Daily Creativity: Love Your BodyThe Love Your Body series is near and dear to my heart. This sketch is done from a photograph taken for the Fat Naked Art Project by Durham photographer Heather Kolaya, and you should click that link to see the original image and explore their site for some inspiring photos. I love her energy and her smile.
5×7 colored charcoal on paper.
Daily Creativity: Love Your Stretch MarksThanks to a discussion I had today about the idea of painting stretch marks with glitter as a new fashion trend, I was inspired to draw this. Another piece in the Love Your Body series.
Over the last few years I have learned to love my stretch marks. I have them and have had some since I was in grade school. For years I stopped looking at them and recently I’m noticing them again, but this time with affection. The marks on the small of my back look like vines growing up to my spine, and I think it’s gorgeous. I can’t really capture myself but I can be inspired by myself. This drawing is me, and so many other women. I’ve used pieces of myself and pieces of other to make this statement. I drew this using both my micron pens for the black and a quill with ink for the purple.
5×7 Mixed inks on paper
Love Your Body: Victory!This painting symbolizes victory to me. I don’t know where the idea came from but I just love the idea.This is part of the “Love Your Body” series. I painted this in the new Art Rage app on my iPad, taking advantage of that extra resolution.
Nutty Snuggles Rory.Welcome to Lent! This is the first of my lenten Daily Creativities. In this drawing it’s me, snuggling Rory. Colored pencils on paper.
Part of the Love Your Body series, Watercolor note card. You can find the inspiration for this painting on tumblr.
After a discussion about drawing fat characters thin I found myself needing to paint a lovely fat body. Most of my models in art school were larger bodies, they are easier to paint and I find them lovely. For some reason I am hearing people say thin bodies are easier to draw, and I don’t understand that. I think it may have something to do with the influence of anime and not drawing from actual models or images but from how to cartoon books. Either way, I was very happy painting this.