I've passed the threshold of ONE HUNDRED drawings on the YouDraw website!!! I am totally elated!!!!!!!!! I had to make a drawing that would represent everything that I have taken in and learned while drawing on this miniscule drawing pad. I chose two represent myself but to take aspects from two other artists that I admire. In this piece I have become Adam from Michelangelo's The creation of Adam. The left panels of the piece are left semi-unfinished as if I'm still in the process of creating or drawing my own self. This idea was taken from a charcoal drawing by Kathé Kollwitz entitled Self Portrait.
Obviously I'm in the buff in this piece. I have already received a few comments by unscrupulous idiots on this drawing that don't understand the message of my piece. A drawing with nudity is simply a drawing of God's greatest image, that of man. Nudity isn't the focus of my piece and that should be obvious since it does not have a very significant position. I will not ruin art by plastering a barrier over anything anyone considers cliche. Michelangelo didn't do it nor will I. As with any artwork depicting nudity it's the beauty of the human figure that is on display and nothing else. Clothing often becomes distracting and in a few years time will become obsolete. Imagine if Michelangelo was forced by the leaders of his day to put loin cloths over his figures because they deemed his figures as unholy and pagan. It strikes me as funny that today we still view nudity with the same attitude as in Michelangelo's day. Why? Haven't we progressed as a culture yet? There is as much a difference between nudity and pornography as an apple and orange. But I'd like to know your opinions. Even though I have lead you to the correct way of thinking I imagine there must be someone that would challenge it. So bring it on tightie whitie.
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