Color, Line and Facial Features
Which feature draws your attention when colors and lines compete across a head?
Some works make one eye or mouth easy to locate; others divide attention among colored patches, repeated lines and several facial features. Follow those changes through contrasting mouths, eye shapes and layered heads. Notice what you see first, then look for a second point of entry into the same image.
One Element in Charge
These faces organize around a single dominant feature—an oversized head, a color boundary, a sealed gaze—that holds the composition together while smaller marks scatter around it.

Rawblocks #3
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View & watch drawingThe vast golden head crowds out everything else; a lavender mask covers both eyes and scattered triangles orbit the form without challenging its dominance.

Rawblocks #63
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View & watch drawingA clean vertical split divides warm pale yellow from darker brown, replacing nnxyz rawblocks #3's radiant mass with a face organized by a single color boundary.

Rawblocks #14
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View & watch drawingRectangular glasses seal the eyes entirely; the single vivid red-orange lip becomes the only open channel in an otherwise blocked face against a flat olive ground.
Where nnxyz rawblocks #3 is unified by warm yellow volume, nnxyz rawblocks #63 fractures along one chromatic line, making division the organizing principle.
nnxyz rawblocks #63's split is chromatic; nnxyz rawblocks #14's blockage is architectural—dark frames physically close off the upper face, redirecting attention to the single bright lip below.

Rawblocks #28
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View & watch drawingWide blue-framed sunglasses with mirrored yellow reflections seal the eyes; a prominent pink-outlined mouth, scribbled yellow hair, and scattered dots pile ornament onto opacity against unbroken red.
Both nnxyz rawblocks #14 and nnxyz rawblocks #28 use opaque eyewear to withhold expression; nnxyz rawblocks #28 adds a clown-like mouth and festive surface marks that make the concealment feel louder rather than guarded.
The Mouth Takes Over
Here the mouth—teeth, jaw, open gap—moves from supporting feature to the part the eye reaches first, pulling attention downward and forward past everything else.

Rawblocks #6
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View & watch drawingA rigid white tooth grid and tilted sunglasses split the face into sealed top and shouting bottom, with warm orange rays fanning outward behind the head.
nnxyz rawblocks #28's sealed eyes reappear here, but a wide tooth grid below them shifts the balance from concealment toward confrontation.

Rawblocks #49
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View & watch drawingA wide-open mouth with a dark central gap dominates the lower half; scattered red hearts above read as frantic against the teal ground rather than tender.
Rawblocks #45
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View & watch drawingHeavy black flat shapes build a skull-like mass; red-hatched eye sockets and bared white teeth push toward confrontation, softened by loose pink and purple loops drifting past the jaw.
nnxyz rawblocks #6's teeth are bared but contained within a closed grid; nnxyz rawblocks #49's mouth opens into a dark cavity, adding urgency to what was already a shout.
nnxyz rawblocks #49's mouth commands a bright, busy surface; nnxyz rawblocks #45 buries its teeth in a dark form against a dark green ground, making the grin feel heavier and more ambiguous.

Rawblocks #61
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View & watch drawingTwo tooth-bearing forms share the frame—a large head with a pale horizontal tooth row and a smaller yellow head with sharp triangular teeth—with magenta rings drawing unequal attention to each.

Rawblocks #47
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View & watch drawingDense black lines pool at the base around a downturned mouth on a flat orange field; the small white teeth are part of a larger tangle of marks that press inward from every side.
nnxyz rawblocks #45 has one face with one mouth; nnxyz rawblocks #61 doubles the tooth motif across two unequal heads, turning the jaw into a repeated, almost absurd refrain.
nnxyz rawblocks #61's two mouths feel confrontational and outward-facing; nnxyz rawblocks #47 compresses the same energy into a single crouched figure, the teeth almost buried under surrounding marks.
Eyes as the Dominant Mark
These works shift emphasis upward: eyes become targets, spirals, mismatched lenses, or single large orbs, each competing with the marks that surround them.

Rawblocks #19
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View & watch drawingA single red-iris eye dominates the composition; teal vertical bars and a blue crosshatched grid below it read as a cage sealing the lower face, leaving the small mouth at the far edge.
nnxyz rawblocks #47's eyes stare outward from a dense tangle of marks; nnxyz rawblocks #19 isolates one eye as the entire subject, surrounding it with containment structures rather than open ground.

Rawblocks #20
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View & watch drawingOne oversized eye ringed by tooth-like zigzags and yellow spikes stares from a swirling maroon cavity; a small red lip on a stem and a green clover shape at lower left offer a quiet counterpoint.

Rawblocks #29
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View & watch drawingTwo spiral clusters of different hues form asymmetric eye-like zones on a saturated pink ground; a toothy horizontal bar anchors the lower half while white scribbles blur every boundary.
nnxyz rawblocks #19's eye is framed by geometric bars and a grid; nnxyz rawblocks #20's eye is framed by organic spikes and teal dripping marks, making the stare feel more visceral and less architectural.
nnxyz rawblocks #20 has one dominant eye at the center of the composition; nnxyz rawblocks #29 distributes the eye-function across two competing spirals, making the gaze plural and off-balance.

Rawblocks #58
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View & watch drawingMismatched eyes topped by green hearts stare from a dense field of cyan arcs and yellow bands; the broad toothy mouth refuses to let the eyes hold focus alone.

Rawblocks #23
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View & watch drawingTarget-like concentric eyes are the most controlled marks in an otherwise restless surface of scribble tangles and flat dark planes, lending the figure a watchful stillness against the flat cobalt ground.
nnxyz rawblocks #29's spirals function as the whole face; nnxyz rawblocks #58 restores a full face but packs every element—eyes, mouth, background—at equal volume so nothing can dominate.
nnxyz rawblocks #58's eyes compete with everything around them at equal volume; nnxyz rawblocks #23's eyes are the calmest element, creating tension by contrast with the frantic marks surrounding them.

Rawblocks #55
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View & watch drawingTwo visibly unequal eyes—a dark outlined oval on the left and a gold-ringed stare on the right—pull attention across a tilted face; heavy outlines hold the form while thinner colored lines wander past its edges.
nnxyz rawblocks #23's eyes are symmetrically concentric and similarly built; nnxyz rawblocks #55's eyes differ in shape, color, and size, making the asymmetry itself the visible subject.
Every Area at Equal Volume
These works pack the face and the space around it so densely with competing marks, symbols, and color zones that the face becomes one element among many rather than the organizing center.

Rawblocks #30
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View & watch drawingA rounded outline crammed with a crown, a spoked wheel, dotted borders, and a red zigzag jaw reads as a face and a packed container simultaneously, the interior competing with the boundary.
nnxyz rawblocks #55's face is held together by heavy outlines against a relatively open ground; nnxyz rawblocks #30's outline contains so much competing content that the face-reading becomes unstable.

Rawblocks #60
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View & watch drawingFour overlapping head-forms crowd the frame, each staked out by a different color zone, stitched together by a repeated jaw-and-tooth motif that runs across all of them.
Rawblocks #42
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View & watch drawingA head locked in scaffolding of heavy black and red framing lines sits against a yellow ground crowded with gray block-letter shapes, blurring the boundary between figure and annotation.
nnxyz rawblocks #30 packs one face-container past capacity; nnxyz rawblocks #60 multiplies the containers, so the question of which face to read becomes unanswerable.
nnxyz rawblocks #60's faces compete with each other; nnxyz rawblocks #42's single face competes with text-like shapes in its ground, shifting the pressure from internal crowding to external interference.
Rawblocks #38
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View & watch drawingAgainst saturated red, overlapping loops of black, sky blue, and white compete for space; small heart-like shapes and a lavender spot at the base are easy to miss beneath the surrounding commotion.

Rawblocks #52
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View & watch drawingThe figure emerges from total black as a tangle of warm color patches and wire-like cyan lines; two red-rimmed eyes hold their position as the only stable point in the composition.
nnxyz rawblocks #42's ground presses in with letter-shapes while the figure remains readable; nnxyz rawblocks #38's figure and ground merge into a single knotted density, making the face-reading uncertain.
nnxyz rawblocks #38 dissolves into its saturated red ground; nnxyz rawblocks #52 dissolves into black, but two red-rimmed eyes remain fixed, offering the only clear anchor in the composition.
Quieter Surfaces
The final group: faces where the marks have settled into a particular register of color and line—not resolved, but no longer pulling against each other with equal force.

Rawblocks #15
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View & watch drawingPale multicolored rays push outward from behind the head; warm tones pool on one side, cool blue on the other, splitting the face into contrasting temperatures without breaking its outline.
nnxyz rawblocks #52 emerges from darkness with marks pressing inward; nnxyz rawblocks #15 radiates outward into a light ground, reversing the direction of pressure while keeping the face's expression mid-shift.

Rawblocks #22
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View & watch drawingDiagonal rays fan outward from the lower face area; thick color patches build mass while thin neon scribbles hover above like static against the flat cobalt-blue ground.

Rawblocks #18
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View & watch drawingEvery surface carries a different fill—scribbled hat crown, rainbow bands across the face, diagonal hatching on the brim—locked into compartments by heavy black outlines against a bubbly pastel ground.
nnxyz rawblocks #15's rays emanate from behind the head; nnxyz rawblocks #22's rays push from the jaw area itself, making the radiation feel like something the face is producing rather than receiving.
nnxyz rawblocks #22's marks feel like escaping energy pushing outward; nnxyz rawblocks #18's marks are contained within rigid outlines, turning the same density into something more structured and sealed.

Rawblocks #17
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View & watch drawingA white polka-dot field pushes the figure forward like a cut-out; dark-lensed sunglasses hide expression, leaving the cigarette and cap tilt to carry the attitude.

Rawblocks #21
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View & watch drawingFlat blue ground, tangled scribble lines holding soft color patches together, open mouth and mismatched eyes—a face assembled from interference, its shout suspended rather than released.
nnxyz rawblocks #18's face is packed with competing fills held by heavy outlines; nnxyz rawblocks #17 simplifies to a flat patterned ground and a single withheld expression, making restraint feel like its own kind of noise.
nnxyz rawblocks #17 withholds expression behind sunglasses and a flat ground; nnxyz rawblocks #21 opens the mouth wide, but the surrounding scribble and flat blue field make the shout feel caught rather than completed.

Rawblocks #12
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View & watch drawingA profile tilting into the frame, built from overlapping color patches that never solidify; a single red streak cuts across the face and vertical stripes drape from the jaw into the purple ground.
nnxyz rawblocks #21 faces forward with a frozen open mouth; nnxyz rawblocks #12 turns away in profile, its marks dissolving into the purple ground, leaving expression as a residue rather than a statement.
One more look
Does the feature that first caught your eye still organize the image after longer looking? Try beginning with a different color or line.