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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". |
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it shows some people out there the level of actual thought that goes behind some images, rather than just something for the eyes.
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great concepts too.
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The Second image, Threesome, really NEEDS the girl to look sad and meek in order to work. If she was simply aggravated or frustrated, it could come off as too forgiving of the boyfriend. Oh, hes such a dummy! Hee hee, that guys in for a rude awakening! This would have been cute and funny, but wouldnt have SAID anything to the viewer. What you achieved was a piece that levels the barrel of the guns of the fantasy-woman directly at the Real girl and pulls the trigger. She cant compete. She knows it, and it makes her sad. This is a serious statement that hits people hard, and SHOULD. We ought to feel bad for her, in order to recognize the arrogance, ignorance, and (perhaps unintentional) cruelty of the boyfriend in de-facto attacking the girls self-image.
Im personally very glad you decided NOT to tone these down, and went with the hard-hitting, grab-you-by-the-gut kinds of artworks you did. Rather than being simple, cutesy depictions of the same clichés weve all seen before, these have balls. Great, great jobI applaud you.
thank you very much for this long comment and the two others you left, man.
I'm glad these had strong impact on you.
I don't know what else to say, except "thanks again "!
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