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Ha!
I've been off line for about four months, and this is the first thread I read!
Christopher Tyler actually e-mailed me right after my article in Artist's Magazine came out last February. I had a short sentence in there about centering the eyes in the middle of the head and shoulders portrait, and he wanted to see where I came up with the idea. Did I read it somewhere?
Like, in an old book, or, say, Nature Magazine in 1998?
I told him I was looking at a room full of portraits in one of my classes, and those with the eyes in the middle of the canvas looked "right," and those with the eyes elsewhere....looked.....wrong. (The skies didn't part then either.)
BTW, the eyes (or dominate eye...) goes in the middle in profile (both left and right), in three quarter, and in full front. It just works. Don't put the head in the middle of the canvas, put the eye in the middle of the canvas. End of lecture...
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