Painting eyes on miniatures made easy - Warhammer!

Painting eyes is secretly easy with this tool! Emil & Squidmar Miniatures dives deep in to the knowlege of painting eyes on miniatures of different sizes. Anything you might want to know about painting eyes on scale miniatures, warhammer, space marines, lord of the rings, painting busts etc.

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Micron Pen 003 (0.15mm):

The brush i use - Raphael 8404.

Anycubic i3 Mega (the 3D printer i use)

HARDER STEENBECK EVOLUTION SILVERLINE (the Airbrush I use)

Anycubic Photon (the Resin printer I use):

Emil On

Painting miniatures for your warhammer & d&d games. Age of sigmar and warhammer 40k. Space Marines, Space Wolves, Stormcast Eternals, beastclaw raiders, ogor mawtribes, cities of sigmar, chaos space marines, painting scale models, miniature busts! How to paint NMM. How to paint warhammer, how to paint d&D figures.

[bg]

I use a toothpick, cut the end off which gives it a nice circular look. Dip it in paint and gives me a perfect iris every time.

[JJJacey]

Also worth mentioning, if your character doesn't have red blood instead of using the reddish brown for the area around the eyeball you could use the color of their blood mixed with their base flesh tone.

[willthorson]

Another tip that works really well, whatever your strength is in painting left or right paint the eye like normal, your weak side, turn the head upside down and paint it. It actually works really well. I paint 1/35 and 1/16figure eyes that way.

[AristeidisKypriotis]

Micron pens of various sizes are also a decent hack for "painting" text on purity seals and similar areas if you have trouble doing it with a brush

[redhotswing]

I've been working on a beholder for a few days, and was a little daunted by the eyes. Someone on r/minipainting linked this video this morning, and I put the technique to use right away.. many times on the same model lol. Worked a treat! Thanks Emil :-)

[rickbruins]

If you have an old micron pen you can also use it to dip the tip in paint . I use one for the white. I also have a small metal toothpick which i use for really small spots. Just dip it in the paint.

[DPrintedTabletop]

Those eyes look so good, and that micron pen tip...amazing! I'm gonna try this. Thanks, Emil!

[AcoylteKraven]

12:11- I’m curious……. Why red-ish brown? Is it because of the pink-ish red corners of the eyes? I usually start with gray and then work my way up my shades of white! But I only use the pure white for the reflection!?!

[svenscholz]

After over 15 years you brought me back to Warhammer.. got pretty much no time for playing it rn. but just some painting after a stressful day at work or universty is just so relieving. Thanks for that! :')

[jackwhorton]

A tip that helped me for basic eye painting is once you've painted the white/off white of the eye ball, paint a dark line down the middle. When you then finish the skin around the eye that will sort out any over run and with the size that eyes are in warhammer, looks pretty good. Not as good as Emil's methods but a useful stepping stone nonetheless!

[TeeVeesGreatest]

well done bud! nice video. I also dip a pin into white to get the light relect spot on the eye. It works well and guards against over painting on the eye by accident. All the best!

[DustyTheKitty]

Having no depth perception, trying to paint eyes has been the absolute bane of my mini painting hobby.
Just ordered some 0.03mm pens off Amazon, looking forward to trying them out, cheers Squidmar!

[edsontarrillo]

Mate, you are so talented and helpful and also beautiful. Thank you, I'm starting to customizing my action figures and I'm following your tips

[RPRsChannel]

I have always used needles to paint: the eye color, a smaller one for the iris and a super fine point for the reflection.
The results have amazed people for decades, I have even won a competition where the eyes were especially mentioned.

[alejandromengualdiana]

el mejor vídeo sobre pintar ojos que he encontrado... con mucha diferencia!
Gacias!!

[AllyKazaamm]

Thanks for the micron pen tip! I have a buttload laying around from before I switched to digital art and now I can put them to good use!

[Accia]

For dotting tiny blobs into awkward crevices, you can try using a pin, paint won't stay dry long but you really dont need it if it's just for dotting, you could use this for the light reflections too

[HamboneWilson]

Way to hang in there while you were sick. Ironically it ended up being one of your most helpful technical videos imho

[RageBadgerGaming]

Definitely very helpful. Honestly your technique of just taking apart the eye and figuring out what it's made of, what colors to use and not just comic book black/white was worth noting.

[Tastylettuce]

Is it worth mentioning that your eyes are stunning? legit like an oil painting