So I decided to choose a fashion editorial which I think about fairly often. There’s a girl in very regal clothing lying on the floor next to a 90’s-early 2000’s TV which has an anime girl on it. This image is a particular favourite of mine since in essence it’s a couple of my main interests – fashion and anime. Also, it’s not overly kitsch and sickly like a lot of western fashion with anime things are. I already had this image printed off for one of the drawing workshops and it never got used so I decided to use it. This was all very impulsive and I didn’t plan it at all. I used left over acrylic paint from something else I had been using and painted over the background. One I had painted over the background I placed some cutesy bear stickers near the girl. Then I decided to use some wedding stickers which I bought in the local art shop on it to make it look sparkly. I’ve really wanted to use stickers more in my work and this was a good opportunity to do so. Next I used a 6b graphite pencil to fill in the empty spaces and give shading which I’ve been using in my work recently since I like the effect of it. Once I did that I stuck some red heart stickers on the piece and tore some of them in half. After that I cut the image out and stuck it on some black paper using some “Sailor Moon” cellotape!

This was a really fun experiment for me because I try to never appropriate images since I very much like to use my own photographs, drawings etc. I’d like to try this out more in the future though.