Eyes or no eyes
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Michael Stockin
Lord
I always do eyes, though most often in the case of missile troops who are aiming, just one eye.
Orjetax
Lord
Your model here is very successful not-eyes.
He looks to me like he’s sleepy at his post, or perhaps praying or gathering thoughts before combat.
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orkwrangler
Vassal
You could just paint them very dark, almost black.
Brother Meredith
Lord
I do a simple white/ivory eye and cheat by dotting the pupil with a black micron pen. Just adding even a simple eye brings them to life I think!
ManicMan
Lord
I try eyes.. though some models I don't. More so I don't when I can't even quite be sure if they are sculpted there. I don't know if it's just my eye sight but sometimes I can see where the eyes are, where they should be, but getting the sclera area fully defined can be tricky, let alone the pupil.
Fimm McCool
Lord
I always do eyes... except recently when matching painting to a mate who doesn't.
The Serene Badger
Baron
I tend to use 0.03mm pen to do eyes, and have started putting over a cream colour rather than stark white. I frequently mess them up. I have just bought a sepia brown and a grey pen to give more colour variation and also to hopefully not be so stark, as I think black is sometimes too stark and stare like. I've not tried them yet, but will report back when I do.
Fencig
Vassal
uggh, eyes. They go one of 2 ways for me.Either they turn out right on the first try, or they look wrong and it doesn't matter how many times i try it on that particular model, they stay wrong.
Add it to NMM as the 2 things in this hobby i have not succeeded at.
As to whether to paint or not, for an army that you drag to a game night, i don't see doing dozens. Maybe just the Captains and major figures. For the rank and file throwing a dark wash in there and call lit good should be good enough for your opponents.
Add it to NMM as the 2 things in this hobby i have not succeeded at.
As to whether to paint or not, for an army that you drag to a game night, i don't see doing dozens. Maybe just the Captains and major figures. For the rank and file throwing a dark wash in there and call lit good should be good enough for your opponents.
Michael Stockin
Lord
Same, I use ivory for the whites and then dark grey, dark green, or dark brown for the dots.
symphonicpoet
Moderator
The white I use isn't the purest white, and it's over black, so that probably softens it up just a bit anyway. I typically use a black stripe for the iris, so it's more suggestion than realism. Every now and then I use a relatively dark blue if I want to give someone blue eyes. I used a medium blue once and a blue ink over the white for a blue on blue Dune reference. (For the Lawrence of Arabia Scout when I repainted him.) I might have to try the pens. Serene Badger, do you use a paint pen or just a sharpie of some sort?
The Serene Badger
Baron
This is what I've just bought, but not used yet. The black ones were just standard fine liners from a stationery shop. I've got 0.05 and 0.03 black ones. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00201O6FC?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title
Fencig
Vassal
the funny thing (actually it's not funny, drives me nuts), is not getting the black dot on in the middle of the eye and making both eyes the same. The hardest part is getting the eye painted such that it fits the facial expression. I for the life of me still don't understand how this works. When it's right it just looks right, when it's wrong the facial expression goes to confused, sleepy, or worst of all " just saw a ghost".
This is one of my favorites, i think because i actually managed to do a bloodhsot eyes. This is Grishnak coming after Merry and Pipp (let me know if you guys would like to see more of this one too). Although I really should re-shoot it for better pics
and then this stupid thing, the eyes were such that it took all my will power not to chuck this model into a wall
ManicMan
Lord
I'm sure he might comment on it but I know @Fimm McCool has said before on the merits of doing the eyes black and then adding the two white dots either side. I haven't really tried it myself yet.
Fencig
Vassal
I would be very interested in seeing example of that.
Another thing an artist/sculptor for reaper said, "skew the iris to one side". I might have the revisit the Hobbits and make it so that they're looking down. It can't make it any worse that it is now
The Serene Badger
Baron
Something I was told for stopping the scared stare is to avoid having white all around the iris. It's rare to see white at the top and bottom of the eye. Easier said than done though, especially when models don't always have anatomically proportioned eyes and the iris would be massive. Sometimes I've just made the eye skin coloured with a dot iris on it. Especially if small.
Fimm McCool
Lord
Have a look on my blog. All the eyes are done that way.
chrisgoodone
Lord
When I was little I used to (didn't even think or worry about it). Then on restart after a year of two of painting I am trying to. Agree with the 'bringing to life' school of thought but mostly I'm a bit of a coward! Since I invested in a et palette it has made it more do-able