Those Eyes, Those Curls

The kind of face you remember — steady eyes above a crown of curly hair, drawn in charcoal.

The story

This portrait set out to hold two competing subjects at once: a pair of eyes that refuse to look away, and a head of hair that refuses to sit still. The curls are drawn as mass and shadow rather than individual strands, letting the eyes carry the focus. It is tenderness with a little chaos, kept.