The eyes never lie
Nothing stands out on someone’s body like their beautiful eyes. Pretty eyes are hard to ignore because it is human nature to see beautiful things.
About seven years ago, my first week of high school, I sat next to this girl in one of my classes. She had the most beautiful eyes. I noticed that right away.
I doodle all sorts of eyes in my sketchbook all the time. It’s what I draw, when I don’t know what to draw. I drew hers and she loved it. Since then, I’ve done it couple more times and we became good friends.
This is the one I did most recently.
There’s a thing about eye paintings. It captures not just the physicality of the eye, but also the emotions it can convey. Joy, fear, anger, confusion, curiosity and so much more. It is a gateway to the soul in a way. You can tell a lot about a person based on a look into their eyes.
I loved this quote from the Scarface movie that goes “The eyes, Chico, they never lie.”
It means that the eyes can reveal the truth of a person’s feelings. Even when their words or body language suggest otherwise. When looking at a painting, the eyes make you wonder. It draws you in, it has a mystery behind it, and that is what I love about it.
I love the complexity of them, the detail. There is so much to pay intention to, within a small area. You have the skin texture, the eyelashes and their shadows, the iris which contains so much detail, the pupil too.
My favorite thing when painting eyes though, and I always save it for the end, is the little reflection in the eye, the white light in the iris. It is a final touch, that I think, makes an ordinary painting come to life.
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