#also eye style test

[evanostic]

it's my turn to draw background characters!

if aylover can do it, i can!

i just think they're so pretty :3 i gave them names redesigned them a little...

[zombvibes]

*spreads my suzberd agenda* *spreads my suzberd agenda* *spreads my suzberd agenda* *spreads my suzberd agenda* *spreads

*this isn’t romantic this is 100% platonic (though i feel like this is obvious…)

[eeveekitti]

peak friendship

[sysig]

Little guys (Patreon)

[corset]

Look at my boy

[dreamypumpkins]

Intimidation (Perspective Practice)

[keeps-ache]

been telling my siblings 'you would NOT make it in vulcan academy' when they do smth goofy recently and nobody's been able to refute lol

[cinnabundolly12]

[enemro]

Some style tests I doodled while trying to figure out how I prefer to draw them.

[letmesleepy]

Woah dude! You dead or something?

[haunted-doodles]

its been one of those days. pass the Nim doodles sheet

[aurtistic-ruby]

designing a talksprite for the still-in-development polycule gaming channel. unsure about whether to add a torso

image description below:

image description: three nearly identical drawings of a girl’s head. she has white-tan skin, black lipstick, a heart-shaped marking above her right eye, a dark purple headscarf with a fuchsia cap underneath, and glasses with very pronounced horn-rimmed frames.

the only difference between the three images is her eyes. in the first, her eyes are open and she has fuchsia irises. in the second, her irises are heart shaped. in the third and final one, her eyes are replaced with solid black upside down letter V’s, representing the ^w^ emoticon, to signify that she is smiling to the point of closing her eyes. end of image description.

[minatobaqua]

idk what to think of this

so i tried drawing slightly realistically for the first time since i was like 9.. there's also a picture of my usual artstyle so that you can understand how hard this is for me lol

[pixelated-jellifishi]

breaking news: i am still not normal about dino lady help

[modpoppy]

somehow ended up doing econ hw like this

[thylacines-toybox]

Hey, I found a beanie boo that I liked the design of but I can't stand those giant uguu eyes. Do you think it would be possible to replace them with smaller safety eyes akin to the old beanie babies? If yes, do you have any advice?

I was gonna answer this in a normal way, but then I got curious about trying it for myself and thought I might as well demonstrate!

So, I went and picked up a guy from the supermarket. The selection there was pretty barren today but I found a decent test subject:

Eye replacement procedure below!

(First of all, to my friend who loves beanie boos, I am so sorry for this lmao)

So! First I opened up the closing seam on his back. However, I found an extra mesh barrier inside! Clearly this is to prevent bean escape since this is the most likely seam to accidentally pop open through play. This would be a bit annoying to work around so I just sewed it back up and went in the back of the head instead…

Opened and unstuffed the head…

…And turning it inside out to get to the backs of the eyes. Whoa, these plastic washers are the biggest I’ve ever seen!! Cutting through them will take some work!

Please be very careful of your fingers cutting through these!! Be careful not to cut the fabric around the eye too, but mostly be careful of yourself!

Anyway grrrrrrr attack attack slice slice grrrr

They’re out! With a little glue I think the washers would be able to hold on perfectly well again. I’ll keep these eyes to reuse on something where they’ll be a bit more proportional!

The washers on these eyes are particularly cup shaped, fitting around the back of the eye and holding the fabric tightly against them. Now that the eyes are removed, this has left imprints on the fur!

Plenty of brushing and rumfling will help to fix the creased and flattened areas of fur, and wetting the fur or gently steaming over a hot cup of water should help too. It might take a little time!

(Also, I did make a little cut in the cheek while removing a washer, oops! No worries, that can be stitched up.)

Now we can try on a few new eye styles! Restuff the head for now so you can see how they’ll look.

I have a few sizes of solid black, from teeny dots to absolute tbh creature…

These blue eyes were a little scary… no thanks!

I even have some glittery ones like the original, but smaller! Pretty nice actually!

And even some googly eyes hehehe!

But my favourite eyes were some basic 9mm black ones! They are placed a little funny here, but the position will change a little bit…

The holes left by the original eyes were very big, so a couple of stitches are needed on each one to tighten them up to fit the new eyes. I stitched the top outer corners, to move the holes down and inwards a bit. If you wanted, you could even sew them closed completely and make new eye holes elsewhere!

Unstuff again and pop those new eyes in!

Restuff! You might actually need to add a little extra stuffing, as the fabric not being so pulled around the eyes any more will mean it is a little ‘baggier’.

Then sew the head closed again and that’s about it! The fur is still a little creased around mine, but I’ll keep working at it and it should become less visible.

To add a tiny bit more shape to the big round head, I also did a touch of threadsculpting. I ran a thread from the corner of each eye to below the chin and back, just pulling the eyes in a tad more. You might decide you don’t need this!

And there we go! Hope you’ll try it yourself!