When I made this drawing, I didn’t know how to make a face from all the circles and stars. But when I finished it, I knew it was done and would be named after the Billy Idol song “Eyes Without a Face” because that is exactly what it was. This drawing was made at a tough and confusing point in my life. A time when what I felt and saw seemed so real but was artificial in effect. Like looking at someone whose eyes are telling you a different story than the one truthfully playing out in front of you. 

I consider myself an idealistic person. So much so that it hurts me and makes things so blurry that I can’t help but mentally squint and make something beautiful out of the ugliness I am refusing to see. While writing helps me make sense of what is real, art is where I can express how I wish things were. To me, this drawing was meant to feel like looking at someone or something magical. Someone or something surreal and deceptive and unreasonable. Our faces and our bodies make reason out of the things in life that seem to lack it. Like love. Like our souls. When we are frameless and bound by nothing, we are left trying to understand things we can never really comprehend. Like lies. Like magic. Like eyes without a face.

~Nirvika Dhanasri

>>I made this in May and my art has been improving so much since I started drawing and painting again in January. But still, this is one of my favorite drawings I have ever made and I hope you love it too! Btw I used Prismacolor color pencils on this piece.