Sheets

Last week Lauren proposed we each work on an album that the other would not normally listen to. She assigned me Electra Heart by Marina and the Diamonds which I had definitely never listened to. This one took a lot of sketching; it's about the protagonist of the album dealing with the archetypes for female pop stars and I spent a while figuring out what was interesting about the music through drawing. To me a lot of it ends up being about the creation of a pop mythology through sexualization. There is a happy insistance on casual sex to construct the pop facade. At a certain point it became clear to me there needed to be a heart shape, because as a symbol it is important to both the meesage of the album and the image of the creator.

I don't mean to try to explain the image. Especially in the context of the music, I think it stands pretty well on its own. But the thought process took most of the time on this one, and I wanted to give some sense of why I ended up focusing on what I did.

As far as making the thing, I've been using photoshop a lot on projects like this one, which can be really fun. Pretty much a key drawing that I scan and color. For the sake of variety I might show you something I used more traditional media on next week. Who knows, also maybe not.