Adding color to the eyeballs

Up to this point, we have not concerned ourselves with the color of our sculptures, but a small splash of color does wonders for our characters' eyeballs. Every vertex in a 3D model can store color information known as Vertex Colors. Vertex Colors can be painted with a special Interaction Mode called Vertex Paint mode. In this section, we'll learn how to apply color to eyeballs using Vertex Paint mode.

Getting ready

For this section, we will need a head sculpture with eyes that can be painted. Download the provided coloredEyes_Start.blend file here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Sculpting-the-Blender-Way/blob/main/Chapter07/coloredEyes_Start.blend.

Launch Blender, and open the .blend file. This scene comes with the sculpture that you can see in the following figure:

Figure 7.9 – The Colored Eyes example file prior to painting the eye color

She looks nice, but a little scary. Her eyes were created through...