Ansgar the Staller - The eyes

After doing a bit of research and watching/reading some tutorials on the web I had a bash at painting his eyes.

I am extremely happy with my first attempt at eyes on this scale. My first attempt at doing decent eyes on any scale really.

Some things I noted:

• Don't use white as the base coat, a bone colour or similar is best.
• Do wash that colour with a 10:1 ish crimson. Concentrate on the corners of the eyes.
• Do use black for the whole pupil.
• Paint over this with e.g. black or blue, then paint back in a pupil, I'm assuming darker colours of eyes are easier.
• A little touch of pure white as a reflection works as well.
• Do paint in the parts where the eyelid meets the eye. Brown for the bottom eyelid and black for the top.

All I really need to do now is put some gloss varnish on the eyes.

Some pictures (base and wash):

Some more almost finished article: