Reflection

The original artwork looks somewhat bizarre to me and I start to understand where the weirdness comes from after removing all the eyelashes :) Then, deepening the outline and white part of the “eye”, I think that my work also has relatively sufficient stereoscopy for viewers to experience the feeling of both seeing and being seen at the same time. I learned that the artist painted the shadow to guide our eyes to focus on the scene of sky and the center black spot. Compared to the dark background, the brighter sky looks at a distance and thus creates an illusion that the “eye” functions as a window. Besides, The False Mirror generates a sense of peace with artist’s exquisite skills. In order to imitate those fine and smooth strokes and the texture of the artwork more exactly, I will try using the pen tablet to control the brushes better. The current strokes in my work look too rough to make all colors compatible, which to some extent distract the viewers focus.

P.S. It is very amazing to see how Photoshop has been upgraded to imitate the stroke and texture effect of real materials and brushes as fine as possible. That makes the digital version more similar to the original artwork.