So, about those eyes....

[Kitkumi]

When you are painting eyes, how do you go about painting the second eye on to a pony? I've been working on a custom now for a few weeks, finally painted her first eye earlier this week and it came out perfect. It's exactly what I wanted.
 
But now I'm having a very hard time of making myself paint that second eye DX I know that I'm not going to get nearly as close to what my first eye looks like, which is ok, but I'm affraid that I'm -royally- going to mess up.
 
Does anyone else ever encounter these fears, and anyone have any secret pony-customizing tips for eyes?

[mana-maiden]

When painting the eye whites, paint both eyes whites on both eyes, at the same time. When you paint the irises/pupils, do it on both eyes at the same time; when doing the eyeline/lashes, do those on both eyes at the same time... other than that, stop frequently and look at the pony square straight in the face from the front angle of so it's staring straight at you and let natural symmetry aesthetics set off your balance sensors.

[Kitkumi]

I'll have to remember that for my next custom so I don't end up in this position again lol. Maybe she just needs an eye patch, that would solve the problem

[Morosan]

lol. an eyepatch could work. hihi. 

otherwise I agree with Mana-Maiden.
I also like to gently draw the outlines, or at least put little dots as keypoints, with a pencil so that I'm positive the eyes end up on the same level.

[Colorscapesart]

Good advice!  I often notice one eye turns out slightly better than the other one no matter what I do

[TickledPink]

Oh man I understand that.  I actually love painting the eyes, but I do run into times where the second eye just doesn't match up and it's frustrating! So long as it isn't a FBR, I actually will wipe eyes off and redo them as many times as I need to.

One tip I have for you is to do both eyes at the same time...that way it just gets em done and out of the way!

[mana-maiden]

I often notice one eye turns out slightly better than the other one no matter what I do

That is absolutely 100% true about all eyes; something that is very important in keeping an artist from stressing too much, is to keep in mind that there are A LOT of mass machine-produced Hasbro ponies out there with bat-crazy crooked eyes. On my current project I'm working on, I have a core 7 g3 Pinkie Pie and one eye was so "RE-WERP" that I made a point to completely paint over the eye enough to where I couldn't see original eye at all, to keep myself from making the same mistake, lol!

The same thing goes for butterfly wings too; their symmetry is never perfect on both wings. If you study a pair of actual butterfly wings, there's always a imperfection that makes them not the same, but they're still beautiful.

[TickledPink]

That's kinda the fun thing about real life though, hardly anything is perfectly symmetrical, and I rather like seeing things that don't look like they were churned out of a factory. Gives them more charm.

[Kitkumi]

Lol, I've seen some of the things that the Hasbro machines turn out!
 
Thanks to everyone here I decided to stop letting my pony intimidate me and tackled that second eye.... I like it better than the first! They aren't exactly the same, but like ImmortalPanda said, they have a nice charm about them. I was just scared that I was going to completely mess up her entire head by painting a -really- bad eye