Part of a series I'm doing for my gallery show in June. It's called "Still Shamed - Why the Fight Must Go On."

I had the idea for these because I have gained a little weight recently and its showing up mostly around my chin, which is bothering me because I don't like how it looks, even though I am proud of my size. I know I'm not the only proud BBW who feels this way about some part of their body, so I decided to bring these feelings to light in a series of drawings. In each drawing, the woman is wearing a charm of a bigger female figure (based on some Goddess imagery, actually) to signify that she is generally proud of her body, but she is covering the part she still feels insecure about with her hands.

I'm not sure how many of these I'm going to do, but I'm definitely having fun with them, and I hope they are well recieved at the show.