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The Diet Machine by ~comethime:iconcomethime:

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©2008-2009 ~comethime
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Submitted: May 16, 2008
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Another painting I did for my Independent Study last semester.

This actually has a point to it, gasp. When I was in middle school/high school I was put through the obsessive dieting trend thing, so I have issues with obsessive dieting for the purposes of being "attractive." I feel that when someone caves into the pressure to do that and focuses on dieting so much, to the point that it becomes their life, they are robbed of and miss out on a lot of other, much more fun and useful things they could have done with their time and their life. So this is about that, depicted through a woman attached to a diet machine. The machine is supposed to be sucking her life out of her, symbolized by all the things she missed.

And that's that :)

Photo taken by my llady :iconladydragontear:
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*Taigan:iconTaigan: May 16, 2008, 12:49:54 PM
Cool! Not sure I would have gotten what was going on without your description, but it certainly conveys the idea of "DO NOT WANT!"

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~MrBeam:iconMrBeam: May 16, 2008, 12:51:32 PM
Fantastic!

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Mood: Obsessed *wubbieflower:iconwubbieflower: May 16, 2008, 1:54:10 PM
:w00t:WOOT!!!!!!!! I totally agree with the whole "dieting" thing!!! I know, I'm always complaining about being fat myself! But I'd rather ride my bike back and forth to work every day to get exercise and lose weight than starve myself. There's far too much good stuff out there to eat! I really love the way you did this, though! Not only do the colors grab you, but it's very well thought out and laid out.
~Eruanna89:iconEruanna89: May 16, 2008, 1:56:13 PM
Wow, I love this! *clear fav*
It scares me..
Only thing that quirks me, how come she still has boobs? :?

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~FuzzyNecromancer:iconFuzzyNecromancer: May 16, 2008, 2:13:47 PM
The symbolism is bold and self-explanatory. The sense of mundanity, hollow despair, and relentless exhaustion is captured well by the washed-out grimey grey and contrast with the faded but varied colors.
~FuzzyNecromancer:iconFuzzyNecromancer: May 16, 2008, 2:14:40 PM
This is also remarkable compared with your other works for its abundance of fine details and background objects. Kudos. :)
*stuffedbellylover:iconstuffedbellylover: May 16, 2008, 2:42:04 PM
Great line-work and such Rei (as always)!

And nice background story about it!

Best wishes,

Chria
~Rassilon001:iconRassilon001: May 16, 2008, 3:35:36 PM
Dramatic... even powerful... I like.

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~LadyDetarra:iconLadyDetarra: May 16, 2008, 4:04:10 PM
An amazing piece! It is very powerful.

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~Barkis1:iconBarkis1: May 16, 2008, 6:03:56 PM
Sad!

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