#Personal Project #Digital Art #Tradicional Art #Adobe Photoshop #Clip Studio #Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch
"A long time ago, I wrote a poem about relationships on a post-it and, after reading "Lolita", by Vladmir Nabokov, I associated this poem to Lolita and drew a little Lolita on it. It was a poem about a suffocating relationship, where you can see the character in Lolita's shoes, and I've also made references to her romantic pair as Humbert Humbert, the narrator-character in the book. Days have passed, the poem nearly forgotten, when I began using little Lolita as an avatar in random stuff. I like doing remakes a lot, so with little Lolita it wasn't different. Made a new one, and then another, and now I have... eight? At some point I decided to make a calendar with one Lolita for every day of the year, keeping the size and the "theme", but with no hurry at all. "
"The "theme" had maybe changed at this point, the rules now being of a girl with her eyes closed thinking about something, and i asked friends for suggestions regarding the subject. Initially, I asked them as an attempt to have a more diverse variety of content and, of course, for fun challenges! But the experience was so nice that it ended up becoming cannon."
RULES: a girl with her eyes closed thinking about something; ask a friend for a theme; the size is 400x400px.
Pink Lolita with Hamburger
(A.K.A. Pink Lolita)
(A.K.A. Pink Lolita)
"Lolita Party started here with the first pink one later named as "Pink Lolita With Hamburger".
Was a simple doodle on a post-it and painted in Adobe Photoshop very softly, since I didn't want to change it much. It was made to accompany a poem about a suffocating relationship, where you see the character in place of Doloris and made reference to her romantic pair as Humbert Humbert, the narrator-character in the book "Lolita". The reason behind the thought-bubble with a hamburger is due to the fact that at one point of the story, Humbert in his eloquent thoughts made reference to himself as "Hamburger Hamburger"."
Was a simple doodle on a post-it and painted in Adobe Photoshop very softly, since I didn't want to change it much. It was made to accompany a poem about a suffocating relationship, where you see the character in place of Doloris and made reference to her romantic pair as Humbert Humbert, the narrator-character in the book "Lolita". The reason behind the thought-bubble with a hamburger is due to the fact that at one point of the story, Humbert in his eloquent thoughts made reference to himself as "Hamburger Hamburger"."
Blue Lolita with a Hat and Hamburger
(A.K.A. Blue Lolita)
(A.K.A. Blue Lolita)
"The Blue one I used as an avatar on my Steam account, a retail webplatform and game community. I put a hat on it because my gamer friends on Steam named themselves as "The Awesome Gentlemen" and used a Hat as symbol. Since then, I started using my Lolitas as an avatar in a lot of stuffs, but manly on Steam. The draws was totally made in Adobe Photoshop, but I try to maintain the scribbled style from the first one. "
Green Lolita and Hamburger
(A.K.A. Green Lolita)
(A.K.A. Green Lolita)
"I got really tired of Lolita With Hat, so I decided to made a new one. I remember saw the movie Lolita for the first time and liked a lot one of the outfits Doloris was wearing, so I tried to do something similar. The style is less scribbled and more refined, you can notice it by look at her arms, but the colors continued very simply, even with more shadows."
October 31, Orange Lolita with a Pumpkin
(A.K.A. Halloween Lolita or Orange Lolita)
(A.K.A. Halloween Lolita or Orange Lolita)
"The only Lolita with a date set, at that time I started thinking about the calendar. I like a lot Halloween, it's a funny holiday with candies, costumes and party, so why not do a Lolita to it? She is a cute corpse Bride thinking about her... pumpkin groom? Irrelevant, but it's from here that you begin to feel a difference in the traces and the beginning of a more refined thing, which was not the original intention."
Red Lolita and The Importance of the Bow in the English Wars of the Fourteenth Century
(A.K.A. Red Lolita)
(A.K.A. Red Lolita)
"Here I quit to do a really simple thing and just enjoy to try new ways to do my Lolitas. The differences are striking as you may see and I like it a lot. In true, I prefer it. It's feels more like a painting, without a lineart, and the shadings are pretty complex (like, a nose).
In this one I asked to a friend about a theme. He looked at me with a sassy smile and said "The importance of the English's Bow in XIV sec. wars" and I was "Really, man?!", but I accepted."
In this one I asked to a friend about a theme. He looked at me with a sassy smile and said "The importance of the English's Bow in XIV sec. wars" and I was "Really, man?!", but I accepted."
Warrior Lolita and The Mongol Invasion of Khwarezmia and Eastern Iran
(A.K.A. Warrior Lolita or Ghenshis Khan Lolita)
(A.K.A. Warrior Lolita or Ghenshis Khan Lolita)
"One of the most differents Lolitas of the serie, probably was from here that I decided to let it go to whatever way I end up. She is on profile, you can see an appropriate backgroung (or almost), and she have a lot of collors. That's a big difference. At that point the only theme I follow is a girl with her eyes close and thing about something.
Like the Red Lolita, I asked to another friend a theme and he said 'The Invasion of Khawarezmia' and I was like "Wat?". But different of the others, this one show me a LOT of references. Books, papers, sites and interesting points about it. As for exemple, Gengis Khan was supposedly ginger and mogol people have a high population with blue/green eyes and blond hair, different from other Asian nations."
Like the Red Lolita, I asked to another friend a theme and he said 'The Invasion of Khawarezmia' and I was like "Wat?". But different of the others, this one show me a LOT of references. Books, papers, sites and interesting points about it. As for exemple, Gengis Khan was supposedly ginger and mogol people have a high population with blue/green eyes and blond hair, different from other Asian nations."
Lolita and the Bahian Culture
(A.K.A. Bahian Lolita)
(A.K.A. Bahian Lolita)
"I like a lot this one, but I confess had more fun search about it and making the illustration that the results itself. I asked for a theme (again) to a friend, and she said "Bahian Culture". She didn't gave some reference or anything because that wasn't need, but we discussed a little the possibilities."
"Bahia, a state of Brazil, have a beautiful culture, rich in so many ways that's is difficult to think about one specific to illustrate. It's the place where the first Portuguese arrived in Brazil at 1500 and so many others historical events. In so many topics I decide to make the "Baiana do acarajé", or Bahian of Acarajé. A typical food of Bahia, those women dedicate themselves the tradition of sell Acarajé and others afro-bahian cuisine. In 2012, the Bahian of Acarajé was recognized as Intangible Heritage of Bahia. They are a strong and important identity of the Afro-Brazilian culture, seen as a typical character of the Brazilian culture in general. "
"Their clothing is Candomblé's traditional vesture and have a lot of options depending the event and date, but the most common and simple one is the "roupa de ração", which is a day-to-day clothing and the one I drew here. Candomblé is an Afro-Descendant religion formed in the 19th century in Brazil by slaves from the whole African continent. It has influences of diverse African religions and with the Catholicism at some point."
"My "Lolita" is thinking about Acarajé and I try to bring the ocean and palm trees in the background since Bahia is a litoral state. The colors a very bright by influences of the afro-descend culture, which is colorful at itself. And the design of the whole picture is pretty simple because I felt it wasn't need to make something more elaborate as the Warrion Lolita or the Red Lolita."
Lolita and the censorship against the book
(A.K.A Lolita Fahrenheit)
(A.K.A Lolita Fahrenheit)
"Until now, the most different! Let talk about the piece first and then it meaning: We have dynamics lines, a very bright color and a second person in the framework. Lolita is not in the center of the image, I could say the person in the background is the main focus. Her balloon is not about something she desire or need, but rather about fright! The hole piece was draw in paper and digitally colored, I decide to keep the aspect of the paper because of the theme. There some influence of Brazilian educational books of ethics and morals, probably from the 40's. But I came to the conclusion that this influence came through osmosis rather than something appropriately planned with that subject in mind. Use a different program too: Clip Studio. Until now, I used Adobe Photoshop."
"It's have a important change that influence all past and future pieces: it sizes! Lolita Fahrenheit is 400x400. I decide to make a box framework so I can have more space, can publish it on site with limit size and in general it's better to work with a precise symmetry. So I edit every single Lolita so far. Discovery some doesn't have their editing files, which is a pity."
"Now, about the theme itself. At this point ask a friend for a theme became tradition, so the friend of this one suggest something about the censorship about books. She didn't say something specific or point at some direction, but that was enough for me to think about Fahrenheit 451, the book and the film."
Quoting Wikipedia: "Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury published in 1953. (...) The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. (...) The title refers to the temperature that Bradbury asserted to be the auto ignition temperature of paper. (...)The novel has been the subject of interpretations focusing on the historical role of book burning in suppressing dissenting ideas."
"My graduation at college is Library Science, so book it's a important object in my day-to-day. Not that Library Science only handle with books, that's a misunderstanding. It's paradigm has changed in recent years: it's works with information, and information specifically to the user, but the base of Library Science, in it History and even nowadays is the book."
"In the year of 2016 we have some important discussed about the rights of Hitler's book become public domain, the year before ISIS burned more that 8 thousand rare books at the public library of Mosul, Iraq. "
"It's all about censorship."
"Books are heavy objects not because it weight, but their meaning, their words and the people living inside it. It change us, shapes your horizons, and that's what make them so danger. Books are tools to bring information, and at the same time information give freedom it gives power."
"At my college we had a classe calls History of Books and Libraries, but even the professor plays around say it should be call History of the Destruction of Books and Libraries, because that's all about it. We learn that books are symbol of power: if you want to control power, overtake it or destroy it, eventually it will lend you to books."
"It's a cycle."