i didn’t paint today so I doodled this instead haha
something quick from this afternoon!
I don’t know why some parts are showing up yellow on my phone,but it’s not like that on the computer so I don’t know how I’ll fix it :/
Fantine
This has been sitting around my computer since before the movie went into theatres, so I decided to just finish it up in a rougher state. i think I was able to keep more of the emotion this way so that worked out…? yeah let’s just go with that.
finally finished this!
ink study based on a photo of Lady Gaga <3
Finished this this morning, practicing using brighter colours!
She really looks like a bird lol maybe that’s why she has no visible arms.
new stuff
This was another big project from last semester! The theme was frame and context. I already talked a bit about this earlier, but my basic idea was how women have been ‘framed’ by their sexuality in art over the years. I chose a very old image (the bodies are based on ancient roman sculptures) and a more contemporary figure of Marilyn Monroe. Instead of choosing someone even more recent I thought Marilyn was a good choice because she’s soooo recognizable, and was consistently marketed as a sex symbol and I think not really taken seriously as a person. Her presence is meant to frame the bodies as sexual whether that is what the artist intended or not. I wanted this to be a statement about how women and women’s bodies have been portrayed in media for over two thousand years, I hope this came across.
Medium is charcoal and ink on strathmore paper…. the heads are taped on.
these are actually from last year… one is a self-portrait from a photo, the other is what I imagine I will look like in old age! I’m scared of aging less because I will look older and more because I will just… BE older.
Both ballpoint pen on 15x22 stonehenge paper.
Selfie
