few questions about painting eyes

few questions about painting eyes
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Custom Workstationokay, so I have been trying to finish my red sonja custom fro a few days and all I have left to do is the eyes. but I can't get them to look right. I tried doing a slight black outline around them but the result was horrific. so now I have painted over them so much that they look funny and the eyes are going to ruin the whole damn figure.
so, how bad would the eyes look without the black outline?
and what color are red sonja's eyes?

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Posted by
atgscl on Sunday, August 17, 2008
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Best advice I've gotten echoes Punstarr. But first use some kind of gentle solvent to clean up the gunked up paint out of your Sonja's eyes - it's only gonna get worse if you don't. Try a Q-tip and 98% rubbing alcohol, Goof Off 2 or Apoxie Safety Solvent if you have any of those.
Then paint the eyeball black with a little going outside the edges, then paint white inside the black leaving the black outline, try to thin your white paint as much as possible so it doesn't gunk up. To do the iris you need a small round brush say like an 0/5 round - this is something that is the hardest - placing the iris correctly. I'm still learning this.
If the black outline around the eye looks too thick you can go around the edge with your flesh tone paint using a fine detail brush to cover it up a bit.
So it's kind of a subtractive method in a way.
Jin also has a great tutorial about it > Painting Eyes
Hope this helps.
Then paint a black circle, inside that a slightly smaller eye colour circle, then the pupil. After that, add highlights.