I started this project at the beginning of 2017, when Instagram was overflown with eyelooks. This was back then, and still is at the end of 2018, a trendy way of showing eye makeup in very closeup shots, often overly edited to the point where the makeup wasn't exactly what was in real life.

I imagined a floating eye, a piece of skin in the air. At first I decided to draw it, but then I thought, sculpting should be way much easier, because I can then flip things around and just render. Pretty naive and needless to say I had zero experience with sculpting, even though I have academic education in arts, but still - I decided to download Sculptris and give it a try. To my surprise I was able to sculpt a pretty decent chunk of eye, so that's where my story began.

2017 was the peak of new, trendy makeup and Instagram illustrated that really well. My feed was filled with the most amazing catwalk-level makeup looks - glossy eyelids, partial eyeliners, dots below and over the lid, lots of glitter. Back then I was with my previous insta handle, Shimurr.

The stroked, brushed effect of a single colour was one of my favourite. 

These were my first months in rendering, so back then my renders were very basic and noisy. I compensated with loads of overprocessing, because I thought the works were supposed to look like that anyway.. 

Caustics was attempted.

Got a bit more abstract with time.

Did a few basic animations to lure Instagram's algorithm.