Fig. 1 Beauty Outlined (author's own)
I have now started to experiment with ideas, the topic I am working on is very broad, so I had to narrow it down. I had to main topics within my subjects that I was working around;
- The sexualisation of women within the media
- The idea of beauty within the media
I have decided to go with the second topic. I want to look at how women are made to look impossibly beautiful, and the lengths we go to just to try and reach this impossibility.
I started off with tracing images of women in magazines in the most simplest form (as seen in Figure 1) and while doing this I used the phrase "The Outline of beauty", I started to question whether this was the outline of beauty, because beauty is measured by physical aspects rather than what's within.
I created two layers on top of the images, one layer has sections such as the hair, eyes etc. blocked in with one colour, whilst the top layer is just a simple outline of the original image. This is just the start of my experimentation, let's see where it's going to take me.
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