How do you paint eyes?
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Temperance
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My best eyes are #4307 (Ogre) and #3460 (Crappy Barbarian) In both cases the eyes are on the larger side, so I was able to have a bit more fun. They\'re painted before most of the highlighting for the face; perhaps after a quick drybrush. I paint the whole eye white, followed by a colored dot (Blue for the Ogre, green for the Barbarian) and finish with a small black pupil. I also use a small vallejo brush and magnifying glasses to do it...
DragonPaint
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I usually paint the eyes as first thing in a miniature (in this way I can see if the miniature is happy for the paint scheme.. you know.. eyes are the soul of a miniature ;o)
I paint an horizontal white line trying to stay in the eye sockets, then trim with black all the errors and next paint a vertical line in the middle of the eye (or near one side if I want to archieve a different look).
Then I start painting the skin and trim the eye leavig a very small black line under the eye.
Using the ASCII characters...
_____
_____ paint a white line
___
<___> trim the eye with black
___
<_|_ > paint a vertical black line
Paolo
I paint an horizontal white line trying to stay in the eye sockets, then trim with black all the errors and next paint a vertical line in the middle of the eye (or near one side if I want to archieve a different look).
Then I start painting the skin and trim the eye leavig a very small black line under the eye.
Using the ASCII characters...
_____
_____ paint a white line
___
<___> trim the eye with black
___
<_|_ > paint a vertical black line
Paolo
Painting Eyes... a reply
Well... here\'s how I paint the eyes on my figs (the ones without helmets that is, lol)
Firstly, I almost always use a white primer on models with large areas of flesh, or models with bare heads, as it\'s easier to get a good effect for the fleshy tones... and to give the model more depth (IMHO). Then, with a watered down black, I paint \'racoon eyes\' on the face. This dries, then go in with your white, and paint the eyeball part completely, leaving a thin (very thin) line of black around the edge of the eye. After this is dry, go back in with the black, or a dark blue, or suitable color for the model\'s pupil, and paint a small dot. It\'s best to leave the dot not quite touching the bottom of the eyeball (so in other words, don\'t paint a \'stripe\' down the center of the eyeball. Some people will say this makes you models look like they are staring or whatever, but it works best for me. After all, any method someone will give you for painting facial details will make the model look like its staring, because, well, it is. minis are basically small statues, right?
Maybe down the road I\'ll run a stage-by-stage on this, so the effect can be better demonstrated (most likely this will happen once I get around to actually posting a few pics on the site, anyhow... I\'m lazy, lol).
Praise be the Emperor,
Badaab
Well... here\'s how I paint the eyes on my figs (the ones without helmets that is, lol)
Firstly, I almost always use a white primer on models with large areas of flesh, or models with bare heads, as it\'s easier to get a good effect for the fleshy tones... and to give the model more depth (IMHO). Then, with a watered down black, I paint \'racoon eyes\' on the face. This dries, then go in with your white, and paint the eyeball part completely, leaving a thin (very thin) line of black around the edge of the eye. After this is dry, go back in with the black, or a dark blue, or suitable color for the model\'s pupil, and paint a small dot. It\'s best to leave the dot not quite touching the bottom of the eyeball (so in other words, don\'t paint a \'stripe\' down the center of the eyeball. Some people will say this makes you models look like they are staring or whatever, but it works best for me. After all, any method someone will give you for painting facial details will make the model look like its staring, because, well, it is. minis are basically small statues, right?
Maybe down the road I\'ll run a stage-by-stage on this, so the effect can be better demonstrated (most likely this will happen once I get around to actually posting a few pics on the site, anyhow... I\'m lazy, lol).
Praise be the Emperor,
Badaab
Sanitarium
New member
I usually paint in scorched brown the face (base colour for the skin), then paint the eyes in chaos black, add a thin white line with the thinnest brush I have and finally add a perpendicolar line to make the pupil. when I paint the face a cover mistakes and black paint out of the eye and the effect is preatty realistic with little effort
Tony Manero
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sani please stop people who have started this thread now can paint the reflection in the pupil...
