Re: [SGII] The Eyes Have It.

>  1) Paint the eye socket a very dark shade of the skin color --
usually
medium brown for caucasian figures.
>  2) Paint the eyeballs a light gray -- white is too bright.
>  3) Dot the first eyeball with a point of black, resulting in a
perfect
eye, the Platonic Ideal of a 25mm miniature eye, an eye so perfect as to
make  Leonardo
> himself weep with envy.
>  4) Paint the other pupil.
>  5) Look at the miniature, and consider it in the light of years of
painting experience.
>  6) Admit to myself that the figure now looks like Bill the Cat.
>  7) Curse.
>  8) Repaint the second eye.
>  9) Return to step 4, and repeat for about half an hour.
>  10) Decide that, at last, the second eye is good enough.
>  11) Move on to the next miniature, and return to step one.

Ok a little tip I was forced into. Paint the eyes looking to the left or
right (both should look the same way) :)
I found it easier to paint eyes that way. Try and get it in the middle
on
both is asking for it.

> So, in the interest of starting an interesting discussion which will
no
doubt degenerate into a bitter argument over the innate superiority of
American eyes,

I couldn't possible see myself focussing on that spectacle of an
arguement.
I'm running before they send the Narn (blind as a) Bat Squad :)

Jeremey
germ@germy.co.uk
www.germy.co.uk