what is the best way in your opinion to make eye sockets???
 

I myself extruded the faces of the eyes in a tad and then deleated them before tweaking the vertisys a bit

but i was left with a strange shodow around the eyes is there a better way to do this?

or perhaps get rid of the shadow?

thank you for your insight.
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shadow ?? maybe you could show us a screen shot of what your talking about ?? include the wire please.

Try adjusting the 'normals' a tad to get rid o the shadows, sounds like a thing i posted about a couple months back.