Emojis have become a big part of our culture and it makes sense that they must slowly creep into the world of art beyond just hanging about in pop culture and chats.
So…
Here I have played with the emojis of eggplants and a peach. I stylized it after Edvard Munch’s most know work in pop culture which is The Scream. I made sure that the peach is eye catching by making it the light of the image, but I moved the light source so that in radiated onto the whole scene, and that made my light the focus of light as well. No light emanates from the light, but instead onto it. Two Eggplants, one on each side, the peach the focus of attention in the scene, one eggplant is closest to the viewer (you) so that there is no doubt of what you see. Subtle play with colors makes it appear more eggplants are waiting in the scene, but out of view.
Why make this? I had already wanted to make something eggplant emoji related, but had no good reason. I have been working on a lot of graphic illustrations for T-Shirts for a website of late, and I thought I could make it as a T-shirt design, but in a very graphic cartoony style. I did so, but it was kinda a flop of a design. It looked more like a gay male targeted image, and that wasn’t the demographic I was shooting for. I figured I should reverse engineer my idea. So… I created this from that. Then I created a graphic cartoonish version from this for the shirts. From cartoons, to this, to a nice T-shirt graphic of a naughty nature featuring the eggplants and peach for the innuendos.
You can get Prints of this art HERE.
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