Embedding the Eyes
1. Once you have made your iris it can be embedded into the white of the eye. This is what you will need…
2. Take some white clay, preferably mixed with a little mix quick to make is softer, stickier and stronger. Make a small ball and cut it in half so that you have two equal slices big enough to cover the iris.
3. I use glass pin heads for this as they are heat resistant, cover them with a THIN layer of clay, a thick layer will make your eye too big at the end. Flatten the top by turning it upside down and pressing slightly on a flat, clean surface.
4. Cure them for about 15 minutes
5. Apply glue to the tops of the pin heads once cured.
6. Attach your iris and lens to the pin head and allow to dry.
7. Cover the irises with a little liquid sculpey, just a tiny bit, hardly anything. You should not be able to see any liquid.
8. Once they are dry take another small ball of the white clay and cut it into two equal pieces just big enough to cover the whole iris in a thin layer of clay. Press one half flat and lay it over the whole iris and blend it in like this…
9. Once you have made a round white ball with the clay you covered your iris with start to gently rub it away with your thumb where the iris is until you have a small round opening, keep shaping it until it is a round iris…
10. This is what they should look like once finished…
11. …from the side…
12. Once sculpted into the face, you can use acetone on the face when smoothing with no worry of your eyes misting over…
13. Once you have painted the face you can coat these eyes with a thin layer of varnish to give them a moist realistic look.
