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Let's now talk about the fun part,

coloring eyes and hair.

So for coloring eyes, there are

countless ways to color them, and each

artist has their own style, so it's

totally up to you how you want to color them.

But I would say, try to keep it as

simple as possible, and have

predetermined steps to color them.

I'll show you the way I color the eyes

in my comic, and you might want to

apply the same thing, or you might take

it as an inspiration to come up with

your own style.

So I chose this eye panel to explain it

for you in a clear way.

What I'll first do is I'll lock the

layer through the locked transparent

pixels and I'll choose a darker color

than the eye's base color and I'll

color the upper part of the eye in a

curvy way to indicate the roundness of

the eye.

By the way for this step I'm still

using the crisp webtoon pen.

So in webtoons to save time you can

leave the eyes as is and only finalize

it by creating a new layer on top of

the line art layer and with a white

color, just draw the light reflection

on the eye.

You could have one or two.

I usually go for one big one and one

kind of oval shaped one.

But for me I like to give my

character's eyes a little more depth so

I choose another darker color.

I'll hide the light reflections for a

bit to show you.

So with the darker color I shade the

top part of the eye and then draw a

pupil and then with a small brush size

I just do these kinds of scratches to

kind of define the shaded part of the

eye with the unshaded part of the eye

and I take the same color that I used

in the first part and with a finer

brush I add those strokes to give the

eye more details and finally I add

highlights at the bottom of the eye.

So these are my steps for coloring the

base color of the eye.

You can also go a little bit further

and add light reflection for example by

using a pink color with the airbrush.

So I'll go to the airbrush tool and

I'll choose the soft airbrush and then

I can just brush a little bit on the

top with a pink color or a blue color

but that's an step if you want to make

the eyes more shiny.

Anyway I'll enable the light reflection

layer again.

Now I'll color the line art a little

bit to make the eye look more interesting.

So I'll go to the line art layer and

lock it and what I'll do is I'll pick

the color of this base eye color.

I quickly choose colors by hitting the

Alt button and then clicking on the color.

So now I chose it again with the soft

airbrush I'll lightly airbrush this

bottom side of the eye to make it look

softer and the top side as well I'll

choose the dark color and airbrush it

to make everything blend in and I also

use a kind of a vibrant pinkish red

color and with the airbrush I airbrush

the sides of the eyes.

I find that this makes them look more

interesting Finally, under the eye,

I'll create a layer for the eye whites

which we did in the last lesson but

let's do it again for this panel.

And the last step I'll do for the eyes

is I'll lock this eye whites layer and

choose a grayish blue color and then

with the crisp pen tool I'll just shade

the eye from the top.

So I did that with a crisp webtoon pen

but sometimes I also do it with an

airbrush But I modified the settings of

the airbrush a little bit, so I set the

hardness to somewhere around here or

here to make it harder, and then

airbrush to give the eye a softer look.

And that's it for coloring the eyes.

But in this panel specifically, and

most of the panels in my current

chapter, the characters are having

strong emotional reactions, so when

they have such a strong reaction I

don't color the eyes as I do here but

rather I just leave the eyes with the

pupil only and maybe a slight gradient

on the base colors of the eye.

That gives the characters a shocked

look and it makes the scene feel more intense.

So this is why in my panel over here

the eyes are also small because the

character is shocked so what I'm gonna

do for his eyes is I'll just add a

shades and I can also use the lighter

shade and with an airbrush bringing its

settings back to soft I'll just lightly

airbrush at the top of the eyes to give

it a softer look.

I'll also shade the eyes with the same

bluish gray color.

Now let's move on to the hair.

At this step I don't really shade most

of my characters features because I'll

do that in the next step which I'll

show you in the next lesson but in this

step I just to prepare all those base

so that they look more interesting when

I add the shades later to them.

What I mean by prepare is lightly

airbrushing the character to make the

flat colors look less flat and add some

sort of a gradient to them.

So what I'll do is, I'll select the

airbrush tool and set it to the softest

hardness and increase its size.

And I'll choose the color of the shades

of my characters here and while locking

the layer, I'll lightly airbrush the

bottom sides of my character's hair to

give it a gradient look.

And on the top side I'll choose the

highlight color and lightly airbrush.

So as you can see the hair now has more dimension.

For dark haired character I go one

extra step and choose an orangish or

pinkish color, a light color that is a

little bit darker than the skin and I

airbrush the hair that's on top of the face.

This gives the hair a look like it's

fading and is showing the skin beneath it.

I can do an extra step and also use the

shading color of the hair and just

color the hair that is at the back to

push it backwards and give it more depth.

So now with this simple step this

darker hair feels like it is on the

back and this brighter one feels like

it is on the front.

And now I'll also go for the skin and

lock the layer choose the skin shading

color and also with the airbrush I'll

lightly airbrush the edges of the face.

To avoid this kind of airbrushing like

when it's overlapping through the edges

I can just use the auto select or magic

wand tool and select the portion that I

want while making sure that my line art

layer is set as a reference layer and

now I can airbrush without messing with

the face.

I also airbrush a little bit around the

nose and a bit around the cheeks sometimes.

And airbrush the rest of the skin.

I can also airbrush all the other

clothing items.

Sometimes I do that and sometimes I

skip it.

But let's do that for this scene.

For both shirts I'll airbrush for the

pants as well.

I'm gonna airbrush lightly.

So that's all for this step.

We next lesson we'll do all of the

characters shading in one single step.