The impossibility of painting circles

Today I tried to draw eyes. Not wonky eyes…good-looking realistic eyes. Couldn’t do it. The right eys was bigger than the left, or the left was slanted up and the right was slanted down. I resolved not to quite until I drew a pair of eyes that didn’t look wonky. But, despite my “I can do this” determination, I ran out of time and have nothing to show today. Normally I would post a picture, no matter how incomplete, no matter how crude, no matter how unappealing, but today, I have nothing that I want to show.

For the last three years I’ve been drawing cartoon animal with round eyes. When I used Procreate, there was the circle tool to automatically draw circles. Photoshop, too, has a circle tool. Clip Studio Paint, circle tools. With Krita, you paint the circles yourself. Painting something that represents and circle is easy enough, but painting an accurate circle is going to take a lot of practice.

For a while I was posting weekly on Instagram, but no longer. It’s a drag to feed Facebook’s mill. It’s a drag to look at everyone’s perfect work. It’s a waste of time to marvel at the perfect circles and straight lines, and perfectly symmetrical eyes when I could be spending that wasted time learning how to draw my own damned circles.