New art - Nudes

Hello. It has been a long time since I have been around the cellar. I hope everyone is doing well. I had a job for a while, but now am again self employed as a full time artist. I have some ideas for getting my work some more exposure. I wanted to post a few of my new paintings, since I have been moving in a new direction. I am posting the links since I am not sure how sensitive some of your bosses tend to be about "sexually explicit" images.

Moonlight Bather

Found Something

On Fire

Contemplation

Meditative

If anyone gets a chance will ya look at these and give me some feedback?

Nice work.

But none of them give me wood.

sorry bout that.

Interesting, in a kind of Peter Max meets Anime kind of way ... but still distinctive. I really like the "Moonlight Bather". There's a mystery to it given that her back is toward the viewer and I really like the colors. Which do not, incidentally, go great with my sofa.

Edit to add: I tried very hard to inject some obscure artsy fartsy terms in my above statement, but it didn't go well. I even looked up the proper spelling and usage of crepuscular, but that wasn't quite what I wanted to say about it. I couldn't find a good enough website of fancy words used in critique of art.

Thanks, Wolf. I appreciate the feedback.

The link to the art from the sugarbead site resolves to this: http://www.sugarbeaddesigns.com/www.sugarbeaddesigns.com

Needs fixin'

Oops. Thanks for letting me know. I will be getting a real art gallery up pretty soon. When I do, I will update my urls.

Cool, Case. 1, 2 and 5 should be safe for work. ;)

good to know, Bruce. :D

I LOVE Meditative! Gorgeous! You're so talented! Great stuff!!!
of course, I like them all, but Meditative is my fave.

Great work. Lose the hair and what have you got?

A little more body and a little less hair would make it better for me.

My favorite is also the last one, Meditative. Neato. Always look forward to seeing your stuff Case!

I'm also a big fan of Meditative. In general (if you are still looking for feedback), I find the ones that don't feature frontal nudity to be the most interesting. Contemplative scares me a little -- the nipples are STARING at me. That might have been what you intended, of course. I was a little threatened by it, frankly. Do women have a different reaction?

I thought they were a little too overt, but I don't feel threatened by them. I am comfortable with my own boobage.

I don't mean threatened in the "my manhood is at risk" sense. I'm just saying they're giving off a different vibe than the woman's face is. The face is clearly serene, but the hair and breasts are what drew my eyes more (yah yah whatever), and they were saying "grrr".

I liked them all, case. Moonlight Bather especially for the colors, sexy curves, and light in front of her. Contemplation is my favorite for its composition, balance, and pleasing colors. I also liked Meditative for the pose and the way her hair forms a wall. It has a stained glass quality to it.

I think your work is outstanding!

Thanks guys for all the feedback...it is good to know how everyone reacts. Definitely the staring boobies. Yeah...now that one is creeping me out a bit. But for some reason it is still one of my favorites. Thanks so much for looking at them!

mrnoodle wrote:

I'm also a big fan of Meditative. In general (if you are still looking for feedback), I find the ones that don't feature frontal nudity to be the most interesting. Contemplative scares me a little -- the nipples are STARING at me. That might have been what you intended, of course. I was a little threatened by it, frankly. Do women have a different reaction?

I am not sure if women have that same reaction. Honestly, this is the first time I have really got any constructive criticism. It's nice to get ideas on where to improve.

Would it be hard to look at a nude of a man with an obvious erect penis?

case wrote:

I am not sure if women have that same reaction.
Would it be hard to look at a nude of a man with an obvious erect penis?

They don't bother me. As to your second question, No. It wouldn't be hard to look at. I wouldn't put it over my sofa, or anything, but, it certainly wouldn't bother me.

Hi Case,

Your series of pictures reminded me quite a lot of the style depicted in the picture below - have you ventured into fairy illustration at all...?:

case wrote:

I am not sure if women have that same reaction. Honestly, this is the first time I have really got any constructive criticism. It's nice to get ideas on where to improve.

Would it be hard to look at a nude of a man with an obvious erect penis?

I have a similiar reaction to the boobs staring at me. It's not so much that they are they, but how they are drawn that causes the effect, methinks. The starkness of the illustration is what does it. Oh, and the precision of the circles has something to do with it too.

A lot would depend on how the penis was depicted.

Naughty bits draw the eye. Sometimes too much, so they become a distraction from the whole composition. :yum:

Maybe if the right one (her left one) were a little more shadowed like that side of her body, it wouldn't stand out so much, and therefor not draw your eyes down quite so much. My eyes went directly to the breasts, then the rest after a second or two. I love the way the color changes in the hair in all of them.

I suppose in some ways I am looking to force the viewer to acknowledge the breasts, but I couldn't tell you why.

Well, then you accomplished your goal, which I would think makes you even that much more of a talented artist :)

Definately no shortage of talent here. The more I look, the more I like.

Yet another (finished today):

Grace

Moonlight Bather is my favorite. Very "art nouveau" which is a style I am interested in, whereas the others I find more cartoonish/anime which does nothing for me.

I find the cerise nipples more "cartoony" than the rest of the bodies, which makes me suspect the artist is scared of them/drawing them. It's like when shy girls wear too much make-up.

Not that I know an awful lot about any of it.

heh, I haven't thought about that...the nipple comment. I wonder...am I afraid of nipples?

You need to go here Case

You know, that is funny...I was not breastfed as a child. Hmm....I wonder if that has something to do with it. And I did breastfeed my own child but not for very long (4 months, I think?) Maybe that was more information than anyone wanted.

Re: erect penis

I think that erect phallic symbols in art carry a whole different cart of baggage than breasts. Usually they are deliberately made to be the main point of the piece (har har), to illustrate domination or virility or something. I think you might have stumbled onto my hangup with your (painted) breasts, though. They aren't "masculine", but they have a quality that one doesn't associate with the quiet earth mother fluttery femininity I was kind of expecting.

The new one, with only one breast exposed and that one partially obscured by her hair, is more of what I expected (or was trained by society to expect) to see.

I see what you mean.

I had not wanted to portray the soft feminine type breasts, though, in some of the other paintings. In some ways, I want to portray what we might consider societally beautiful, but not soft and touchable.

Ah, well. I have been experimenting with landscapes lately, anyway.

Very nice work.

Thank you! :D