This tutorial was written based on version 7.

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Sclera

1. The intial shape will require vector editing; set your stroke as null and your fill as white, and select Shapes tool with these settings:

• Shape: elipse
• Retain style: UNchecked
• Antialias: Checked
• Create as vector: Checked
• Line width: won't matter since stroke is null
• Line style: same as above

Draw an oblong elipse:

2. Select Object Selector tool (next to Shapes tool) and click Node Edit from the Tool Options box (or right-click on the image and choose Node Edit from the bottom of the right-click menu).

3. Click on the right node to select it; pull the node upwards till it's almost even with the top line of your elipse. Drag both the right node's upper arm to sit on top of the line; repeat with the other arm, moving it till it's over the lower line. Pull either arm or both arm in towards the main node (or pull it away) as needed to keep a nice smooth shape.

4. If you click back and forth from tutorial to PSP, you'll probably have to go into vector edit node again *S*. Click on the left node to select it; pull it downwards just a tad, then repeat the pulling the arms over the lines thing again. Edit the arms by pulling them inwards or outwards as necessary to get a pretty smooth shape.

(your nodes won't all be highlighted like this screenshot)

5. Once you have a pretty shape, convert your vector layer to a raster layer (I do it by right-clicking on the vector layer in the Layer Palette, and clicking on Convert to Raster). Gaussian Blur: 1;

Eyelid

6. Selection tool with these settings:

• Selection type: Elipse
• Feather: 1
• Antialias: Checked

Starting at the bottom of the eye white, right of the center, draw your elipse selection UPwards. I had to do this many times, and I suspect you will too. I tried a different technique that was much easier, but the eyelid turned out a very weird shape, so I had to revert back to the harder way.

Now read *Very Carefully*; it's very tricky:

• Invert your selection.
• Click ON the upper eye area with your selection tool (the part that now appears above the main portion of the eye).
• Expand your selection by 1; add a new layer.
• Flood Fill with your skin tone.

Whew - told you that was a bit tricky, kudos to the ones that get it right the first time LOL (I had to do this over and over till I got it down).

7. Lock your new top layer; it should be the eyelid layer.

8. Change your foreground color to black or dark brown, select your Paintbrush tool with these settings:

• Shape: round
• Size: half as big as your eye
• Hardness: 50
• Opacity: 100
• Step: whatever
• Density: 100

If you haven't set your cursors to show brush outlines yet; do so now (I always have mine showing). Click on the 2nd tab in the Tool Option box, and check Show Brush Outlines. Drag your paintbrush under your eyelid, gently glide back and forth, scooching your paintbrush upwards just enough to color the lid as with eyeliner. You might have to do this a few times to get the feel for it. You may choose to add more to the outter portion of the eye for a heavier made up look *S*

9. Cutout with these settings:

• V&H: 0
• Opacity: your choice
• Blur: your choice (choose a low number like around 6; but it depends on how large you made your eyelid).
• Color: a nice brown that coordinates with your skin color

See how locking the trasnparency of the layer prevented the typical Cutout white glow? Wooo!

10. Unlock your transparency again; drop shadows won't work with locked transparency. Add a drop shadow with these settings:

• Vertical: -2 (negative)
• Horizontal: 0
• Color: Brown
• Blur: 15-30 depending on your eye size and taste
• Opacity: set this to your taste, I put this out of order since I had to redo everything so many times; setting this last will help having to reset everything so often.

Again, your version will not have the pupil or the shadow on the bottom of the white (I redid this tutorial a lot lol).

Note: there will be a shadow under the eyelid; this is fine since many portrait books advise to shade in under the eyelids for a realistic look.

Note 2: Due to the shadow going under the top of the eye, choosing an eye-shadow color will not work (I tried LOL).

11. Now you can add the bottom shadow *S* Click on the layer under your eyelid layer (the eye white); Ctrl+A - Ctrl+F Expand selection by 1, Invert Selection, and add a drop shadow with these settings:

• Vertical: -2 (negative)
• Horizontal: 0
• Color: brown
• Opacity: 40(ish)
• Blur: 7

(these settings may change slightly, depending on your eyesize and taste.) Deselect. Run your Retouch/Soften tool along the bottom shadow (you may also soften your eyeliner area too). I used these settings:

• Shape: Round
• Size: 8
• Hardness: 0
• Opacity: 51
• Step: 18
• Density: 52

Iris & Pupil

12. Lock your eyewhite layer again; pick your eye color, and select Paintbrush with these settings:

• Shape: round
• Size: big enough to go over the tops and bottom of the eye a little
• Hardness: 70
• Opacity: 100
• Step: whatever
• Density: 100

Click once (or more as needed) inside your eye selection. Use Magic Wand tool with these settings:

• Match mode: RGB Value
• Tolerance 20
• Feather: 0
• Sample Merged: UNchecked

Pick a contrasting eye color; I used brown. Spray in some contrast inside the selection, using these settings:

• Shape: round
• Size: big enough to cover your selection
• Hardness: 0
• Opacity: 40
• Step: whatever
• Density: 40

Click once or twice to get some dots; Gaussian blur: 1; Deselect. Set foreground color to black, use the same Paintbrush settings, but reduce the size and click once to make your pupil. Same screen as before, but now you're caught up with me *S*

• Type: Bezier Curve
• Width: 1
• Line style: normal line
• Antialias: checked
• Create as vector: UNchecked
• Close path: UNchecked

Eyelashes

Foreground color should still be black from painting your pupil; if not, change it. Add a new layer; draw a line from the outer corner of the eye, upwards at approximately a 45% angle. Draw it LONG!

Bring your cursor to the middle area of your lash, under it about 10 pixels and click twice.

Reduce your eyelash to 40-50%, making sure Resize All Layers is UNchecked. Move into place at the outer corner of the eyelid.

Ctrl+C - Ctrl+E to keep repasting this eyelash along the lash line. After your last lash, deslect. I only went about 1/3 of the way in, and repeated with a new lashline; I drew my bezier line more upwards and shorter too. Place each new lash series on its own layer so the other lashes won't get reduced.

Optional: I got tired of putting in all those lashes, so I spaced them far apart, duplicated my layer, clicked on deform tool, and Shift+Left arrowed a few times (arrow keys are in between main keyboard and numeric keyboard). Each Shift+Arrow click moves your selection exactly one pixel. This trick works with the Shape deform too.

My tutorial screenshots didn't turn out as good as my original submission did *S* See how they turn out differently each time?

Feel free to make some bottom lashes, only make them smaller of course *S* We won't be covering eyebrows with this tutorial; mine aren't that good *giggle* Here's some links to other face painting tutorials for you to be able to finish the rest of the face, and also learn others' techniques.

• Carla has a very lovely face painting tutorial, and she shows us how to paint hair (boy do I need practice on that!)
• Sue's tutorial shows her face in a different angle, and also covers face shading and hair too (using EC4 Fur). Sue also offers some nice eye tiles to fill your iris.

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