Jon's Eyes
(The ones he draws. Settle down.)
A few weeks ago, we did a post on the evolution of our book Sam & Dave Dig A Hole, which, as far as I could remember, was the first time I’d drawn human people with eyeballs in a book. That is to say, eyes with whites and pupils, that weren’t just kind of elongated black dots. In the making of that post we actually ran across a piece of art I’d done early on in the book’s development where the characters had dot eyes instead of eyes with whites and pupils. The change was deliberate, for a few reasons.
This week I thought it’d be fun to do a post about the different eyes I’ve used in these books that I’ve illustrated, and why I used them. They are a powerful tool, and what I’ve found is that it’s not so much about how good you are at drawing eyes, but more what you want them to do for you as a storyteller, and the choices you make before you start drawing at all.