@visualspice You should get back into it! I carry a sketchbook everywhere for those 'ah-ha!' moments. That and my tablet tends to freak out on me so keeping my pencil and paper skills sharp helps my sanity XD
@zozee9 I've improved more than I thought I would have. And ironically, that old drawing is of Spike from Cowboy Bebop. An anime I didn't actually watch until last November! I think I drew it for my sister because she was really into it at the time.
Anyway, I had my exhibition held Friday 6th after many weeks work (only me, my tutor, and one other classmate helped to set all the boards up in the exhibition space /painting them, sanding them, filling the holes, gumtaping them etc./) and it was pretty good fun. A whole bunch of people took my business cards so whoop whoop!
This was a picture taken by the College photographer the evening before the actual day.
And this is a fairly low-quality photo my sister randomly decided to take. As you can probably tell, the pieces have changed about and there's a new one. I only hung up 6 of the 12 I drew altogether, because I knew I'd hate most of them! It was a great way to get to know facial features better. Wall of text below the image for a brief description of the topic I chose.
The art was about sisterhood and unity among all walks of women in a world that is always pitting women against each other, but an understanding that we cannot hold other women to our standard of what being a woman means. The idea that real equality for all women won't even be achieved if we don't understand all women are different, not all women have vagina's, and that there is no 'right way' to express freedom as women. I'm sure most of you know a woman that would say another woman is oppressed because she wears a hijab or something similar. If you live in America or somewhere like the UK and see a woman wearing any kind of religious garment, she's probably doing so out of choice. She might just as easily think a woman in a pair of shorts or a bikini is submitting her body for the pleasure of men. I went to a clothes store once in London, and the women who bought the most were covered head to toe in a niqab, not a man in sight, they were obviously not being oppressed. The woman in the top center is (supposed to be) Laverne Cox, a black transgendered woman who you might know from Orange Is The New Black, and a lot of cisgenderd women might think she has no right to her identity as a woman because her biological sex was not the same. She was recently featured in Time Maganize and is bringing out a documentary about the journeys of transgendered teens facing varying levels of support. Obviously I have tried to portray as many different races as possible, because as can be the case, more privileged (white straight cis) women do not stand up for their more oppressed sisters.
