The message behind my work-Cierrah Kelly

                                                         The message behind my work

• My work consists of and is primarily women-centered. The reason behind it is that I'm tired of media that only focus on the male audience, with a male protagonist and female lead who's there only to feed the sexual desires of the viewers or whose only purpose is to benefit the male characters. Growing up, I wanted to watch powerful female characters, being the strong leads, just like male-centered shows. But that's rarely shown in shows, comics, and movies. Every time the lead is a woman, the main plot is about finding a husband or boyfriend and having a family. My work is a way to heal that part of me that had every feminine interest I had as a kid, which was ridiculed and heavily criticized. When I was a child, it was very popular and familiar to hate girls who loved the color pink, love dresses, and makeup. It was one thing when men were the ones criticizing, but it hurt more when it was another woman. I want my work to entail women's issues and women's rights. After many years of progress, women's rights are constantly being taken away, violence towards women is growing more, and misogyny is rampant. 
• I want to convey in my work that women are just as capable, and this shouldn't be debated. We have seen powerful women in our day-to-day lives: mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, etc… Yet, people still can't respect or understand women's issues. I want my audience to feel in touch with their femininity, men and women, and that femininity isn't something to be ashamed about or something that's sexual. I know my work will receive mixed reactions; there will be those who will feel empowered to be in touch with their femininity, those who will perceive it as misandry, and those who will oversexualize my work. My work would accomplish healing those who have an unhealthy relationship with the feminine side and can feel vindicated for dressing femininely, wearing makeup, and loving the color pink again.

  

Color lead on paper

This piece is supposed to represent a god that is called “Godmother”. It was part of a concept of a series I wanted to do for the BFA.

Graphite on paper

This piece was a more detail masks of the “Godmother” piece from before. She is reciting a poem in Latin about her “daughters” she couldn’t save.

Homage Parody

This was a homage parody digital piece from last semester. I was learning digital illustration during the time. The piece is referencing “Ivan The Terrible and His Son” but with the characters Kuromi and MyMeldoy.

Oirginal Character Digital 

This was another piece from last semester where the task was to make original characters for an assignment. 

Robot Illustration Digital 

This was part of a digital illustration where the task was that we had to draw robots, so I created a older robot training another robot is who a kid to defend herself.