These are the three sketches for the triptych concept I elaborate for a "Pin Up" web contest in 2004.

I didn't want to do something as simple as the contest title... I wanted to give some purpose to this and give something a little "shifty".

Some reasons to that: I know most of people really don't like the kind of exagerations I usually do, they find it "gross"...
I don't wanted to do a classical "good taste 'n' please anyone" Pin Up so I had to think different.

I started to brainstorm about actual "Woman Imagery"... Big deal, actually.

These three ideas popped up when I was in the shower a few days before contest closure, I had to be quick.

I made the first one, "Femme" [link] in two days.
Now I look at it, I can see what's wrong with it: I must not have done a blushy-shamy girl... this is to much and disturbing the purpose... not badly but a little.
I should have to depict a chubby girl just standing... neutral, waiting for something next to the advertising. It should have been a more efficient comparison with the skinny on the plackard: audience just had to see sickness of "media" VS "real life" a-bit-to-healthy cuty. Snacking-Shameness gives the main idea a little messy and caricatured.

The second one, "Threesome" [link] is about geek addiction to fantasy heroines. I took Lara Croft which is well-known even if it's an "old" reference... one of hundreds !
So, what are geek's girlfriends feelings about this ? Composition idea with Lara's gun above the girl's head is good, I think... but once again, the girl's facial expression is not subtle enough. I must have had to show irritation instead of sadness which makes her too weak.
Buy the way, I did this one whith a young and talented friend... but I think we didn't worked enough on its composition, which is a little shaky.

The third one was the more obvious: Beauty and liberal consumption pictures of ours in countries where people suffer... this is a fact, actually.
Glamour VS Violence... I began to rip a picture of Marilyn Monroe and had a few hours left to make the whole picture before contest closure.
... I wasn't convinced enough to finish it.


Well, any of the two first ones were selected. Not because of technical level, if I refer to some arts which were rewarded, I think it was just considered "Out of subject".