Standards of Beauty

This was the next concept I explored for drawing 3. Since the professor encouraged us to try something different and risky, I decided to do a whole lot of stuff I had never touched before in a single work. Doing a chalk drawing on a fabric tapestry that I sewed. The concept was comparing the modern, artificially modified beauty with classic beauty (represented by Josephine Baker). The biggest issue with this was, although both figures are pretty damn accurate, the figure of the woman who has undergone plastic surgery could read as a poorly rendered figure to someone unaware of the fact that it is representing plastic surgery. That mixed with me not really enjoying doing chalk on fabric, and it taking far too much time, I decided to end this idea after this work. But hey, at least I got a really interesting conversation piece tapestry for my apartment out of it.