Cop - Body image - Using Pinterest.

My main source of images has been a website called Pinterest. This is because I believe it has a range of ideals that women strive for. It is a website that is aimed for the age range of about 18-25 y/o. Even though I only really use it for research and inspiration for designs, I still find a lot of promotion of a "Healthy Body and Life Style" from other blogs on my time line.

I decided to do a lot of my visual research for my project using Pinterest. However, I almost disagree with the images that are being shown. I researched a lot into what an average body would look like.

I initially typed in "Healthy body" but it came up with a load of recipes and work out routines. So I decided to type in "Plus Size Models". Obviously, most of the women that popped up weren't plus sized.

I decided to create some initial sketches from images that were actually of plus sized models.

I mainly focused on the over all shape of the women's body type. At the time I thought it was a good idea to explore plus sized body types, however after a couple of sketches I realised that I should really focus on the average body type of a women between the ages of 18-20.

Here, I continued to explore the weight and gravity of a plus sized woman's body. Even though the direction that I was going in with these sketches was a strong one, I have decided to shift my concept from focusing on the weight side of things, and focus on the negative connotations that women feel towards certain aspects of their body.

This image was inspired by 18th century art, and the body shapes of women. I like how this sketch turned out, and it would have been a good concept to explore, by having the characters in my story have an 18th century vibe to them. However, I now want to stick with the concept of developing and bringing to light what women of 18-20 y/o feel insecure about, and how animated features express a sense of negativity with certain features.