painting brown eyes and pale blueeyes advice

[faust18]

Hi im experimenting with painting eyes on my busts im wanting to mix it up a bit and paint brown eyes and pale blue eyes instead of the standard blue eyes ive been painting anybody lend me some advice using particular vallejo colours past either paint them brown or blue then use a light and shade colour im after particular colours to use for each please could any body throw me a bone , thanks mick

 

[housecarl]

This is good.
Carl.

 

[Gra30]

Hi
Sorry for all the images but these might help
They are 200mm, 75mm and 54mm, the eyes alone are taken blown up full screen size
I start with acrylics, black circle, light blue then pupil
I go over the blue blending oils and last highlight
I paint all eyes the same at all scales but I know there is some debate to how much to include in small scales
Hope this helps
Best wishes

 

[Gra30]

A couple more
I prefer blue eyes, any blue will do, I use Andrea basic blue and add a small amount of black
When adding the light blue a little grey tones it down slightly, if using acrylics just ignore the oil bit mentioned above. I only add it so it fits in with the rest that I paint in oils

 

[faust18]

Thanks carl and gra both your answers were very helpful I might give oils a blast following the tutorial for for the eyes even though im an acrylic painter ive a spare bust which im going to use as a "crash test dummy" to try the teqniques out before commit im going to try a lighter greyer blue and a hazel brown itl look a bit david bowie with one blue and one brown but itl give me the practice i need before going in on the bust.Thanks for the sterling advice fellas I appreciate you both taking the time and bother to help me out thanks , mick