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#7: Jeniffer's Eyes
One reason to hate drawing while riding in a car is that it's hard. One thing to like about it is that it's an opportunity to think much longer on it than you normally would. I did the top picture of this image just messing around trying action poses, which are sort of a weakness of mine, trying to sketch out one of the most cliched ones I could think of from memory. Finishing it though I noticed a problem that I've had for awhile now, and that that her eyes, while looking ok, didn't seem to function as they normally do in the rest of the strip.

Normally, when she looks left, the curve is on the right, when she's looking right, the curve is one the left. So logically if she's looking straight forward then the curve should be right between those two points in the center, right?

This is one of those instances though where trying to make parts of my strip more realistic runs directly into conflict with the stylized way I prefer to draw. I have some truly embarrassing sketches from years ago where I painfully work out a realistic human figure and basically pasted a cartoon head on.

Here it comes out in the aspect of what the heck is that thing traveling back and forth that's acting as her eye? And why is it that if it's normally on the opposite side, does it suddenly point in the same direction in this instance?

I think I've settled on that if 'S's eyes are sort of like the pupil moving back and forth, Jeniffer's are a bit more like the iris, which is more or less visible depending on which way they are pointing. This also fits a bit better with the Mr. Snodgers Neighborhood Jeniffer eye they were based on coincidentally. Part of me still can's say whether I like the old way or the new one better, but there's no question that the new one feels more correct.

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