- I painted the underside of the eyebrows with basic skin tones darken with slight German Camouflage Black (actually super dark brown) to get somewhat sepia ink texture tone. I do not like the Vallejo Sepia Ink as it needed constant stirring otherwise it shows a glossy sheen
- Then the eyes were filled with glazing medium to protect the paint in case there are some hiccups, we can still rescue it by deep washing with water
- The eye edges were given a light wash of Vermillion mixed with 5% of sunny skin tone to get the edges defined like innards of an eye
- Draw in the lashes for the eyes, going back and forth with skin tones till it settles in nicely without being too overt
- Top and bottom eye sockets were pin glazed with Vermillion mixed with German Chocolate Brown 50:50 dilute to less than 20% with water
- The upper eyelid and lower eyebags are highlighted with Sunny Skin Tone and Light Skin Tone 20:70 diluted with water to about 40%. Reason for water is to make sure its not too opague and it gives me about 1 minute to decide to wash it off or not.
- Dot in the whites at the edges to scale down on the pupil sizes
- Glaze the eyes again to give the glossy look
- Glaze light skin tones of upper cheek bones
- Glaze the cheeks with Vermillion, Black, Glaze medium and Sunny Skin Tone 3:1:5:1 diluted with 50% water. Reason for Glaze medium is to prevent the powdery look of paint pigment breakup.Bust head with face and eyes corrected below.....
Finally, it looked much better after 1 hour. Happy with that. Note that the head gear has recieved 5 coats of white mixed with Dark Prussian Blue 1:1 to get the foundation for it to be painted later with the dark violet colour.
Although I said earlier, to know when to stop, however, I never regret this morning's work as in comparing the 2, you get more life out of the new set of eyes when compared to the former.