Eye pupils? Posted by melaine9 on Jun 13, 2012
What does every one use for eye pupils? Do you paint them?
Re: Eye pupils? Posted by Na on Jun 14, 2012
I paint them onto foam ball halves... Or sometimes clay ... or sometimes plastic spoons.
Re: Eye pupils? Posted by Rikka on Jun 14, 2012
I use glass eyes, so I don't have to worry about pupils. But my dolls are a lot smaller then the avarage here...
Re: Eye pupils? Posted by Shawn on Jun 14, 2012
I paint them.
Re: Eye pupils? Posted by codyart1 on Jun 14, 2012
My pieces are a bit small too so I use glass beads and a bit of glass paint to customize the eyes, and also small marbles.  Sometimes when sculpting out of Fimo or Sculpey I use clay and paint them.

Cheers,
Cody
Re: Eye pupils? Posted by melaine9 on Jun 14, 2012
Thanks everyone! When making dolls I always painted my eyes on. But I did not use pingpong balls. Lol. While rumaging through my craft stuff. I found some of those vinyl stick on numbers. I found the little dots left after you peel off the 8 worked out great. But I love all the ideas I can get.
Re: Eye pupils? Posted by Rikka on Jun 15, 2012
Hi, you might like to check out this:
How to make realistic doll eyes:
http://www.dollmakersdream.com/make-realistic-doll-eyes-1.html
(Part I)
http://www.dollmakersdream.com/make-realistic-doll-eyes-2.html
(Part II)
http://www.dollmakersdream.com/make-realistic-doll-eyes-3.html
(Part III)
This is supposed to be for beginners, but still I guess you'll painting skill and patience...
Re: Eye pupils? Posted by Shawn on Jun 15, 2012
That bench-top fan-forced oven that is shown in the first link you posted Rikka is just too cool! I've never seen anything like that. When I was still with StoneLion Puppet Theater, we had found an old food warmer. Think small refrigerator like us use in a dorm room only it has heating elements and fans to keep things warm. We would put our papermache' and PaperClay projects in it to dry them out faster. Had to keep it really low heat or else it would shrink things to fast and ruin the project but it did cut dry times in half.
Re: Eye pupils? Posted by Billy D. Fuller on Jun 15, 2012
I'm not sure what brand names are the best. I have heard of this one before.

Link no longer available.
Re: Eye pupils? Posted by codyart1 on Jun 15, 2012
You can also use a food dehydrator.  You can find these at thrift stores or yard sales if want an inexpensive investment. These work really well for curing paper clay.
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