We already have a neat looking base car from our last Photoshop tutorial. We added some texture and some lighting to add more life to our project. Now we want to start concentrating on the smaller details, such as the eyes and the application of decals to our car.
Like anything in Photoshop, there are lots of ways to create eyeballs. But we want to use something more 'fun' and stay away from realistic - human looking peepers - so we'll create them somewhat 'cartoony'.
- First step is to create a new Photoshop file. Using a new window will make it much easier, as you won't have to work on your existing layers. Create a new file, 50X50 pixels on a transparent background.
- I based my eyes on a cartoon eyes tutorial. You can get a little crazy here if you want - as it's very basic and leaves alot of room for adjustment. Use the elliptical tool (press M in Windows) to draw a circular shape. It doesn't have to be perfectly round, but if you want it to be - just press Shift while creating it. Then fill that circle with white, and apply the outter and inner glow settings I have below. The color I used was 1D1D19 :
- We will continue to make our other layers in the same fashion, making each ellipse smaller to fit into one another, using whatever colors you feel best using (Obvious black will be best for viewing the pupil). The last layer is built by using the elliptical tool to make a small ellipse and filling it white. Here is what our different layers look like so far (depending on the colors you've choosen) :
- Layer 2 above is the only other layer with any applied styles. It also gets an inner glow. It gets the same settings as the white outside layer. You can read the settings in the inner glow snapshot above.
- Now all you need to do is merge all of your layers, and you have an eyeball for your Photoshop car alteration!
