The book’s got information about facial expressions an the muscles that dictate them, and I’m at the part with the brow and how the frontalis muscles are like venetian blinds on the skull that pull the brow back and wrinkle the forehead.

As a note I love high shiny foreheads and side parts.  The mobile picture that I did yesterday (I didn’t post it here but through my instagram account) was also from lessons in the book, that one dealing with how movements of the eyebrow effect the folds of the eyelid.

If you have an instagram account look me up.  I’ve been doing digital painting on my ipod and uploading it to there.  It’s extremely satisfying, even with the tiny tiny screen, to be able to draw right onto the medium.  It feels closer to the work than my tablet does, and the results are surprising me.

The universe has been kind enough to send a little birdie telling me that an ipad is on the way to me, so that I will be able to do my sketching on a larger screen!

At first it made me almost angry, as this new perspective had muddied up my meanings.  To finish the piece I had to think about and accept the idea that  what’s bad could always be worse.  Furthermore that sometimes bad choices are still better choices, and that evil things can inadvertently do good.  It doesn’t make them less evil.  I don’t care how many earwigs and silverfish this guy eats, he’s still really creepy.