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Im not sure how to do this or what you would recomend, i want to make eyes but actually look like eyes not just painted, i know some people use those kind of glass eyes u get from taxidermist places, but here in panama there are no places to get them. Wanted to know if anybody knew how to make glass looking eyes or had any sugestions. Thanks
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http://www.toyrepairs.co.uk/toyeyes.htm
http://www.hauntershangout.com/home/easyeyes.asp
http://www.glasseyes.com/
http://www.bjcraftsupplies.com/dolls/eyes-animal01.asp
http://www.softglasseyes.com/
are interesting links for eyes. The best tend to be rather expensive.
You might try using a glass disc and painting the back of it in reverse - i.e. the pupil first, then the iris. I've used this for fish and it can look quite effective.
DavidO
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There was a fantastic tutorial for eyes on the puppetsandstuff website last year
http://puppetsandstuff.com/community/in … 815.0.html
quite effective and may be adaptable for what you want.
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It is possible to make realistic-looking eyes in sculptures without glass eyes.
One way is to sculpt the face with open eye sockets (eyelids but no eyeball), like dollmakers do with porcelain dolls. Then you make a pair of eyeballs and insert them behind the eye sockets. You must realize that eyeballs are much larger than they appear, as we see only the front surface, not the entire ball.
This article shows some drawings of eyes, and photos of making eyes with polymer clay: http://www.squidoo.com/sculpting-eyes
The eyeballs can be made from polymer clay (if you have access to it - some brands are Sculpey, Fimo, Cernit) which can be baked in a household oven, large clay, glass or wooden beads, nuts or pods, or toy balls that have been painted to look like eyeballs, etc. If you know someone who fires clay, you can use clay.
If you have to make your own, you can also make half-spheres, but sometimes it is easier to find something round than to make it. Talking to a dollmaker, she admitted that sometimes she has to resize her entire doll to fit the eyes she made from found objects.
To get the lifelike effect, you need to do some careful painting, and then coat the dry paint with a clear glaze, like glossy varnish or clear nail enamel to give it that realistic shine.
Sue
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I needed silver eyes and I found this tutorial a while back as an alternative for buying eyes. I haven't tried it yet (maybe after the holidays for my eyeless dragon). Looks pretty straight forward though.
http://www.hidetanning.net/TaxidermyEyes.html
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The eyes that are cast in that tutorial remind me of those clear glass nuggets that you buy from florist shops to put in vases with artificial flowers. There is another option for anyone who doesn't want to mould their own, although you would be more limited with size of course.
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I usually make eyes out of Kleenex and white glue, rolled into miniscule little balls. I then insert them into the eye sockets in my face/head sculpt (usually with the aid of a sewing needle). Transparent gloss (I use nail polish) gives them the life-like wet look already mentioned by others.
An idea that just occured to me: If you can find some hollow, transparent, half-spheres (perhaps the plastic bubbles that toys from vending machines come in), you could paint the interior surfaceof the bubble to look like an eye, which would give you a glass like effect on the exterior. Whatever you're making would have to be in scale with them though. They're pretty cheap at least (usually 25 or 50 cents). Tiny cups/bowls would probably also work.
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