Realistic Leopard Eye Study

I completed a nice little Step-by-Step Leopard Eye tutorial to help out one of my students. They were struggling with the eye and thought it would be good to share my process on how I completed the realistic appearance of not only the eye, but the fur as well.

You can get the reference and line drawing FREE from my Tutorials Assets Page.

Also here are the supplies I used to complete this study as well as the time stamps to the different subject covered in the video.

EYE: 1:07

BACKGROUND: 59:14

BLOCKING IN FUR (UNDERLAYERS): 36:06

FUR: 1:23.32

REFINING: 2:36:44

Supplies that I used are:

Paper: Pastelmat – Maize

Colored Pencils:

Luminance – 001 White, 009 Black, 039 Olive Brown, 093 Violet Grey, 095 Light Aubergine, 407 Sepia, 508 Payne’s Grey, 548 Raw Umber, 630 Ultramarine Violet, 732 Olive brown 10%, 736 Olive Brown 50%, 803 French Grey 30%, 832 Brown Ochre 10%, 836 Brown Ochre 50%, 842 Raw Umber 10%, 846 Raw Umber 50%, 862 Burnt Sienna 10%, 872 Burnt Ochre 10%, (unused/slightly used colors, but could incorporate 504 Payne’s Grey 30%, 507 Payne’s Grey 60%, 661 Light Cobalt Blue, 662 Genuine Cobalt Blue)

Polychromos – 172 Earth Green, 175 Dark Sepia, 176 Van Dyck Brown, 177 Walnut Brown, 179 Bister, 181 Payne’s Grey, 232 Cold Grey III, 270 Warm Grey I, 271 Warm Grey II, 274 Warm Grey V, 275 Warm Grey VI

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