Re: [SGII] The Eyes Have It.

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 18:53:37 -0000, "Germ" <germ@germy.co.uk> wrote :

> 
> >  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 simple, so obvious...no wonder I never thought of that one! 
Something else to try tonight.

> > 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 :)

You are a bad, bad man and should be deeply ashamed of yourself.  You're
giving this list a black eye, you are.

-- 
John Crimmins
johncrim@voicenet.com