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.
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Mood:
Sentimental -
Listening to: Reason
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Reading: Some Gotrek and Felix
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Watching: Out
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Playing: Dead
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Eating: Humble pie
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Drinking: Home Made Rum
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
But yeah