Eye tutorial

Another tutorial that I found immensely helpful was this eye tutorial by Acidlullaby over on Deviantart.

In my own opinion, you can tell when a tutorial is brilliant when it is self explanatory, and doesn't need to be annotated.
Although I absolutely love to paint eyes, making them appear to have form and to not look flat has always been difficult for me to achieve. From following this tutorial, I really feel like it has helped me to understand how to effectivly paint anything that vaguely stands out, such as lips.
With my main painting for my latest university project, I combined the advice from this tutorial with the grain tutorial that I linked in my last post, and I really feel that I have learnt the most from them. This, usually for me is quite strange, as I usually don't learn very well from tutorials, prefering instead to learn by my own mistakes. But these have really helped me complete this painting much quicker than I usually do as well as having learning loads, and I'm therefore hugely grateful to the artists who posted these tutorials.