| John the OFM | 12 Sep 2013 8:18 a.m. PST |
The huge eyes ruin an otherwise fine paint job. |
| Cincinnatus | 12 Sep 2013 9:45 a.m. PST |
It amazes me that people can paint most things to an acceptable standard and yet do eyes so badly. The easy way to make acceptable eyes: - Dark eye socket - A very short and slim line to represent the white of the eye with a dark dot in the middle that goes from top to bottom. Just make sure if one eye is looking left or right, the other one is too. |
| PapaSync | 12 Sep 2013 10:29 a.m. PST |
I don't see a Sai in this models hands. I can see the chucks in his right but his left seems to have a scimitar. The Sai is is more of a trident and looks like this. link |
| Sigwald | 13 Sep 2013 4:33 a.m. PST |
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| Delthos | 13 Sep 2013 6:05 a.m. PST |
It's much harder to make a poorly sculpted figure look better with a paintjob. The miniature itself is just not good. As the others have said the eyes are the only thing wrong with the paintjob. |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 13 Sep 2013 11:25 a.m. PST |
The funny thing is, the eyes really aren't that big… but they look huge in the photos. I checked the figure, and I think the problem is that the skin highlights are blending with the white of the eyes in the photos. I'll try 'retouching' the figure…  |
| Cincinnatus | 13 Sep 2013 4:36 p.m. PST |
It is difficult to judge fine details in a photo but I would have said to replace the white area in the eye socket with a dark brown. That would define the socket and you'd be pretty far along towards making it a much better face. Look at a real person. Their eye sockets are always kind of shadowy. That's why a lot of people just do a dark wash and call it a day on the eyes. That technique actually works pretty well and is far more acceptable than eyes done badly. |
| John the OFM | 13 Sep 2013 6:27 p.m. PST |
That's why a lot of people just do a dark wash and call it a day on the eyes. Yup! Pretty close. Look at a "real person" at the distance where they look like a 28mm figure. When Putnam (or was it Prescott?) said "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!" I don't think he meant 200 yards. |
| Cricket | 17 Sep 2013 6:49 p.m. PST |
A RAFM painting pamphlet gave a tip for eyes that I like. You don't use white, use a light grey instead. It keeps the eyes from getting the white "pop". |
| Cincinnatus | 20 Sep 2013 8:01 p.m. PST |
That makes sense but gray or white, a crappy implementation is crap and a good one will be good. |
| Your Kidding | 16 Oct 2013 8:26 a.m. PST |
At least you got the mini painted and I like the colors used. On the paint for the skin, it appears a little thick. That could explain the problems you had with washes pooling and/or the highlights popping out where the surface might have been smoother. Which paints and inks did you use? |
| CIA Games | 04 Aug 2014 7:55 a.m. PST |
I've gotten to the point where I just darken in the socket and then paint a thin line of whatever color I'm using for the mid-tone on the flesh. Seems to work well, almost never needs touch up and doesn't make the figure look all googly eyed.
I used to spend too much time on eyes just to have them never look good or proportionate. As John OFM pointed out, if you were looking at a human at that distance in real life, you wouldn't see the whites and pupils. |
