Strangetown extras: Double dose of Beau spoilers

[strangetomato]

I've been picking away at the next update (Yeah momentum!), and I'm seriously tempted to run in here and show off every little thing before I post it. I'm not going to do that, but it's so tempting when there are cute sims doing ridiculous things. I am, however, going to share a couple of things I made in Photoshop for the chapter, both involving Beau. If you'd rather wait to see it in the chapter, just ignore this.






First, a tee for Beau:



This is the main reason I even made those shirts. The project was called "Beau's pink tee" in my project folder.

This is when he meets Tank. You can just imagine what Tank's thinking, right?

Then there's this little "masterpiece":




Lucy will be painting this in the art studio.

That would be Beau posing as St. Sebastian, for obvious symbolic reasons. (Anything longer than it is wide is a phallus in Art History, don't you know.)

Slightly religious for my sim world, but it's hard to conceive of an art class without some religious imagery. Take Renaissance art, for example. I've always loved saint imagery too, and I did a photo project based on it when I was in art school (like this, using friends as family posed as modern-day interpretations of iconic saints).






 

Comments

[muslemura.livejournal.com]

Interpreting images (paintings, movies, what have you) is very satisfying - I pretty much spent all my years at Uni doing just that (still not too good at it though *LOL*). Using different variations of post-structuralism (psychoanalysis, for instance) to interpret images (and stories) is a bit iffy where I come from but MAN is it fun!! (And has, of course, been very very important - what would film studies be without it?)

Ahem, I'll stop now. My point was the same as yours: interpreting visual language can be a lot of FUN :)