Making your own BJD eyes

Hmmm . . . not sure if there's a DIY eye tutorial, but I know it's been done, by Paulkaiju and by Batchix, among others. You might try sending them a PM to see if they have any suggestions for how-to's or tutorials to send you to.

Also, welcome to DoA!

-- Andi ^_^

 

I just model mine to fit an existing commercial size. It's too resource intensive in the long run to consider making decent eyes on my own. (Lampworking materials are 'spensive... and I can't use them out here anyway...)

 

I just bought a pair of commercial eyes and molded my doll to fit those (makes life easier!)

I have been meaning to try making some urethane eyes at some point though.

 

I modelled the eye sockets on my doll very roughly, and then used a round abrasive stone eye sizer to shape the sockets from the inside.

 

Where would you buy something like that? It would be great for smoothing out my nesting joints.

 

Eye Bevelers! http://www.miniworlddolls.com/TS6Eye.htm

 

As I would like to find some tutorial - in English - to do eyes of BJD!
Does anybody know how to indicate some????Tk.

 

I have a plan on how to do them, no diagrams, and it hasn't been tested, but here's the method i plan to use...

1) Sculpt a perfect eye shape not including the paperweight lens, and making sure the back is perfectly flat and not round (this will be important later)

2) Hollow out a perfectly round hole in the middle ( don't go all the way through I'm guessing maybe 2/8 of an inch about, you may want to go a little deeper. if it comes to a pint this might be a good thing, and give the color more depth later)

3) make a mold of this

4) cast this shape in white resin, you can make just a 1 part mold, this will give you a nice flat back

5) For this you will need a transparent resin. Mix up the base color you want, and drop it onto your hole till pretty full (leave a little room)

6) if you want the lines in the iris, drop a small amount of the different color with a dropper dead center into the still wet base color, gently pull out towards the edges with a pin in lines for the iris details.

7) drop a small drop of black pigmented resin dead center.

8 ) leave to set.

9) for this you will need a lens, I think mr hobby make them, or you might be able to find ok ones in a craft store scrap booking section.

place the eye on the back of your mold, and pour a little un pigmented clear resin over your eye, and slide (not place as this will trap air) the lens over the iris, If you have a plastic lens, the wet resin should stick it to the iris to make a single solid object

10)leave it to dry and your eye is complete, now just make the 2nd one!

You can experiment with drying stages etc, to make all sorts of looks, a pearl pigment could also be fun.

The clear casting craft resin like you find in craft stores is hard to get to work. I tried it before and in small castings the temperature never gets high enough to cure, though you can cure it in the oven, but I can't remember what temp that was at.

sadly I can't think of any clear resin that doesn't need de-gassing first that is also safe for home use (the main reason I suggest buying a lens not casting one) You can get around that by adding things like glitter, and pearl pigment to disguise any unwanted bubbles in your iris.

Hope this gives some one an idea they can run with!

 

Doll eyes come in pretty much any size, so unless it's an odd-shaped eye you're wanting, there's not a whole lot of reason you wouldn't be able to find eyes that would fit your doll. They don't have to be perfectly snug to look good. I have started looking into methods to make my own eyes recently though because I want an odd color. I was thinking about making a Gambit (XMen) doll and the whites of his eyes are black. First I looked around at various customizers to see if anyone did that sort of thing, but didn't see much, then I randomly scrolled eBay (without any real hope) and came across decoy eyes.
http://cgi.ebay.com/12-PAIR-6MM-AQU...hZ006QQcategoryZ50253QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem
These have just the center of the eye without white around them. So I'm thinking now that I could press one of these into the front of an eye mold and then pour black resin on top of it to create the desired effect. Also, they're pretty cheep! I haven't tried this yet, I only discovered decoy eyes last week, but I think it stands a good chanse of working. The big thing is remembering to order the size that you want the lense to be, not the size that you want the finished eye to be.

 

Well, I made Trey-Nayan's eyes out of femo/sculpy with beads pressed in for the color. However, they're not round like normal doll eyes and they're molded to fit his awkward eye sockets.

 

Found this link to a moldbeing sold on Ebay, don't know if it's worth anyone's time... seems to be suited for resin/polyclay casting:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Make-doll-eyes-...1166791QQihZ007QQcategoryZ11692QQcmdZViewItem

I've actually got a template for polyer clay balls and sizes in in MM, link to what I have below:

http://jollystore.net/catalog.php?i...?page=1&category=Tools%20for%20Polymer%20Clay

Hope that helps.

 

hahahaha the first eyes i ever made were done in tinfoil XD. Ironically enough tho they looked really cool...or that could just be me lol. And that was the end of my eyemaking experience....

 

You can make molds for doll eyes pretty easily if you get a cheep pair of acylics off ebay. I got a three dollar pair of 18cms before I started Robin's head to use as refference for him. They aren't very pretty if you turn them at any angle but head on, but they're the right size and I got a perfectly smooth mold of them very easily. I put durham's rockhard in there and made eye-blanks to use while i was sculpting/carving. I made the mold with silicone and so I can use it for resin pretty easily too.

 

well, I make eyes out of some kind of fast drying clay (no idea what's the name in English) I use mold to have them nicely round (at least half of them is round ) then I paint them with colour ink and put a lot of thick varnish, with many layers they look really nice ^____^

 

Hi, feel free to view my tutorial.... at

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/46016885/

not a good tutorial but hope u like it.

btw my english is not very gd, hope u don't mind...

 

what do you use for the lens ?

 

That's what I wanna know too.

 

that's really cool!

 

Semi circle plastic len (with sliver coating) u can buy in one packet...

To remove the sliver coating on the len... use nail remover but be careful it will melt the len....

or Teddy bear eye... =p

 

Ahhh, now i get it, the gem things i can buy from hobbycraft !!!
Thank you so much Oda

 

Maybe some of these might work too?
http://www.vandykestaxidermy.com/category/1/

Someone else posted this on another thread a while ago. It has a lot of cool taxidermy eyes.

 

Oh god! Sheep eyes! *terrified* They're just so creepy!

 

you can byu spheres and put the retin in the center with glue, ant the make a protection with smalt

 

seriously, van dyke's is awesome. I got a pair of their show quality bobcat eyes for an anthro project of mine from a taxidermy shop here in town, and everything about them is gorgeous, right down to the fine veining. you can also get some kinds of their eyes with or without sclera (white part) depending on what effect you're going for.

 

here's an eye tutorial someone emailed me

http://translate.google.com/transla...fe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=/language_tools