What are you doing today hobbywise?

Oof, eyes... Unless it's a special character who really needs the detail, humans don't get to have their eyes done by me. The wash/flesh contrast will give them shadowed eyes that make it clear that's where the eyes are and that they exist, and nobody has complained about that. Lizards and non-humans, I will just colour the sclera and only if the model's eyes are big enough will I do the iris.

I spent an age trying to get eyes done and getting ever more frustrated with the results before the chaps at my FLS told me not to worry about the eyes, as from the distance we usually look at them? We barely register them.

 

While this is true, there is something deeply rewarding about getting it just right

(I even tried a bit of eyeliner on this now )

My current technique is to get the yellow blobbed on and then the pupil but then go in and clean up. It's easier to paint eyelids neater than the recessed and harder to see eye itself I find.

Here's what it looks like before the clean up.
I'm usually wearing my 3x zoom lense for this kind of work.

People that add gradients or eye shine are practicing dark witchcraft.