image essay #2

This drawing is a replica of M.C. Escher’s famous eye drawing. In this picture they do a good job of using the gray scale. They also do an excellent job of balancing positive and negative space around the eye, which really holds your eye to the center of the drawing. Thus makes you focus on the skull reflecting in the center of the eye. The glair in the left corner of the eye makes your eye move around the picture and keeps the picture from being stagnant. The texture in the eyelashes and in the right corner of the eye makes the picture feel more lifelike. Then your eye begins to wander downward towards the bottom of the page and you begin to see the upper part of the cheek. But the skin is not that of a real person, the skin seems to be flaky and dissipating. As if it was to be the skin of a real dead person.