The Cake In The Clouds [Cina's Dream]

So here we are again. Typing about my artwork that my fellow classmates are being forced to view. However, my friends, this one is a dandy. My word that I picked from the Sorting Hat was "cake." If I remember correctly, this was also the word I suggested to be added to the hat. I didn't plan on getting a crap word like "cake" for my OWN piece. I wanted some poor art soul to have to conjure up a piece with said dessert.

That poor soul was me.

The first thing I thought was, "BEWBS!!!" Then after immaturely ranting about them for a couple of class periods, I got a sketch of this idea. After that, I needed a model to help me get the proportions of the female figure correct.

Heeeeeeere's Cina.

At first inclinations, my dear friend was to be nude. I was completely uncomfortable with this, but it's something I wanted to do for my concentration.

So I first painted a plain pink backdrop in which I then populated with "cotton candy clouds." Then came the pestering cake. I almost left it out entirely at the hope of Mrs. Glenn forgetting about the cake and thinking that "cotton candy" was my word. But alas, here be the result of my forced cake anomaly.

Then Cina was painted. At first I painted a "yellow skinned" base coat to hide the cakeness below. Then I started to shape the waist and chest as if I were creating a nude. After putting in the face and hair details (which I'm really proud of), I devised the idea of a purple drapery (color suggested by one of my female friends whom I'm forgotten the identity of) and this happened.

I'm proud. :)

Even though Cina didn't mind her being naked, I figured this would satiate both my desires of nudity and my moral standing of not painting my friend naked. So... that's all I have to say about that.