General Tips

• Make sure your fabric is smooth; if it's fuzzy like fleece or felt, forget it!
• Paint both eyes at the same time! This keeps it consistent and equal.
• Always work from small to big; you can always add, but you can never remove!
• Be patient! I've worked on the eyes for at least an hour before.
• Use transparencies to get rich colour. The more layers you add, the richer the colour will get.
• DO NOT use large globs of paint.
• The key is COLOUR and CONTRAST.

Tips on Colour

okay, so here is how I lay out my palette:

• Black for the outline
• white for the eyeball
• Base colour which is the "eye colour" of the character
• A colour for highlights (usually white, but light yellows work well for greens and sometimes reds)
• A colour for the shades (dioxazine violet, ultramarine blue, and phthalo green work WONDERS!)

Here are some other random tips:

• Red is perhaps the toughest to work with since when you add white, it becomes pink! I would therefore recommend tinting a brown and using that for your highlight, or paint white in the highlighted area, and apply a very thin coat of red (dilute it with water; there's not need to whip out medium since the area is so small!!).
• Blues are my personal fave, so I've taken the time to "understand" them. Their nature is transparent, so it becomes very dull when tinted with white. Also, if you apply many layers, it will appear black. Therefore, to get a very rich colour, prime the area with white first, then apply a thin coat of blue (you don't even need to dilute it, since it's already very loose). I'm of course speaking about "single pigments"....Some blues are pre-mixed with white; in that case, it will most probably be opaque. (in the example of Hitsugaya, I was using a turquoise that was mixed with 2 different pigments. It was therefore opaque).