Revision SI #12

With this cartoon I wanted to call out a brand that I find really disturbing, but in a rather humorous way, as well as playing with color and connecting to the project I was revising. Brandy Melville is known for having all their clothes in a single size, and it’s always a small or extra small, which excludes many people who already feel excluded from an entire trend. A founder of the company even said, he only wants pretty girls to feel welcome. I found that really disturbing and so I decided to show how one size definitely does not fit all. 

I used a pen for most of this project. I wanted to make it like an editorial cartoon, which is usually black and white, so I decided that just using a pen would be the most realistic approach. I connected this piece to the original it was inspired by, SI # 12, by the colors and the clothing. In SI #12, all the people are wearing skirts, and I had the people in the cartoon also wearing skirts, some of them the same color combo as the people on the plate. I also tried to match the body type of the people in the cartoon with the body type of the person on the plate who was wearing those colors. 

I started out by sketching my idea, it took a lot of erasing both in my sketchbook and on the final paper, to get the body shapes to look right. I just couldn’t get them to look realistic, but also cartoon-like. I struggled with the single outline approach, because I am so used to shading. I also sketched out the body typed from the front, so that I could get an idea of what it should look like from the side or from an angle. Even though I did a lot of practice in my sketchbook, I still had to erase and redraw the final paper multiple times which is why I ended up cutting out the figures and pasting them onto the background.