Coloring Doll Eyes with markers

[Kirk Dietrich 0]

I remember doll eyes used to come in colors and they still may, its not something I use often so I haven't really checked. Tha's just as well though as I'd probably wound up buying all the colors available and have more of what I don't need.

Anyway, I had this pack of the traditional white doll eyes around that I decided I wanted to use on some foam bugs but I didn't like the way the white iris looked but liked the bug-eyed look. I had just got finished painting some bugs with my Copic and decided I'd color the doll eyes and just paint a black pupil on them. Well, the first color I tried didn't color the clear plastic dome completely, the marker I was using is transparent and wound up tinting the clear plastic allowing the black pupil to show through. I tried a few more colors and the light colors remained transparent, but for some reason, the Flourescent Yellow/Orange was opaque so, I just painted a pupil on with the black Copic marker by hand like I had originally thought I'd be doing..

I guess you could glue them on first and color with the felt tip marker but I decided to do a bunch and stuck them to some doubled over masking tape and used the Copic Airbrush markers to color a batch.

Kirk

[riffleriversteelheadslayer 0]

cool now I just found another reason to ask for a copic airbrush

[Piker20 0]

Hate to tell you Riff but that big dude in red with the white beard..... Afraid you're going to have to beg the wife instead!

[Kirk Dietrich 0]

I'm sure he has a better shot with the big dude in red.

[riffleriversteelheadslayer 0]

Fathers day is coming up and my daughter has some serious making up to do

[utyer 0]

You can still get colored doll eyes at Joann's Fabrics. They come in an assortment pack with blue, green, yellow, white, red, and purple iris colors. I think the count was 200 total. Less than 3.00.

 

I have put a few on some frogs, which I need to post.

[Fishypieter 0]

You can always try and get them from Aliexpress.

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/1000pcs-lot-12mm-Plastic-colorful-board-wiggle-eye-Movable-eye-4-color-Doll-eyes-Craft-material/860648927.html

[Wavey1988 0]

I've got a load of paint, that's translucent, for tinting aeroplane canopies and head lights when model building, might have to do some experimenting

[Kudu 0]

Wavey. Lets see some of these planes

[Kirk Dietrich 0]

I bought some of the colored iris eyes like shown above, they do look good. They have a clear plastic globe and the color is on the back like the white ones. When coloring/tinting he dome, can see the color of the protruding dome from the bottom of the bug.

 

Kirk

[Wavey1988 0]

Wavey. Lets see some of these planes

 

http://www.flytyingforum.com/index.php?showtopic=73668

 

Here's a selection. Don't have many pic's of my fast movers. There's a mix of armour in there too