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Narrowing the nudes...

Journal Entry: Tue Apr 19, 2011, 5:16 AM
I'm trying to identify what I like (and don't like!) in nudes.  

I've worked out this much:  I don't like things that are too explicit.  I want to feel delight at softness or a sense of social message.  I don't like crazy, unnatural poses.  I don't like a model to be posed where she looks either really boney or it's not flattering to a fuller form.  I don't like  shots that are designed to appeal to the "typical male soft-core porn" ideal.  

I think if I boil it back... I like a nude to have a message or idea.  And no, boobs and bums are not an idea!  There has to be a connection or story for me.  It's interesting because I've found myself favouriting some glamour shots that I wouldn't have expected to have liked - and some stuff that is more explicit than I'd take - hence the need to examine what's working for me.  I think that the ones I like are images that tell me a story.  

So, I think it's not about the style.  I think it's about the story.  I might even go off and google the connection between art and story-telling.  I expect that as cave-folks, that's where our art came from.

Share the love campers.... try to put up with my crazy journey into questioning my work...

Duckie.

  • Mood: Sentimental
  • Listening to: Reason
  • Reading: Some Gotrek and Felix
  • Watching: Out
  • Playing: Dead
  • Eating: Humble pie
  • Drinking: Home Made Rum
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:iconchrisstjames:
It will be the text for your next exhibition ! I like it.
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:icon2stupid2duck:
Thanks Chris. I promise to get off my ar$e and send you some material. (Text and all.)
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:iconphydeau:
`phydeau Apr 19, 2011  Hobbyist Photographer
Hmm. I might have to do some thinking, now, too. You just caused me to realize that it's been a good long while since I've surprised myself by liking something I normally wouldn't and vice-versa. On a subconscious level, I must have figured it out.
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:icon2stupid2duck:
Umm... can you share it with me??!! I'm still figuring, but I guess I'll get there. Hell, it's even promted me to book a few models in over the next few months!
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:icondarthmarlan:
I like the idea of having something to think about too, not just bared and flashed out for all to see :) and some of the so-called AN work submitted in the past few months of males.... eww, if i wanna see an erect p, well, yeah yadayada, i report all that horrid stuff here, not to say there isn't good male AN work, of which there is, some really thoughtful and artistic nude work has been submitted here and i think that is great. As for some of the subject combinations of women and accessories too haha, well yeah a lot belongs in comic books and the like, i guess i could rant on for hours here but i will restrain myself.... as i am trying to enjoy some good beer and some japanese cartoons at the moment :D just wandered back to DA to see what was new :P
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:icon2stupid2duck:
LOL. You enjoy ya beer and cartoons. But I think ya dead right mate. I'm probably stupid for trying to work out what it is that really works for me but at least I understand it's "for me." Others have to work out their own rules. If I can just get it... then that will help me shoot heaps! (I ain't gunna judge my morals against anyone else's.. it's about what appeals to the art!)
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:icondarthmarlan:
:nod:

hehee the cartoons i watch have loads of blood and gore and nasty stuff in them, oh and subtitles, hehee so you have to try and keep your brain up to speed to take it all in :D the japanese make the best cartoons :D

But yeah :) i know what you mean there too :aww:
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:icon2stupid2duck:
You mean there is some other sort of cartoon??!!
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:icondarthmarlan:
Yeah, surprisingly, they also make cute cartoons for kids :P not adults :giggle:
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