I mentioned this in my post on the critiques board, but this is probably a better place to ask specifically. I'm having trouble with eyes.
Here's a carving I did a few days ago (this was my first attempt at a human), and the body's great, but the face is terrible. I've gotten some good advice on the face and pretty much fixed my problems there, except for the eyes. These were attempted with one of the Stohlman books right in front of me, and I followed his directions step by step, but apparently I didn't understand them correctly or something, because they're pretty bad.
I looked over the eyes in all of the tutorials on the front page, and those are very helpful as far as how to properly round out the eyeball, but none of the tutorials have pupils, which are pretty important on a recreation of a person, especially in a comic book style piece like this one. I'm finding that if I round the eye and then do the pupil (like I tried to do here) the pressure flattens it out, but if I do the pupil first it squashes the whole thing just enough to make the rounding process a LOT more difficult and still doesn't end up looking right.
Can anyone give me some pointers here?
Thanks,
Matt
