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At this point all I'm doing is I'm refining that upper lid. I've cut the line down to
it and now I'm trying to reshape it so that it has that rounded form and so that it fits
into the body. Remember, I've been saving this, not cutting much away, but now I'm going
to have to start cutting it in near the upper part of the nose to start creating some roundness
this way while reshaping and refining that upper lid shape. Now it?s starting to protrude
as I shave the area above the lid, beginning to take on a rounder appearance. Very much a process of subtracting what we
don't want rather than thinking about it the other way in a more additive system where
we really want to leave enough there so that we can remove stuff and leave the basic shapes
that we need which are 2 spheres.
Now I'm actually carving into the eye itself to help try and refine some of that dimension,
now that the upper lids have established the basic form.
It's much better to work a little bit at a time and not worry about it than to try and
cut too much at once. There is no rush. The other thing is that we want to exaggerate
everything when we're carving. The upper eyelid for example is really very, very thin but
when you translate it to sculpture you have to make it appear deeper in order for the
light to do its job of creating the shape. So these upper lids, the distance between
the outer part and the inner part where it meets as the eye is probably in reality about
the same thickness as the real lid on my eyeball.