How would you wear it?
How would you wear it? is a digital drawing showcasing different types of people wearing similar style clothes. The work is to encourage people of different ethnicities and different body types to be able to see themselves as these characters and feel confident in their own skin. It is also a piece for people to connect to others by seeing characters who do not look like them and to consider the differences of other people.
SKETCHES
For five weeks I created five characters that wore an outfit inspired by ones I wear on a daily. The constraints of this project were that each character MUST be different, Clothes are a variation of the original with matching colors, and that it has to be five characters per week.
FINAL COLORED CHARACTERS
The final product was five 11x17 inch sheets, all with the different styled characters. Those sheets were then put into a long panorama that ended up being 85 inches long. Within these sheets you can see each characters unique traits playing with the clothes, such as a character’s skin or hair color, or how each body type is portrayed in the different fabrics.
RANDOMIZED PANORAMA
Finally, I rearranged all the characters to be next to characters from different sheets. This is to achieve how each character’s presence looks compared to the person next to them and how different everyone really is. This project is to push for how diversity and inclusivity is important and that everyone is unique and special in their own way. I hope that people found at least one person from this twenty-five character lineup to resonate with.