SI #10

The idea behind this piece ws to show how much people, especially women are judged for what they eat. There are so many articles and videos telling people how to lose weight and sying counting calories is good, and telling girls who have love handles shouldn't be wearing crop tops. I wanted to show how overwhelming all of this critism can be for so many people. So many opinions are opposing and what you should and shouldn't do becomes so unclear because everyone is telling you something different. I wanted to show how much judgement girls get for eating a burger, whether it be from oytside or inside. I wanted to show that when someone eats something that is "unhealthy" that often what goes through girls head isn't positive.  

For this project I used oil pastel and collage. The oil pastel was because it has such bright colors which allowed for that to really be the main focus of the piece and not blend into the background too much. I also think oil pastel is so easy to manipulate features with and give a distorted look too. The background is a collage of real articles about different ways to glow up, lose weight, and how people arr feeling like larger models are getting too much attention. They are essentially articles judging larger women and how to become more pretty. I felt like pasting all these titles and lines around in kind of a chaotic way would show the chaos that goes on in one's head trying to figure out what is the right thing to do.

I started with trying to get a good photo of myself that I could copy. I then started with a sketch, that seemed a little too realistic looking so I scrated it and started over because I wanted it to be a more distorted look. I then did another sketch that looked similar but I made the mouth a bit bigger and just went with it. I then colred it in with ouil pastel as cut it out. I then sketched the form onto another piece of paper. I researched different topics that I'd seen online that seemed kind of problematic to me and found some blogs and articles that expressed the ideas I was looking for. I read through some of them and it was really sad to see how mean people were and how disrespectful, and some of them I decided not to read all the way through. I then picked out some of the most shocking quotes and some headlines and put them all together and glued the original face on top.