Brand New Eyes

[Khyujo]

so, bought these handsome devils awhile back from Mr. Wainwright (Faust Steamer), but I'm not exactly sure where to start, (seeing as how I'm still a bit of a NOOB to Maya) and I've never created ANYTHING before. So, any help would be greatly apprieacted.  

[Amethyst Jetaime]

You should have gotten a map of some kind with it.  You will probably be more successful making a texture for them using a graphics program like Photoshop or Gimp, which is free. 

Open the map in you graphics program as the base layer and use it as a guide to create the texture, which you can do either by 'painting' it on layers on top of the map, or by using a photo of a real eye on a layer above your map and altering it to fit the map.  You can also modify the photo using different techniques and filters. Your best results will be if you make several layers for the entire texture.

You can google tutorials to help you with your graphics program if you never used one, and there are probably tutorials for creating eye textures too.