Artist Reply: Thanks....it's kind of a trick I developed in that I start with the eyes and work out....the face is the most detailed image and I get less and less detailed as I move away from it. That way, the viewer is drawn to the face. In art school my instructors hated that I did this...they wanted me to sketch the overall image first....well I have my method that I developed for this type of thing when I was a teenager and it still works.

Artist Reply: Thank you so much.....

Artist Reply: AW, SHUCKS.....and thanks a bunch!!!