I like the eye experimentation. I've recently given up on spending lots of time on eyes. Now I just do a wash, letting the darker color fill in the recesses. Of course, some models have their eye balls sculpted so big that I have to paint some white in there, BlackTree for instance.
I agree with you, the white eyes do look better. I've done the same with some Spartans. Of course their helmets sit a bit lower on their heads than on these miniatures, but it does look better and gives the face a better definition.
The look good. I try to keep my whites from being too round and make the pupil/iris a bit larger.
Here's a page I refer too from time to time when I get away from what I like: http://www.paintingclinic.com/clinic/eyes.htm
28 October 2009 at 15:31
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I've completed finishing and basing the second unit of Carthaginian Levy (above), these are minis mass-painted by Greg, and detailed and based by myself. This time I spent an extra 15 minutes on painting in the eyes.
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After listening to the comments on the previous unit, I decided to go with as small a white dot as I could manage, and then to apply a dark ink in the eye socket and up to the brim of the helmet. The left element (above) is from the new unit; the right is from the the original. I'm pleased with the effect when viewed from a distance. I feel that the "new" eyes are quite effective, from a distance; so I gave the unit an appropriate stantard!
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I'm going to leave the remaining Numidian foot until reinforcements arrive from Paris, and sort the cavalry. The above 24 minis will roughly double the size of my Numidian horse. I was lucky enough to purchase 9 part-painted on eBay which has given me a head start!
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Close this window Jump to comment formI like the eye experimentation. I've recently given up on spending lots of time on eyes. Now I just do a wash, letting the darker color fill in the recesses. Of course, some models have their eye balls sculpted so big that I have to paint some white in there, BlackTree for instance.
21 October 2009 at 21:24
Hi Andrew,
I agree about the bigger eyes; you get them on some Foundry, too. They are better with whites and an iris.
BTW I enjoy your RedRampant site! You paint, then, too?
21 October 2009 at 22:55
I agree with you, the white eyes do look better. I've done the same with some Spartans. Of course their helmets sit a bit lower on their heads than on these miniatures, but it does look better and gives the face a better definition.
22 October 2009 at 00:26
The look good. I try to keep my whites from being too round and make the pupil/iris a bit larger.
Here's a page I refer too from time to time when I get away from what I like: http://www.paintingclinic.com/clinic/eyes.htm
28 October 2009 at 15:31