It's really only until you try drawing a face that you realise just what a marvellous enterprise it is. Last year, about this time, I began drawing animal faces, specifically birds, but not with any great detail. This year those 'animal faces' are specifically human...
I recall Picasso writing somewhere that he was always amazed at how a tiny line could express the character of a person. I would go one far and say that I am amazed at how a mere dot can convey not just an expression on someone's face (or indeed a whole face in itself) but, if you look at with the necessary imaginary distance in between, a galaxy, or if you could sufficiently remove yourself from 'it', the very universe itself. Now isn't that something magic? Or. at the very least, something to perk your curiosity?
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