A big eye in pencil. by fireangel
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Definitely worth using "Open full image in new tab" to get an idea of the detail level.
I finished another A1 size drawing today, at about 11:00am London time. It has the usual obsessive level of detail that I cannot help putting in my drawings. I had the great pleasure of showing it to an optician today and she loved it. I also showed it to the psychologist who encouraged me to start drawing again earlier this year, and I could see just from her face that she was delighted. I am now drawing almost as well as ever, and will not be stopping again. I stopped drawing back in 1997 after a successful exhibition and restarted after the psychologist encouraged me, back in about July this year, so I had to show her this. The secondary photo is a bit blurred but is just to show how big an A1 sheet of paper is for those who don't know.
I hope people here enjoy this rather limited version too; the actual drawing has a presence that you won't get from looking at these photos, but this is the best I can do unless you come to my exhibition next year. Oh and don't worry, I'll make plenty of noise about it when I have a date for that, so if you're anywhere near London, England, you could drop in and see the drawings face-to-face.
Comments (4)
lwperkins
Oh, this is amazing!! I can see (lol) why they loved it! It looks like a very artistic photo! I'm thinking if you had an interest in it you would have made lovely people textures, with that fine level of detail!
fireangel
I did actually make textures for people a few times, but for an animation house not for Renderosity. The figures were modelled in LightWave, animated in Maya and textured by me using Blender and PhotoShop CS3 — yes, it was a while ago!
Drawing this was fun as well as hard work. Making all the fine detail comes naturally, I am autistic and so obsessive about a lot of things, and when drawing my obsessiveness pays off because I will stay in front of my easel for as long as it takes without running out of patience.
lwperkins
That is the secret to success with fine art--I get too impatient!
eekdog
now that's keeping a eye on things. well done? ill feel like i'm being watched all night now.
RodS
O....M....G!!!
This is just......I'm at a loss for words here! Fantastic, amazing, magnificent... They all fall far short of describing this the way it deserves! The detail you've put into this is beyond words. It looks like a photo. The iris detail, the reflection, even the veins in the eyeball! Wow! It must have taken you months to create this - and worth every second!
I'm sending the link to this to my eye doctor - I'm sure it will blow his mind!
fireangel
Thank you Rod, I am glad you enjoyed it. It was between twenty-five and thirty hours of drawing, with the iris and the skin below the eye taking most of that time. I currently spend about three hours a day drawing, so something like this takes between eight and ten days. In person it has a presence that is hard to convey in a photo, just because it is an eye and it is so big. It's not recommended company for the paranoid ;-) Today I took this picture to another local optician's and the optician and the sales staff all loved it, so thinking of your optician or optometrist seems sound!
I hope to make even larger pictures starting next spring, when I will be able to build a new easel that can take a much larger drawing board. I hope for seven feet by five but I may have to settle for seven feet by four. As an interim measure I may find a larger board that fits on my current easel, perhaps two-and-a-half times this size. Then I have to find the time to put my obsessive level of detail into the resulting pictures — yikes!