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So, of late I've picked up my vague artistic inclinations, doing more sketching and painting than I've done in forever.
And I've started trying to overcome my inability to draw faces. This is a challenging thing - faces are difficult, and getting *close* isn't enough - that just takes you into Uncanny Valley territory. So, I have many, many terrible portrait sketches to do before I reach "able to do it" status.
I'm making progress - currently my sketches have started to look like they're sketches of actual people, rather than :wrongness:, but they don't look like the people I sketched - they look like Random People. Which is potentially useful but not really what I'm going for.
Some notes:
- The hardest single feature to draw is the nose. Mouths are hard too. Eyes are tricky but not nearly as tricky as noses, because at least eyes have some clear lines about them to work from - noses have NOTHING.
- Epicanthic folds are actually extremely subtle.
The epicanthic fold is the arrangement of skin over an eyelid that, depending on your perspective, makes an otherwise-normal eye look Asian, or by its absence makes an otherwise-normal eye look non-Asian.
The difference, when you're looking closely, is ridiculously tiny. In fact, the distinctions in people's features, between "them" and "not them", are ridiculously small and subtle.
The fact that we can recognise people at a distance based only on appearance is *weird*.
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