Modification Opening Eyes: Widening Sleeping or Dreaming Eyes

Thank you for your swift reply. So if I want to open a sleeping faceplate without eyewells I'd need an eye beveller? I assume I'd bevel the eye wells first from the inside of the head to thin out the resin where the eyes are supposed to be?

I'm just wondering how you decide where you need to start beveling since you have no guide in the back of the head to see where the eyes need to go...

 

Siara, no problem, glad to help! (:
Yes, you first sand/bevel the wells before opening the eyes, or carving form the front. This will make it a lot easier to open the eyes and also make it easier to carve the eye shapes without too much damage. (:

You can always look at other heads you already own, to see how the eye wells are positioned inside the head, in relation to the eye opening. However, I find that eyes look best if the eye well is position so that the eye opening is right in the center of where the eye well sits. Here's a great illustration of what I mean, only don't look if you are easily disturbed by illustrations of human anatomy. I find illustrations are better at describing things I can't in words. DX

 

Very helpful, thank you