Phil Parsons

Creating a zombie in Photoshop – evil eyes effect

I should be studying for an exam tomorrow so I’ll make this a quick one, our zombie girl still looks a little too alive so we need to work on the face a little more.

Step 1:

Open up your zombie file from the other tutorials and go ahead and add a new layer above the background copy of the girl. Zoom in on her eyes and with a soft brush paint in the whites of her eyes with black. Reduce the opacity of the layer to show a little detail of the eyes, I set mine to 80%.

Step 2:

Next select the iris of the eyes, using the elliptical marque tool with about 2px of feather is groovy, and fill them with white on a new layer above the darkened whites we just made. Set the layers blend mode to soft light and you should have a nice evil looking stare going on.

Step 3:

To further enhance our new evil looking eyes select the whole eye area in quickmask or whatever and add in a new hue/saturation adjustment layer above our two new eye layers. Play with the settings until you have a nice effect where the eyes look filled with blood. You may have noticed that I have added some blood to the eyes also which was just done with some splatter brushes I downloaded and the brush tool much like we did in the last tutorial with the cheek scar. Check the links on the sidebar for some cool brush free downloads.

Step 4:

If you want you can leave the image there until the next tutorial when I’ll have time to better explain things or you can add a little hard light shading to the eyes set on its own layer.

Well we are starting to look much more zombie like now but we have a long way to go yet, don’t forget to subscribe to these tutorials so you don’t miss out!

Posted on October 5th, 2008 under Photoshop tips. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.