Eyes

Each year, I have a ritual of creating an eye drawing. I have been doing this since 2009. It all started in my final year of highschool, when I decided to make an entire wall of eye drawings. I noticed how much progress I made by drawing an eye over and over again. 

Since then, it has become a benchmark to see my development in drawing. It has become a familiar ritual and now has become a comforting thing to return to. 

I push myself each year to keep the eye conceptually different so it still challenges me in a new way, such as including unexpected elements from gummy bears, a toy duck and hummingbirds. 

The detail required for an eye drawing makes it tedious and it requires determination and perseverance to complete. Sometimes it has become hard to keep it fresh and conceptually rich, but each year my eye drawings have taught me something new. 

Nowadays, drawing the eye helps me to stay playful. It has taught me the importance of how tiny, incremental steps can lead to progress. They have become a golden anchor for me.