How to Make Fake Glass Like Goblin or Fairy Eyes

If you are an OOAK doll sculptor you like to take a break every now and then from the stress of perfecting a sculpt and just have a little fun! That's where goblins come in! Here is a fairly simple way to create some eyes for your goblins!

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 2 or 3 mm glass beads, white or a milky transparent color.
• Acrylic paint
• Dowel rods (or the ends of your paint brushes!)or even different sized beads!
• Bakable clear glaze
• Toothpicks
• An Oven
• Excess piece of clay

1. 
    

   Take an old piece of clay that you aren't going to use and roll it out in a long roll and press it down onto the surface you are working. Take your small glass beads and attach them to the ends of the toothpicks, make sure the end of the toothpick doesn't stick out through the bead, if it does cut it off to where it's inside the bead.

2. 
    

   Stick the tooth picks into the piece of clay in a row and get your paint out. I like to start with a dark color first, if I am going to do blue eyes I pick out a dark blue color and with the end of my paint brush, biggest dowel I am going to use or another bead on the end of a stick, I stick it into the paint and test it on one first to make sure that the iris isn't going to be too big for the bead, if it is use a smaller brush/dowel. Do all of the eyes in the row, trying to keep them all the same size. (I prefer to use the bead because it's rounded already, you start with the same size bead as the one you are making for the eye and work your way down!)

3. 
    

   After your first paint layer dries you want to pick out a lighter shade of blue (if that's the color you are using) and use a smaller dowel/brush/bead to apply your paint to the inside of the dark blue circle you created earlier. Do this to all the of the eyes and let that layer dry.

4. You can use a smaller dowel/brush/bead for this step and apply a little white to that light blue layer of paint. It adds depth to your eyes to have it in layers.

5. Now it's time to do the pupil, your eye is so small by now there are no smaller dowels/brushes! So, take one of your tooth picks and dip it into the black paint and dab it to the bead hole in the center of the eye.

6. After your pupil dries you can add a bake safe glaze to the eyes and put them in the oven (on the old clay piece) and bake them at 275 degrees for 5 minutes to bring the glaze out in them! They are ready to use!

Tips & Warnings

• Always work in a well ventilated area.