In Pensive Pose

I like it as an image, and though I'd seen the Shepard Fairey Obama Hope poster (who on the planet hasn't?) I didn't connect them. Cropped tight the image would make a great album cover, too.

I like it as an image, and though I'd seen the Shepard Fairey Obama Hope poster (who on the planet hasn't?) I didn't connect them. Cropped tight the image would make a great album cover, too.

There's a 'response' to the HOPE poster. Google "Obama SNOB poster". Were I a singer I would definitely use this as an album cover!

Yeah, now I see it. I still like that you added the earring, the hair, and bled it out to crimson. It's a good manipulation of a public meme.

Dang, I hadn't made the connection with the poster.

I'd wondered about your avatar, since it looked like a photo manipulation or other graphic arts work.

The full poster -- that's good stuff. Personally, I don't think everything has to be perfect technique, even if yes, I'm a perfectionist too. It gets a message across in a striking way, and that is the whole idea behind propaganda and ad/mktg, you want them to remember what you were saying and what the product, service, idea, or person is. IMHO, the upturned face does that to a T. (Heh, transgendered T? Wasn't trying for a pun, honest.)

I've known one person online who is trans, before, during, and after. But other than that, I don't know much about trans folks. Myself, uh, evidently I like male parts so much that that's what I want in a partner, heheh, as well as myself. :) But perhaps because being gay means I had to figure out my feelings, the confusion of, is this OK, and why do I have these other feelings for some guys but not really for girls, or where some friendship-feelings blended into sexual attraction and feelings, well, to me, all of that has to have some similarities to how someone's gender identity feelings, transgender, must be.

I agree with Camy, that could be a really fine album cover, close cropped. Or you might want to do a similar pose with new photos and work from there.

Geez, I would think a poster about transgender would have the fur flying in a class critique, if they didn't stay on the topic of the art, style, technique, and presentation.

Thanks for the post about the artwork, that's great. Art's always welcome.