MILKSHAKES

Jacqueline Garcia, Milkshakes, 2021. Digital illustration, 3500 x 2500 pixels.

Milkshakes is the third piece I worked on for Milk (2021). Milkshakes was actually created from the early concepts I had for my second piece. I had scrapped the idea and instead Sugar Tits (2021) was created. I am a strong believer in saving sketches as weeks, even months later, we can look back at our ideas and have a better understanding of what we want to do with them. Thus, Milkshakes became more than just a thought of Ajolote nipple pasties. Now it’s a piece intended to speak on the double standards of sexualization in men and women. As I began my final draft on my computer, I then decided to paint the figures in grayscale as the composition of the female figure felt like a callback to Milking (2021).