We’ve all heard it before. Are you a pear shape? An apple shape? You’re neither. You’re person shaped. People come in different shapes and sizes, we aren’t apples, we aren’t pears, we’re people.
Enjoy your body, express it, and love it. Don’t put it down, find what you like about it, even if you have to use someone else’s eyes. You wouldn’t allow someone to be so negative about your friends, so why allow yourself to be so negative about you?
I don’t normally do straight paintings of established characters like this. Just painting someone else’s art makes me feel like I’m copying, but this time I wanted to do a painting of Ursula the Sea Witch because she is just plain awesome. Not only is she a great villain but she’s a woman in power and control of her life and her body. Sure she is is evil, but she still has everything else going for her, and she makes a really good role model. I always liked her songs and liked her attitude.
“Never under estimate the power of BODY LANGUAGE! Ha!”
I hope to one day get a cool Ursula costume going for myself, I just want to make sure that when I do, her tentacles look awesome, not cheap, that’s the big thing holding me back right now.
Ursula doesn’t apologize for anything, she takes up space and fills a room, and if she’s really mad, she just gets bigger. She’s plain awesome.