A Work in Progress: Eyecon

This guide was made for entry:
Eyecon
In Contest:
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Create the black background.
Create a red circular shape.
Create a smaller of the red one on the top layer (40% size of the first one) with black color.

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Make the light on the background by gradient tool (white gradient), then divide the background by marquee tool, the lower halve is reduced in brightness, then distort the shape.
Use the inner shadow blending option for the large circle.
Draw the shape of the eyelash by pen tool

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Rasterize the large circle, make more shadow on the top. Make the white reflection by pen tool on the upper layer

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Draw the shape like in the photo on the top layer

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Use the action tool, duplicate the drawn layer, choose the center of the eye as the center of the layer, then rotate 10 degree. Repeat until the eye is fulled

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Merge all of the repeated layers, choose the overlay blending mode

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Create some white stroke (radial direction) by pen, then stroke by stimulated brush.

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Duplicated the layer of repeated shapes, Gaussian blur, then use the smudge tool with high strength (80-90%) and various brush sizes, draw from the center to the outside (radial direction)

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Use the same method but change the color (hue/saturation setting) and make the smaller size of the "ring", use smudge tool with small size (1-2) to make the radial stroke near the center of the eye

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Use smudge tool, draw by the inverse direction on the first layer (the one used action tool)

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Use the scatter brush with various size (white) to make the scattered stroke (radial direction) to glow some spots on the eye.

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make the bottom of the eye glowing by making the shape with pen tool, then fill with white color

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Use eraser to erase the newly created shape from the center of the eye to the outside (gradually)

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Use white brush to draw some reflection on the top layer

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Use pen tool to draw the white part of the eye (I don't know how to call) and the shape of the eyelash

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Use burn tool to make the shadow and pen (stroked by stimulate brush tool) to draw the hair

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Use the eraser to erase the hair in the eye, just keep the part on the eyelash

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Play with burn and dodge tools

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Add the word "My porfolio": make the path with similar shape as the eye, then select Text tool, put the word on the path, they will run along with the path

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Distort the text path a bit to make the words standing on the eye. Make the teardrop by brush tool

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Close up...

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The upper part of the background was made by different cloud filter (4 times), then blend with the bottom layer by soft light blending option. Duplicate the background layer sometimes, then merge all layers, use dodge tool to make the area that the eye standing on brighter. Make the reflection of the "eyecon" by duplicate the eyecon layer, flip, then erase gradually from the bottom.