Monday, June 22, 2009

...OUT


It's a good and interesting experience, drawing eyes...the business of it is implicitly emotional because of everything we associate with eyes ~ ie, the window to the soul, the first thing many of us notice about someone, the struggle to open the mind's eye, etc. Well-drawn eyes seem, more than any other feature, to bring life to whatever creature they belong to. Likewise, the absence of eyes is one of the more discomforting concepts to most folk, associated with ghosts, monsters, machines and creatures generally unwelcome. I still find them difficult to draw from imagination. But practice makes better, and better and better still.