Drawing an Eye in Gimp

by Tim Von Rueden

In this Gimp tutorial we look at how to create an eye using grayscale to build up the values using two of the pre-set brushes and finish it off with some color using overlay layers.

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32 Responses to “Drawing an Eye in Gimp”
  1. D B
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    Thank you so much for this!

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     Oct 7, 2011 at 8:42 pm
  2. jonathan johnson
    Posts: 20

    really nice going to watch all the tutorials on concept cookie love that you guys are doing this keep up the good work :D

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     Oct 7, 2011 at 8:57 pm
  3. oldman44
    Posts: 70

    Thanks Tim,

    Do most of my stuff in PS CS and PSE 9, but am trying to learn Gimp because I bought the Blenderella DVD and Angela does all of her work in Gimp (as do several others). Was able to follower her and duplicate in CS but would be easier if I had a working knowledge of Gimp. Your tutorials will help me with that.

    Thanks,
    OldMan44

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     Oct 7, 2011 at 4:24 pm
  4. thiago kolb
    Posts: 4

    Nice!!!!

    :D

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     Oct 7, 2011 at 4:26 pm
  5. Maux
    Posts: 1

    Great tutorial, with some good tips. Only things that are missing are the little capillary veins in the eye itself.

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     Oct 7, 2011 at 4:58 pm
  6. Matthew Morris
    Posts: 18

    NICE very thorough and goes to a lot of detail in gimp! thank you verymuch!

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     Oct 7, 2011 at 5:36 pm
  7. Jeff Bessette
    Posts: 101

    Good tutorial. I think you used too many layers but that is a personal preference anyway. To get some randomize as well you can click the Apply Jitter check-box and adjust the slider. That will scatter the brush. Try it with the smudge tool for some interesting effects! Some useful shortcuts for painting are:

    O: Color Picker
    P: Paintbrush
    [ ]: Adjust Brush Size

    I also mapped Flip Canvas to the I key which is conveniently right next to those other four buttons. I does the same thing in Mypaint so I am used to that and it was mapped to some tool I never use anyways. Hope that helps!

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     Oct 7, 2011 at 6:45 pm
    • Tim Von Rueden
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      Hey thanks for the tips! The more tricks I figure out in Gimp, the more tutorials in it I can make.

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       Oct 8, 2011 at 3:37 pm
      • Jeff Bessette
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        I’m glad I could help. You use liquify often in your PS tutorials so you might like IWarp. It is under Filters > Distort. I don’t know how much it differs from liquify but it is that same basic concept of being able to push and pull the image around.

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  8. Brent Wall
    Posts: 1

    I am new to Gimp and Blender, so I’ll be keeping an eye out for more instructional videos to further my creative abilities! Thanks to all the great instructors for helping out us n00bies!

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     Oct 7, 2011 at 11:02 pm
  9. Harsimran Singh
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    Hey, are you using a tablet. If you are which one would you suggest I should buy. Anyways, this was GREAT! Thanks for it, I have had gimp for a while but have been scared to meddle with it. You have given me hope… Thanks

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     Oct 8, 2011 at 2:51 am
  10. Andrej piperac
    Posts: 12

    can u speak a litle louder becouse i cant hear you.

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     Oct 8, 2011 at 3:20 am
  11. amine moussaoui
    Posts: 4

    I’m not sure if you know that already but Shift-Clicking on the add layer button will automatically create it using the last used settings !
    I’m wondering if you are using a tablet? because using only my mouse for those kind of things make it looks impossible !

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     Oct 8, 2011 at 6:53 am
    • Tim Von Rueden
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      I am using a tablet, a Wacom Intuos 3! I used to have a Bamboo tablet and really they both worked great!

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  12. anandharaja
    Posts: 1

    Great, more GIMP Tutorials instead of photoshop.

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     Oct 8, 2011 at 8:27 am
  13. Matt
    Posts: 1

    Looks awesome. I’m rather excited about Concept Cookie, and these tutorials seem quite useful.

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     Oct 8, 2011 at 1:54 pm
  14. Calcada
    Posts: 1

    This tutorial was the best! It’s what I’ve been waiting for for a long time!

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     Oct 8, 2011 at 2:38 pm
  15. Jose Daniel Ramirez Amador
    Posts: 3

    Great tutorial!, I’ll wait for another great tutorial. One thing, you can use Gps 1.5 with gimp-painter to make more artistics stuff.

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     Oct 8, 2011 at 3:28 pm
  16. thiago kolb
    Posts: 4

    more GIMP Tutorials [2]

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     Oct 8, 2011 at 3:54 pm
  17. JA12
    Posts: 2

    GIMP tutorials are appreciated. I’d like to mention couple of things though (for others at least).

    MyPaint is made for this kind of work and GIMP Paint Studio might also be worth checking out.

    Development version (2.7.3) of GIMP adds single window mode option, layer grouping and image tabs if you must have those. Not production ready! If you use it, save often. I’ve had 1 crash so far, not that big of a deal but still.

    Also, GIMP is a different beast to work with if you maximize the image-window and show/hide the docks with tab-key. That works in both window modes if you have the dev version of GIMP.

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     Oct 8, 2011 at 4:48 pm
  18. Katherine
    Posts: 1

    I love this tutorial and have sent the link to many of my friends in the industry. I love the use of your tablet – very useful.

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     Oct 8, 2011 at 11:11 pm
  19. Ron Boygott
    Posts: 10

    I liked your tutorial, I only have been using Gimp for textures,now I want to learn more about illustrating. Thanks for your information.

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     Oct 9, 2011 at 2:54 am
  20. Mohammed
    Posts: 1

    Thanks you so much Tim :)
    -I have question about gimp It doesn’t run well on my mac is it because I didn’t install gtk+
    sorry for my english still learning….:)

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     Oct 9, 2011 at 3:35 am
  21. Sandra Gilbert
    Posts: 23

    That was cool and you made it look so easy! Too fun to watch the eye appear layer by layer.

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     Oct 9, 2011 at 10:44 pm
  22. Benjamin Waller
    Posts: 3

    wow, you rock. makes me wish, i could draw like that.

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     Oct 10, 2011 at 6:31 pm
  23. Ezequiel Galán de Lucca
    Posts: 5

    fascinating. My congratulations and thank you very much for helping to teach. I am learning to use such software much as entertaining …
    my eye: http://gimpws.blogspot.com/2011/11/creacion-de-un-ojo.html

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     Nov 24, 2011 at 5:11 am
  24. tomorou
    Posts: 1

    Hello, I’m new to GIMP and really appreciated for the GIMP tutorials!
    I’ve been following this tutorial and using the same settings.
    Otherwise I can’t get the same softer brush effect as in this video.
    Is this because you are using pen tablet?
    Is it impossible to draw like that(not changing opacity and brush size) using mouse? Sorry for the newbie question.

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     Jan 3, 2012 at 6:16 pm
  25. Tomislav Jovanoski
    Posts: 1

    One question > Is there an option to rotate the canvas in GIMP? (Like in MyPaint for example).. I would appreciate it, since that way, you can draw naturally, like you would rotate the paper if you draw on it.

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     Feb 14, 2012 at 9:11 pm
  26. the_rotton_core
    Posts: 10

    thank you this has drastically imporved my general workflow and final compositions.

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     Nov 13, 2012 at 1:09 pm
  27. Egor Artemov
    Posts: 7

    Awesome tutorial! Thank you Tim!

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     Jan 11, 2013 at 7:56 pm

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