Hey everyone, I've been foaming another head and I wanted to share a method to make follow-me eyes with craft foam walls look both smoother, and a little less obvious as to what the materials are.
This is time consuming and any gloss takes a while to completely cure, so don't do this in a rush- the Super Gloss Mod Podge I used has a 4 week cure time!
Build your follow-me eye as you would normally, then take a thick dollop of titanium white acrylic paint and paint it into the sharp corners of the eye walls. Do this in layers until the paint has filled up the crack, and then after it is all dried, paint over all the craft foam so it looks even. When this is done, paint some super gloss mod podge or similar gloss coating over the painted craft foam, and let it dry for a few days.
If there's any hot glue on the inside of your eye, paint a thin film of watered down dish soap and let it dry on the glue before painting over it- otherwise the glue is too slick for the paint to stick.
The eyes will still have a bit of a corner to them, but it's much less obvious. Here it is on my (one-eyed) WIP head-
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(And if your head has sclera that aren't white, make sure to test the color you mix up on scrap foam and let it completely dry before proceeding- acrylic paint always dries to a darker and duller color)
This is time consuming and any gloss takes a while to completely cure, so don't do this in a rush- the Super Gloss Mod Podge I used has a 4 week cure time!
Build your follow-me eye as you would normally, then take a thick dollop of titanium white acrylic paint and paint it into the sharp corners of the eye walls. Do this in layers until the paint has filled up the crack, and then after it is all dried, paint over all the craft foam so it looks even. When this is done, paint some super gloss mod podge or similar gloss coating over the painted craft foam, and let it dry for a few days.
If there's any hot glue on the inside of your eye, paint a thin film of watered down dish soap and let it dry on the glue before painting over it- otherwise the glue is too slick for the paint to stick.
The eyes will still have a bit of a corner to them, but it's much less obvious. Here it is on my (one-eyed) WIP head-
(And if your head has sclera that aren't white, make sure to test the color you mix up on scrap foam and let it completely dry before proceeding- acrylic paint always dries to a darker and duller color)