toy story

I have to admit, I had no idea what I was going to do when I came up with the theme, "gaping". Maybe I chose it just because Google-imaging it was so disturbing, and then, that's what art is supposed to do, right? Disturb, nurture, and elevate human sentiments.

I didn't go about this week's drawing so smartly. With no reference image whatsoever, I just started wiping charcoal onto the page, crossing my fingers that it would turn out okay. Inspired by the google image, I decided to play with the line between "socially acceptable" and "vaginal black holes". Because let's be honest, what do you think of when you first hear "gaping"? (For reference, here's the Google URL. Cheers.)

Drawing the leaping figure first, I swapped and then linked the rectal and oral canals. To incorporate the concept of "gaping", I made the gap wider, and thought the piece finished. But when I looked at it again, I felt incredibly unsatisfied, realizing that I had basically drawn a glaringly vulgar mutant with a head instead of a dick.

So I made the gaping hole explode. Out of it came trees, sprites, naked yearning, blue regret, amorphous shadows, and roses, all leaping out of the disfigured body's wound and spilling to the right. I went over the charcoal with black gouache to deepen the cut as well, dragging some red-pink down to the lips.
The left background was left starkly white, acting as a contrast to the right's chromatic parade.

The strictly black and white figure counterbalances the colorful painted images, which spew out of the figure from the __. (You decide.) At the same time, the figure has his head between his legs, so to speak, and in shock, disbelief, or fear of his situation and surroundings, he is left gaping.