I'm doing my first Elk. The horns were too long so I added a 2x6 to the back of the form, on the very top. When I set the eyes, do I use the original form back or my new back angle?
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Set them so that the pupil is parrallel to th floor.
Thanks!
I've heard a LOT about this issue and I've had live deer to study. That pupil always stayed in the same relationship as the eyeball. Someone ANYONE, please tell me differently. I know the I can look up or down or cast my eye sideways with a round pupil but I can't rotate the eyeball in the eye socket. Neither can these animals because the nictitating memberane and scleral tissue hold it in place. Does the pupil actually rotate inside the eyeball? This is one I truly don't know and would like an EXPERT answer.
The sclera is part of the eye, basically where the iris stops, and on the other side of the limbus band. The nictitating membrane is simply the third eyelid, a front eyelid, if you will. Therefore, its a wiper for the eye surface and has nothing to do with securing the eye itself. When the head tilts and the eye adjusts, its the actual eye, the eyeball, that rotates. Think of it this way...the pupil stays parallel to the ground when the head is in its normal position, and as the head tilts down. The pupil then stays in line with the muzzle as the head tips up above normal. This, in my mind, suggests that the pupil is not floating within the eye itself, rather its the eye being rotated by the muscles that attach it and move it any other direction. If you look close, youll note that the veination within the iris stays with the pupil direction, and the veining within the sclera "moves" as the eye does.
I disagree partly Yoxy...I have read the pupil stays parallel with the ground in all cases other than when the animals head is tilted up.