Fayric wrote:The elf look really nice. Really hit the nostalgic spot.
The trick with painting eyes is first to have a brush with a sharp point (not neccicarily the smallest brush because they cant hold as much paint and make precicion work harder).
Second, its better to make big white blotches for eyes first, and then try to frame them (paint around them) with skin colour until you get the size you want. This is much easier than trying to get both eyes to line up with a one-shot perfect stroke of white.
Yep. Eyes and then faces are the first thing I do on any mini. If I screw up, stripping the paint off the face won't screw up the paint anywhere else.
White first, across the whole eye. Just keep it thin enough to prevent the eye detail from disappearing. Then a vertical stripe of black or dark brown down the middle - people generally don't have their eyes wide open to show much of a curve to the iris, especially at mini scales.
From there, use a dark flesh tone to shape the eyes and provide deep shadows for the face. Hightlight up from there, leaving as thin an outline of the base color around the eyes as you can as 'eyelashes'.