Gokufan's Celestial Genesis: Jingwei

With Jingwei’s body finished I moved on to the eyeball. It’s basically a big orb with a large eyeball sticking out of the top, left, and right sides. I started by painting the right side eye.

First I coated the recesses and the surrounding areas with gory red. I tried to give the eye a bit of three dimensionality by highlighting up through desert yellow and on to white on the top of the eyes, while substituting basic skintone for the desert yellow on the bottom half of the eyes.

After that I made some fine lines with a mix of basic skintone and white for a bit of a bloodshot look.

Then I coated the entire iris and pupil in black. I then did a gradient of meaty ochre at the top, green in the middle, and light turquoise at the bottom of the iris. I added a little variation to the iris by doing radiating lines of the base colors mixed with a bit of white.

I finished the eye by coating the pupil in black and using white to paint a few reflections.

For the metal surrounding the eye I tried an nmm gold similar to Jingqei’s armor. I’ve never done such a large smooth nmm surface before, so I tried added a bit of noise to make it more interesting.

I wasn’t quite satisfied with this look, so I tried something a bit different with the metal surrounding the eye on the other side later on in the process.

As you can see I painted the rest of the sphere at some point, but I’m running out of room in this update and I don’t think it’s really interesting enough to merit an update on its own, so I guess for the next update I’ll move on to the base.