Hey Potato thanks for saying my photos are good. Personally I think they stink when you compare the photos to the real thing but there you go. The camera whilst important is not as important as the lighting. Most of the photos I take are with a 2 or 3 megapixel one with macro one without. I use at least two desk lamps to get the lighting I do and I set the camera where possible so they are slightly underexposed (ie darker than real life) If I set it higher then I cant adjust them in my cheap software package. There are plenty of tutes in the articles section on how to take photos tho. Good luck.
Can sum1 out there paint eyes?!?! HELP ME! PLZ!
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That quite grainy because I used the interpolation on the camera to get 6mp. Something I dont usually do.
You can get a decent idea of how I do em though.
Basic rundown is.
Prime figure
Basecoat skin
Paint eyeball white (cream or ivory really)
Put small round black dot where iris will go.
Put smaller white dot on this.
Put thin iris colour over the white dot.
Paint thin black line across the top for the lashes.
Paint mid brown line across bottom for lashes.
Tidy up around the eye with skintone ready for the skin highlights.
Oh and believe it or not I would like to express many thanks to Alexi_Z for the tips on doing eyes.
DrEvilmonki
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Oh Klute you in trouble now. You mentioned you know who!lol
Yeah, I was pretty stoked when I pulled off the reflection dot on the Grima Wormtongue model... I\'m not sure if you can tell by my shatty picture.. Another aspect that hasn\'t been brought up that I find helps a lot is putting the two red dots on either side of the white of the eye. It gives it mor of a natural look. This is just my opinion though.
I\'d just like to throw in an alternate method of eye painting that works well for me. I\'ve tried Klute\'s way and for some reason I always manage to mess it up if I do it like that. So this is the method I\'ve developed through trial and error:
Paint the eye area first, before doing skin tones.
Paint eye socket area with a thin coat in a dark color (not black - too harsh. I prefer a very dark brown.). Don\'t worry if you get a lot of the shadow shade on the face; you\'re going to paint over it with skin tone.
Paint eyeball with off-white (again, pure white is too harsh and unnatural).
Paint skin tones around eye area, leaving a thin outline of the dark shade still visible around the edges of the eyelids.
After completing skin tones, paint in iris color (the iris is the colored part, not the pupil, says the Grammar Cop
).
Add a tiny dot of off-white as a highlight, off-center in the colored area, near the top of the eyeball.
When I first read a description of painting eyes this way, I thought there was no way I could manage it without many corrections, but I\'ve actually found it fairly easy. I just have to make sure I have a brush with a very fine point and keep my paint at the right consistency. I found a slightly different version of this method at the Reaper site, but I\'ve altered it just a bit to suit my own style.
Paint the eye area first, before doing skin tones.
Paint eye socket area with a thin coat in a dark color (not black - too harsh. I prefer a very dark brown.). Don\'t worry if you get a lot of the shadow shade on the face; you\'re going to paint over it with skin tone.
Paint eyeball with off-white (again, pure white is too harsh and unnatural).
Paint skin tones around eye area, leaving a thin outline of the dark shade still visible around the edges of the eyelids.
After completing skin tones, paint in iris color (the iris is the colored part, not the pupil, says the Grammar Cop
).Add a tiny dot of off-white as a highlight, off-center in the colored area, near the top of the eyeball.
When I first read a description of painting eyes this way, I thought there was no way I could manage it without many corrections, but I\'ve actually found it fairly easy. I just have to make sure I have a brush with a very fine point and keep my paint at the right consistency. I found a slightly different version of this method at the Reaper site, but I\'ve altered it just a bit to suit my own style.
I started my cmon6 entry (the monochramatic thingy) Anyway I thought it would be easy painting an eye in black and white. How wrong could I be. I have had 6 goes and still cant get it right. Im at the point of stripping the mini and starting again. AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGG
I dont have this much trouble with color. :flame:
I dont have this much trouble with color. :flame:
