A Story of You #2 Artist

Contest entry number 2 by Shay Italo…

2. Artist

I am an artist. I have been drawing all of my life, my mother claims since I was two, but I don’t believe her; she never believed that I could turn it into a career until I was in my twenties.

I have two lives, now, in my career: I have me, the freelance illustrator working for publishing companies, educational resources and magazines; then there is X (taken from X – writer of my favorite book).

X draws porn; sometimes porn, sometimes ‘erotic art’. Sometimes nude or sexy portraits of friends or lovers (theirs or mine). It’s different from drawing a model in a classroom, it’s not about the figure or the muscles or the likeness; it’s about the sex, or the sexual or the emotions that come with both.

I was young, younger than I am willing to admit, when I (like every girl) eventually came across her father’s ‘private magazines’. Like everyone, I was curious about the bodies, theirs and mine. I started sketching.

I drew a woman (from the magazine) laying in a field surrounded by gold/brown wheat and a huge blue sky. She had a stereotyped red and white checkered blanket under her, and partially wrapped around her; somehow the wind knew which parts to cover and which not to. I was envious of the photographer for having that career, where he got to capture that emotion. I had Pick-N-Save ‘toy isle’ watercolors and #2 pencils on ruled paper to work with.

I have long since lost the drawing; my father’s magazines were probably thrown out by my mother when he died. I still remember the photograph and the drawing. It was one of those life-changing things. I started drawing myself and friends, then, studying emotions and eroticism. I do not believe that I will ever stop.

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