eyepg2

Now we can actually move on the point of this tutorial.. EYES! Perfecting the eye is important because even in a real picture, i think that they are a very attractive feature and usually are one of the things that draw my attention first. What i usually do with the eyes it start by making big white spots.. kind of like the images below. (the one to the left is just to show you how i outline the actual eye)

When your working w/ the white of the eye.. sometimes it shouldn't always be white. maybe an off white, or in this case (which i didn't do) a light light light light blue.

Now your going to want to outline the eye, usually i just use black.. but in this case i'll use dark blue for the upper lid (eyelashes-ish). I also throw in a little dark line on the lower lid to really define the eye. So you should get something along the lines of ....

Don't worry about the white that is over
the edge, you can easily fix that when
your touching up the odds and ends
of your vector.

After this, i add the ball in the middle w/ the colors. (forgive me that i didn't listen while i was learning the parts of the eye in school) I usually choose the darkest color to make the full circle and fill it in accordingly to the lighter colors on the inside. I ALWAYS make sure i have the little reflective balls of light in there, since those add realism to your vector. So in this images case, most of the eye is very dark, the lower part of it is a medium shade of grey and then of course the white reflection. If you've only used those 3 colors as i have.. you should end up with.... (left below) but now your probably

thinking that that looks really boring.. so all you need to do is.. with your Eyedropper tool, pick out little colors you find here and and there and just add little triangles or whichever shape you perfer into the eye to give it more detail.

So (below) already there is quite a big of detail and it was really simple. Now that we've got the majority done. Lets fix the outline a bit...