“Iridescent” – Eye Illustration
Here’s my latest creation. I used this as my reference. It’s drawn on a sheet of A5 paper using Derwent Studio Color Pencils. Sadly I did not have that many colors (only 24 to be specific), so I figure I could have made the image better and more vibrant if I had had more hues of each color to pick from. The image itself took somewhere around 2 to 3 hours. The process was first rough sketching to get all the proportions right, then erasing and defining the lines that I wanted. Next I started coloring and whenever I reached some of the linework I erased it out so I could have the color define the shapes instead. I started the coloring with iris of the eye, which was the part that took the longest and was by far the most complex part of the image. And then I just kept moving outwards from the center iris and ending with doing the eyelashes.