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17 Jul 2025 2:50 p.m. PST
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| CarlZog | 17 Jul 2025 8:25 a.m. PST |
EDIT; Twice I tried to post this under the thread title, "Painting with one eye?" and twice it has posted with some other random title. Sorry for the confusion.
I suffered a retinal detachment a while back and my minis painting got put on hold. Now after three surgeries it's as good as it's going to get, but too blurry and distorted to help the other eye.
The loss of depth perception is messing up my painting. Does anybody have experience overcoming this, or are my minis painting days over?
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| cavcrazy | 17 Jul 2025 9:24 a.m. PST |
It might help to wear an eye patch when you paint, the good eye will adjust accordingly and after a bit of getting used to it, you should be back to painting normally. |
| DyeHard | 17 Jul 2025 11:49 a.m. PST |
I have no great advice, But try rigging things so that you are touching the holder, stick, whatever you hold your figures with. By touching the holder your fine motion sense will help compensate for the lose of depth perception. Think about writing on paper, most folks do not look at their hands as their proprioception has trained on when they are in contact with paper or not. |
| Timbo W | 17 Jul 2025 2:53 p.m. PST |
I'm in the same boat. Still painting but tend to look over the top of my glasses for the fine work. Sometimes need to double check where the brush is in depth terms. One thing for the OP is to remember that your eyes take a while to settle down after surgery, so get a new eye test in 6 months or so. Also in general terms the brain learns to compensate for the bad eye. You might also find yourself compensating by closing the bad eye. I'm still planning to get a pirate eyepatch to try! |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 17 Jul 2025 2:54 p.m. PST |
EDIT; Twice I tried to post this under the thread title, "Painting with one eye?" and twice it has posted with some other random title. Sorry for the confusion. Apologies. We're doing some maintenance on the forum. In the long run, it will speed up the posting of new topics. However, at the moment, if you happen to post at the exact time that we're taxing the system, there's a chance that an unrelated (much, much older) topic title will overwrite your topic title. A rather exotic bug, actually. |
 Dal Gavan  | 17 Jul 2025 3:52 p.m. PST |
Does anybody have experience overcoming this, or are my minis painting days over? I had cataract surgery last week and before that the sight in my right eye had deteriorated to the point where it was distracting, not just useless. But I had the same experience as Timbo- my left eye learnt to compensate. While doing really fine details (eg cuff lace on 18mm SYW), was more difficult, it wasn't impossible- I just had to do more touching up, and things seemed easier when I closed my right eye. Good luck, Carl. I hope it heals as well as it can. |
| d88mm1940 | 17 Jul 2025 8:49 p.m. PST |
My right eye got retina detached. The Dr tried gas; no joy. So, he filled it with silicon oil. It worked for about a month, although everything was yellowish and tilted about 5 degrees. Finally black crap clouded over it (looks like Nebraska).
I use a bright LED light and 2.5 zoom reading glasses and I can paint OK.
I use a lot of washed to coverup a lot of mistakes! |
| CBPIII | 21 Jul 2025 3:48 p.m. PST |
About 16 years ago I had an issue in my left eye with weak blood vessels leaking blood into my field of vision. The specialist didb3 or 4 rounds of laser volleys to seal off the weaker vessels. It left my left eye a little blurry and it took a long time to get more clear vision back. I painted with an eyepatch for some time. It was tough and took a lot of practice. The left eye is still a little blurry from time to time, but that can be helped by closing it while painting sometimes. |
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