Eye - Xara

I did this for the Challenge forum to create an eye, but since I used only Xara Extreme to draw this I thought I'd post it also to this forum.
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Looks credible to me. A small highlight over the iris/pupil would give it a final bit of photorealism.

Thanks Gary! :) Okay here's the updated one...

Both nice but I do not see the difference.

Very nice work, good detail. Simple highlight makes a vast difference.

Incredible Maya! Can you share how you did the iris?

Great job Maya. That looks super good.=D>

Thanks so much for giving this a look and reply/views everyone! :)


I think I like the eye with the extra subtle highlight at the pupil best, as suggested by Gary to try. It's a tiny change, but looks to me to bring a bit more of a 3D effect to the roundness of the eye at the cornea surface.

Ron, the way I approached doing the iris coloring was to start with a circle feathered to soften the outside edge in a grayed greenish-blue then overlayed this with a lighter cloned circle in a more yellowish green and made smaller around the pupil area. I used feathering and transparency colors a lot to get the basic iris then drew a rather random sawtooth small square shape in the lighter and darker colors which I added flat transparencies and color changes to along with adjustments in rotation and size/shaping to create the striations in the iris around it. I took the pupil and cloned it transparent just to get the line ring and color it for a bit of depth to the pupil. The other highlight shapes are just flat transparencies with more crisp edges for shine effect and overlaying eyelashes for more reflectance. I think that about covers what I did. A few other greyed shadings/shadows around on the white of the eye were extended into the colored edges also. I hope that helps. :)

Maya this eye is something amazing in vector, like it very much. So clean, deep, it is beautiful.

+1 for putting to Xara Outsider

Absolutely beautiful. =D>

csehz -- Thank you so much for the kind words, I'm happy that you liked this Xara eye!Rik -- Thanks so much too! I like to show that Xara/vectors can achieve whatever style/look the artist wants. Vectors have advantages over raster and part of that is the ability to achieve a clear image that can almost look more real than real at times. Whatever it is you want to do Xara can do it.

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Originally Posted by Crow Haven

to achieve a clear image that can almost look more real than real at times.

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Exactly that is the impression watching into that eye.

Also congratulations for your eyes, which are able to translate the reality to vector in such a way

csehz -- Thank you for such encouraging words! :)

A wonderful representation of the eye, Maya.

Thanks so much, Gray!

Very eye-catching.

To be expected from you.

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Thanks, Gare! :)