Yeah, good beer, isn’t it? I’ve had enough beers whap me in the teeth to appreciate a gentlemanly one.

Thanks for your pirate tale… it’s good to know I’m not the only one with eye woes. Mine tend to be equally defective, though.

You could always stick to profiles or rear-side views. Sadly, most people only want profiles for mug shots.

Don’t worry, the world needs more pirates. I may have to go draw one now… but what animal will it be? Flamingo? Cuttlefish? Aardvark? The possibilities are endless.

And why does tracing never work? Gah!

As for those pesky eyes… well, I’ll tell you the tale of “Why Kay draws a lot of pirates”. There I’ll be, drawing away. The general head part of the person is there, then I’ll go in and Get To It, and I usually do the eyes pretty early since the other parts of the face kinda fit in around them. I usually get the first eye down great, I mean damn near PERFECT. And then? The other eye? NOOooo, it’s not right. Just not right. So I’ll erase it and try again. And again. And again. Eventually I’ll even get desperate, and, figuring that since the first eye was perfect, just tracing it, flipping it, and putting it where the other one should be SHOULD work, right? RIGHT?! But no, it never does. By that time the paper would be so thin from all the erasing that trying one more time would mean erasing a hole right through if I got it wrong, so – eye patch. Yep. THAT solves it. And who wears an eye patch but supervillains and pirates? I don’t see any eye patches on your stuff, so you’ve done it right. It might be fun to be a pirate though, so what the hell, as long as you can do one eye right your stylin’!