Back on my ‘Draw me nsfw’ Illustrations – some of them aren’t really that NSFW (digital illustration)
I mentioned in a previous post about people posting themselves online to be drawn, or to just share themselves. Why are they doing it and why am I looking?
Exhibitionism and voyeurism obviously. But a lot of them aren’t even erotic, they’re a bit odd, quirky, personal, sincere, bold… it’s almost like, given the space and freedom from the usual expectations – people are actually becoming more of themselves. Dying their hair, exploring their identity and posing naked with their plants
I thought of a non (kind of) erotic ‘body’ (haha) of illustration, (more nude than erotic) detailing peoples unique reaction to the pandemic – they’re share pictures of themselves online doing…just stuff. Dressing up, experimenting with gender, being playful…online. Do they care less because they’ve been isolated so long, or were they always like this?
I don’t know, I feel a connection to these people, I check out the rest of their profiles, comments, interests. I started drawing them in different art styles – If they’ve shared a picture online, I’m drawing it. I don’t know where I’m going with that, but I’m collecting a lot of images of people living their best socially distant lives
I thought that might look good in a physical light box/digital illustration format. I’d do loads of them in standard screen size, display them on top of each other together and call it ‘stacked’ or something.
More on this as we progress
Aimee Charlotte 