#bodystudies

I did some more body studies using the Line Of Action website. These are 2 minute studies. I wanted to challenge myself and use pen so I don’t erase anything.

This is supposed to be much more detailed but first a #quicksketch 🙌🏽🙌🏽 #romano #art #Roma #sculpture #drawing #quickdrawing #sketch #quicksketch #draw #lines #lineart #pencil #academicart #anatomy #portrait #realism #sketchbook #firenze #renacimiento #museivaticani #italia #instaart #artist #bodystudies #illustration #dibujo #arte #bosquejo #boceto (presso Santiago, Chile)

Doing a bunch of #floursack #bodystudies before doing my #larger ones #artistslife #artistsoninstagram #artoftheday #characterdesign #visualsoflife #visualdevelopment #ballerina #basketball #pirate #cat #clown #dogwalker #artistsofinstagram #concepts #drawing #dailyart #sketches #smallsketches #bigideas (at San Francisco, California)

Some cy #wip #bodystudies #adventuretimeoc #adventuretime #atoc #oc #originalcharacter #cyrag #ink #drawing #artistsontumblr #artistsoninstagram

This photograph is 6 of 6 in my body study. This photograph is one that I took of myself. Seeing the beauty and diversity in other peoples’ bodies is much easier to do than with your own. My body is a war zone, under a perpetual state of disaster. My body is a construction zone, under a constant change, trying to make it perfect. My breasts have always been a struggle. I knew I would have large breasts, just from looking at the women in my family. I hated my breasts, I developed early, much earlier than most girls in my grade. I was teased by the boys in elementary and middle school, the snap of my bra stung my skin, and just as the explicit comments stung my heart. As I grew older, my breasts continued to grow, leaving behind stretch marks and shame. My breasts gave me unwanted, unsolicited attention. The sexual assaults began in the lunchroom for me, a swift grope or smack, and they didn’t end. Men found me everywhere like my peer found me in the break room, and his hands would find the inside of my jeans and like my manager would find me in the back at work, and his fingers would find my hips and my ass as his lips found my neck. My body was desired, but not by me. Loving my body was hard, not because I was insecure, but because the attention it got me. I am not the girl that is loved. I am the girl that is fucked/felt/fingered and forgotten. That is what I have been taught, and that is why loving my body is such a strange journey. 

This is piece 5 out of 6. It shows an androgynous woman, a woman who does not have a certain gendered appearance. Frida Kahlo thought to be an androgynous woman, and she served as inspiration for this piece. Many people believe women have to dress and look a certain way to be beautiful, it is believed they have to dress in a womanly fashion to adhere to the societal norms. Androgynous men and women reject this idea. Androgyny is beautiful and androgyny is sexy.