| Seems like one of the things that model
horse people like is an eye with a little eye white showing... which is understandable, we
are doing static sculptures after all, not real horses with real wet reflective eyeballs.
So we like to give definition to the eyes, showing what the horse is looking at and giving
emotion. If you are striving for that look, you can either paint the "white"
area on the eyeball, putting it on pretty thickly so that it covers the dark area
underneath, or you can take an exacto tip and remove the dark area, scraping down to the
white ceramic.
This is actually a really good method. If you try to paint the white on, it's really easy to get it too wet so that it runs into an area you don't want it to. By using the exacto and scraping the color away, you rarely have the control problem. Then, once you have scraped the color away from a little more than the area that will be white, you can paint the black eyeball over it. Painting back over some of the white will allow you to make a nice, distinct line and give you oh so much more control. So you don't need to scrape the entire eyeball, just a little more than your final white area will be. And by the way, try to look at the horse from the front and make sure his eyeballs are both looking in a similar direction... not one looking up and one back! I rarely do three colored eyes (white, brown and black) because it is hard to get the right effect and have it show up. Many people have better luck with this... but I am generally pleased with my black and white eyes. Besides, horses pupils are like horizontal slits, and I think they look really weird when I do them like that. Must be the years of looking at round HR pupils! So do what looks right to you, but find a method that you can do consistently. Joanie |
