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Is it possible to someday sell PYO eyes separately in the store? When I buy a PYO I never know which color to choose and would be very willing to pay a couple extra dollars for some more eyes to choose the color after it has been painted. I ordered a bag full of eyeballs from a taxidermist site, but they’re not nearly as pretty as the Windstone colors. I’ve talked to a few people on here that have had that same “eye dilemma” when ordering. Is that a possibility? Thank you! 🙂
Kujacker wrote:I think someone else mentioned this before. Not sure what the answer was 😕
If this was brought up before, I apologize! I tried to research the topic before I asked, but the search bar says that “PYO” and “eyes” and very common words on the forum, try again :scratch:
I’ve run into the same kind of thing. Sometimes the paint job mutates and the eyes you originally picked don’t work any more; other times this really great idea comes up, and no eyes on hand match it. It gets frustrating, although I will say that the challenge has occasionally led to an interesting solution (usually involving interference paint, a lot of squinting, and some swearing).
There are some nice eyes available through dreamingtreestudios, but they are definitely not as thick as Windstone eyes and it’s harder to get them “focused.” Windstone eyes are fabulous for the way you can set them in the sockets and bam! Dragon or griffin or ki-rin is looking right at you, eyes perfectly focused on you no matter how you turn the piece. They also fit, and fill, the sockets just right.
That said, if you are not as picky-choosy about eye focus as I am (it’s a thing with me), you can check out the Dreaming Tree website. She has a lot more eye colors and styles available than are shown, but that will give you an idea, and if you write and ask she’ll e-mail you the updated “catalog.” There are eyes with two, three, and even four colors; slit-pupilled eyes; mecha eyes; metallic, semi-metallic, and plain eyes. Other folks on the Forum have used her eyes, with some very nice results. I’ve just ordered some more eyes from her; I’m trying to figure out what the perfect size is for Windstones, and I’ll also be experimenting to see if I can make the eyes work better by putting a little putty in the sockets behind them. I still think it’s going to end up being like the Wall-Eyed Goof-Up Old Warriors, though: an eye that’s too thin just won’t have that wonderful illusion of focus, no matter what you do with it. 🙄
Thanks Barrdwing!! I have checked out that site before & she has some GREAT color choices, but I agree nothing seems to fit as well as the Windstone eyes. They just drop in there so perfectly. I thought about getting some from dreaming tree, but I got confused by the low profile, standard, etc, and didn’t know what I would need. Since a lot of people get eyes from there for their PYOs maybe they could recommend what I could use 😕
skeeterdeee wrote:Is it possible to someday sell PYO eyes separately in the store? When I buy a PYO I never know which color to choose and would be very willing to pay a couple extra dollars for some more eyes to choose the color after it has been painted. I ordered a bag full of eyeballs from a taxidermist site, but they’re not nearly as pretty as the Windstone colors. I’ve talked to a few people on here that have had that same “eye dilemma” when ordering. Is that a possibility? Thank you! 🙂
I don’t know.
I will ask. If I don’t get back to you, remind me !I second that – I’ve only got one pyo coming to work on, and I wish I could just order 3 or 4 different colors and see what looks best. would save me all the second-guessing myself *after* placing the order 🙄
So far I’ve just used the “standard profile” eyes from Dreaming Tree, which are a thicker style, but they’re still much thinner than Windstone eyes. To counter this, it looks as if ordering them slightly larger than you think you’ll need is the best. 9mm eyes fit the small dragon sockets well. They’ll do for griffins, but I’m going to try a set of 10mm on a griffin next. The semi-metallic paint style is absolutely gorgeous and my favorite of the three offered. Pupils: round seems to be easier to set because you don’t have to worry about accidentally tilting them out of true, whereas a slit pupil eye would take some fiddling to get just right. Slit pupil width also seems to vary slightly depending on what “series” eye you get: some have fairly wide slits, while others have narrow ones.
So far everything I’ve ordered from her has been very nicely made. I can definitely recommend her work, even though I have yet to actually use a pair in a PYO! I started out with an order of 8mm eyes for dragons, and they’re just too small. So I ordered some 9mm that will be in in a few weeks. But so as to not waste the 8mm eyes, I’ve been mucking around with sculpting materials lately, trying to build a few little dragons. Slow going! I have no idea what I’m doing yet. 😕
Barrdwing wrote:There are some nice eyes available through dreamingtreestudios, but they are definitely not as thick as Windstone eyes and it’s harder to get them “focused.”
I was wondering if this was why the PYOs I’ve seen in photos with the special eyes looked “off” to me. I noticed the eyes looked set way to deep and the eyes didn’t engage (one of my favorite thing about Windstones). Makes sense now that I know it’s because they are much flatter.
I don’t like the special order eyes for those reasons so add my squeek* for additional eyes being offered for purchase by Windstone. 🙂
if anyone wants a TON of dreamingtree’s eyes in various sizes and colors…probably around 200+ pairs…feel free to pm me. I used to use them in my sculpts, but in the past couple years I just sculpt the eyes instead, and so I have boodles of them that never got used. I’m not sure what sizes are used in the pyos…I never used them for that…but I could look and see what sizes I have for anyone that is interested. They are good for all sorts of projects, I saw someone sculpt a starfish with an eye in the center for a pendant that looked incredible.
On the subject of the pyo eyes…When I paint them I sometimes end up with a different “feel” to a piece than I’d originally thought, and having a different eye color available to see which suits a piece best would really appeal to me too. I’d prefer the ones made by windstone because I know they’d have a perfect fit…I’m fussy that way about things fitting just right….. I’d most likely buy a couple extra sets in my fave colors to insure the best paint job/eye color matchup.
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