Monday, January 29, 2007

Red Torture


This image represents the lengths of torture woman would put themselves through to become beautiful. Not that they would cut off their own legs...but it that was considered "beautiful" then some girls would go to that extreme. I wanted to do a shocking image. For this school project I mimicked the illustration style of artist Luba Lukova. She has very striking and shocking images with a lot of meaning behind them.

7 Comments:

Blogger Prax said...

I like this image and style, nice work

2:24 AM  
Blogger Rico said...

Very striking image... like the style.
One Q: Why is she holding the knife along the blade and not the handle? Reason for that?

4:45 AM  
Blogger Bill Z said...

wow very intense. I'll have to google Luba Lukova. As the father of 2 girls I am convinced there will be some such shocking trend by the time they are in high school - piercings and tattoos just won't be rebellious enough by then

7:04 AM  
Blogger Twisselman said...

This is very good. I think it's my favorite for the week. It speaks volumes and can really start some good dialogue. Love the basic two-color scheme and the whole style.
Yes, self-mutilation for the sake of some cultural idea of what beauty is... very bizarre to me.

8:23 AM  
Blogger arvindh said...

Spooky!

4:28 PM  
Blogger Kim Carney said...

beautifully done

6:48 PM  
Blogger rogĂ©rio said...

I like this one :)

2:51 PM  

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