roll out some apoxie sculpt on smooth finished cardboard as ths will keep it clean...
youll want to get it as long as the eye ring ant tapered at the ends for ease of blending...
trim the roll to length
use a small tool to apply the ring to the front corner where it will later be blended with the caruncle ...
a small soft paint brush takes over now, and keeping the brush moist not soaking, stroke the eye ring into place..
the roll in place and now needs flattening a little and blending the lower edge
use the tool once more to help blend the lower edge of the eye ring if need be..
Let me introduce the "micro knife" by Ronco
made from a carpet pin cut off and grinded/filed to an angled edge......
use the micro knife to start the texture detail....
the glands are now textured in but need softening which you accomplish by soft continual brushing with a moinst brush shortly the apoxie sculpt will be fluid on the surface and will settle into the revices softening and reducing them .. you can get as subtle as you need even tiny mammals can be done this way.....
THE SECRET IS!~~~~~~~let the apoxie sculpt harden for about a half hour after getting it on the eye and shaped...If you let it set up a little, it will not distort so easily giving you a crisp pattern..... This was just a demo eye, and it still needs refinement and more evenly spaced gland textures, but it was just for the demo.... But dats how I do em.....
so, one more time,, let the apoxie sculpt harden awhile before attempting to texture, the more subtle the textue desired, the harder it sould be, then use soft wet brushing repeating as much as needed for the look desired....
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