Custom-Eye Tutorials

Thank you so much! I'll be doing this for my 2nd dolls eyes! He's a total custom job I decided to start due to a free head event ^_^()

 

lovely tut~ i will be trying this out because the boys I plan on making have awkward colored eyes

 

hint... really love the customized eyes idea, but am constantly wanting to change my doll's eyes, and was having trouble getting the lens out. i ordered the eyes from Antina's and cleaned them the way Elysion gear described. i decided to drill holes in the white's of the eyes so i could easily change out the eyes whenever i liked. also did this with the diy eyes from pupapa.

Antina eyes.



Pupapa eyes.

did this on 14, 16, 18 and 20mm eyes, being gentle and it worked fine. lay the printed eyes inside without attaching it with anything and when you are ready to change color, poking a skewer through the backside makes the lens pop out easily.
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This is great! Thanks!!

 

It's great~
but i think i can find some custom eye bases easier to use~
i'll try it some day

 

This is the perfect tutorial that I was looking for.
THANKS... now to buy more eyes. Just when I thought that I had enough eyes.

 

i have a question.

i previously asked in another thread if anyone knew where i could buy eyes without whites or pupils and was wondering if there was any way to colour the eye base to be the same colour as the pupil without it being too obvious.

should i paint a top layer of semi-transparent polish or paint over the finished eye?

 

I don't think you want to put any polish on or in the eyes as it tends to yellow after a year or so (unless that's ok with you?) I think, but am unsure, that an acrylic gloss will not yellow....

But then again, at the price that you can get some eyes for, I'd say go for it! Have fun and try it out

 

i will probably try acrylic gloss. anyway, i'll see how it turns out. thanks for the advice!

 

Works for super tiny eyes, too! I omitted the hammer step, though.

 

It´s a very great idea ...

 

This is wonderfull! the idea of making eyes i want all my dollies to have is great!

 

does this work with all eyes? (glass especially)

 

this works with the hard plastic eyes only (polymer, acrylic).
Glass eye are all one piece and are glass. "soft glass" are not glass but a soft plastic material (silicone)

 

I read this entire tutorial and i still could not find how to make eyes without a black pupil...
i am really interested in trying out this technique but i need some eyes that do have a pupil and some that have oddly colored pupils (like a orange iris and green pupil for example).

How would i go about accomplishing this?

Is there an eye base that i could use that doesn't have the pupil pre-done?

Thanks

 

To make the eyes, you need to simply draw them as you want them. I used my computer, a program called "the Gimp" www.gimp.org which is free. You may have to experiment to print the eye out the right size, then it's just a matter of cutting the iris out and placing it under the clear cap, snap and you're done!

In the "Gimp" program, or photoshop or even MSpaint, you just draw a circle, color it as you like, then make another circle with whatever color you want, and print it out in different sizes, or calculate the exact size (which is what I did, but to complex for me to explain... dpi converted to size... ugh - then making sure it printed at 100%) but that actually did work perfectly...

But you can also simply paint right on top of the eyeball, using perhaps markers, or some even paint on the back side of the clear iris insert... not using the computer at all!

Hope that helps??!!

 

I like those eyes...how did you get rid of the black pupil? and another question. Do you think it would be possible to do super super tiny eyes (aka 5-6mm). If you skipped the hammer step...how did you get the whites out...I tried with 8mm...and I broke the clear part (ruined). I really want red 6mm eyes and can't find any so I wanna make them...how did you do that?

 

Teseya -There are also DIY kits that you can get if you are having trouble breaking the eyes. They do cost more than the "cheap" eyes.
Maybe if you tried soaking in denatured alcohol before hammering to soften the glue?

 

thanks, I'll try that...don't know if I can afford an expensive set though...what is DIY anyway? and do they have them in 6mm sizes?

 

DIY is short for do it yourself

I'm trying to find a few websites that do DIY kits. can't remember them right now.

http://www.pupapa.com/shop/index.php?cPath=27_71 has 8mm

 

Thank you so much.

You make it so easy to understand

 

OH thank you for this. D: What did you end up using, if anything? *has a box of those coming in soon*

 

Awesome. thank you :3 I'm looking forward to actually using your tutorial ^^

 

This tip is so cool! Thank you so much for the tutorial XD!

 

It's very interesting!! I do not know it was possible...I'll try to do something animal looking, like a wolf!!

 

I made that same mistake on the first pair of eyes for my girl.

first:

second: I'm really happy with the new colors and the bigger pupils.

Thank you for the tutorial!

 

Awsome, thanks alot for the tutorial!
My first doll is not here yet, but I guess I will have hard time chosing the eye color. When I design a char on paper I usually redraw the eyes with different colors several times (unless I had some color in mind right from the start), so this might help alot

 

Woahhhh, this is really awesome : D
Now I can put the extra eyes I don't want to good use

 

Very helpfull thankies^^

 

this is so cool
i am having a really hard time finding the eye color i want and this is perfect!
does anyone have any blank 16mm sized templates?

 

Wow, this is a FANTASTIC tutorial. I'm going absolutely nuts looking for just the right pair of eyes for one of my upcoming dolls and have been unsuccessful so far.

I might just try this method instead. C:

 

i tried this with a pair of eyes out of an old ceramic doll in a thrift store. (get the ones that the kids have drawn all over k) it's hard to tell which dolls have this kind of eye tho. the ones i got had a paper with the design on it. i just painted it with glow in the dark nail polish, so it has no pupil but i'll try and get pics.

thanks a ton Ely for the awesome tut. i'm gonna have to get a ton of those backs!!

 

i found this awsome nailpolish hiding under my bed and i had to use it to make some pretty vamp eyes for my Jinx. Thanks for the tut. it worked so well im gonna make tons more!!! i wish my printer worked as i'd love to do some more natural ones.





dont mind the rest of the eye is kinda icky

 

Thank you very much, Elysion gear, for your tutorial!!!!


Here is the picture of my painted Pupapa DIY eyes, on Nora, a AoD Nicole:

Thank you again for your generosity!

 

@@ i will make the experiment, thanks

 

this is such a great tutorial awesome

 

I have some at home im going to mess with thanks for the tutorial

 

some links to iris' you can use
just size them to what you need and print
http://www.adamdorman.com/_images/eye_big.jpg
http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs27/f/2008/042/0/0/Iris_Eye_Macro_Stock_by_zpyder.jpg
http://www.drbina.com/iris-eye.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JjCu_PpH8dY/RoYUPCGFeGI/AAAAAAAADp4/5Va_i7jvvf4/s320/iris+eye.jpg
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/biometric-2.jpg
http://www.enjoyhere.net/images/stories/Look-At-The-Eyes/eye-color01.jpg
http://www.art-dept.com/artists/rankin/portfolio/specialprojects/eyescapes/portfolio.html
http://www.photoshoptextures.com/human-textures/iris-blue-texture.jpg
http://media.photobucket.com/image/eye iris/puturani/people/iris/glaz_001.jpg

 

I'm gonna have to try making some

 

Thanks for the tutorial. Those pictures were so cute ^-^

 

I never thought of!...Ill be using your tut as a reference!!

 

thats very neat-o Im gunna have so much fun trying that out when i get my first doll XD

 

fantastic idea will have to try this hehe

 

This is sooo cool I cant wait to try it!

 

Neat! I'd like to try doing this with photos for irises; get me some nifty sunset eyes!
For anyone preparing to do this, you might have better luck using an acrylic like Future Floor Polish instead of a lacquer like nailpolish. It's thinner (no brushstrokes, which doesn't seem to be a usual nailpolish prob but which I always have XD), shinier, and hard-wearing; people who make model cars and stuff often use it on any clear plastic parts to make them glossier and more transparent. The con is, it only comes in big bottles ^_^;

 

Wow, what a nice tuturial - thank you for sharing

 

This looks like a good tut. I'm already making a tonne of custom stuff for my lot so a few eyes would be another challenge!

 

I saw this tutorial and like, instantly ran out and bought the eyes. I'm still waiting on them to arrive...as soon as they do you can be sure I'll be posting in here. =D

 

Definitely will have to try this one, I want to see if i can replicate the same star pattrn in my eyes for my doll.. pretty pretty

 

Thanks for this tutorial

 

This is very helpful! Thank you!

 

My new Bobobie doll came with a cheap pair of acrylic eyes so I thought I'd give this tutorial a try! I had problems with clouding from using nail polish, but I managed to buff them shiny again and switched to an acrylic varnish.

Peppermint eyes:
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Love those peppermint eyes! That's fun, especially on a vampire!!! She's hypnotizing me! LOL

 

wow cool o_o i didnt know eyes were made like that XD

 

This tutorial is really nice *O*

 

>.< day and a dollar too late for me... *used acetone*

Edit~ If you've cloudied up an eye... let it be known that rubbing alcohol might help. I was able to get a large portion of the clouding off the pair of eyes I just buggered up. Enough so that the top of the lense (which has nasty clouding around the edge) is clean now. Probably not a magic bullet... but if it helps... woot.



I skipped out on pupils cus they never end up round... but I'm gonna make her another paper (didn't seal it down cus I'm like that) with a pupil.

I assume that tacking the paper down stops with the reflecting crap I'vebeen having problems with...