Ack! I mean, thank you!
I meant to take this one down; I've worked on it SO much since.
And umm..... thank you for the very kind comment! I love comments, just like cookies; I nibble them so they last a long time. Delicious!
'BYE! MERRY CHRISTMAS!
.... you're still here? Oh, you asked a question... you were waiting for me to answer it? Right.. well, would you think less of me if I told you that the eyes were, here, about 75% fake?
They photographed terribly, so I photoshopped them.
In this pic:
[link]...They are 100% real, just dark enough that you can't see how crappy they actually are. *G* They're just straight-pins, the kind with round plastic heads, stuck into the Sculpey. I cut the metal pin down so it wouldn't stick out of the back of his head, then I lightly drew a pupil and iris on with a very soft pencil.. my whole motivation was to get rid of the blank alien look, but it ended up looking rather cool! Cool, assuming you can't see them clearly.
If you can, you'd see that they're really very blobby.
I hope I haven't ruined the magic for you!
Thanks again for the kind words!