LJ Idol: No Comment

[sinnamongirl]

Comments

[j0ydivided]

Oh, I like this.

(As a side note, you might want to include a text description of what your entry is, since there's at least a couple of visually-impaired people playing, and they won't be able to read it if you don't.)

[sinnamongirl]

Thank you! Both for the compliment and the suggestion, I'll put that into effect!

[favoritebean]

Your portrait is lovely. I'm so in awe.

Thanks for including a transcription below.

[sinnamongirl]

Oh gosh thanks :) *blushes* I'd always meant to go put a lot more detail like wrinkles and fat rolls in it, then liked it as-is so just left it.

[rayaso]

That is a wonderful drawing. If I were to draw a picture of myself nude, it would look pretty much like a picture of myself clothed. That's the virtue of stick figures. It was a very interesting idea to include the text over the image. Is the text a complete quote from a magazine, or did you use various fragments which you put together?

[sinnamongirl]

Thank you! I drew it just before this breakup last year, and it was very much an.... "I feel vulnerable and sad and fat and ashamed," sort of thing, but I also like it just as it is with more objective eyes later.

The text is random fragments, so the phrases aren't original, but the arrangement is. They're all from a Guideposts magazine - which if you haven't heard of it, is a Christian sort of.... confessional/uplifting type of magazine. I had no idea what sort of text I was going to go with, so went through 3 or 4 stories and pulled those phrases out and in this very bizarre way, they fit. I had 2 or 3 more cut out that didn't fit - it would've had to be much longer to wedge them, so I went with simplicity!

[eternal_ot]

Ah! This is really creative. I liked the way you took the prompt. Good work! Loved the poem.

[sinnamongirl]

Thank you so much!! I've been trying hard with poetry, not in the sense of writing a bunch of poems, but trying to figure poetry out. One I wrote for Idol before, which people quite liked, I actually sent to a friend who's a poetry professor, and he basically said it came off like a snippet of prose which isn't so bad, but I might need to engage my emotions more. Which to me is no good because emotions are scary and hidden ;) Somehow having an image first then using words to illustrate its meaning is easier for me.

[bleodswean]

Excellent! And sad. And really well done.

[sinnamongirl]

Thank you :)