Black Eye Tutorial

WHAT YOU NEED:

• Make up sponges
• Alcohol based paints OR Eye shadow (Colors Yellow, green, red, blue) - I used alcohol based paints but it can be done with either.

Here is what I used - the Illustrator FX Bruise pallet

STEPS:

1) remove small holes from the make up sponges (as shown below)

2) Take a golden rod yellow (if using eyeshadow) and pad it all around the eye area - mix with a light amount of green in the same area.

3) Now we will add the reds and blues - Look at reference photos on where the most pooling happens and copy the layout on your own pace - Blues for the deepest parts and red on top and around that

• you want to use deep reds and light (almost orange reds) but not vibrant reds - that reminds of blood - that is not what we are doing here

NEXT TIME:
I will likely take down the green - it just doesn't look 100% real with all the green.