Artist Creates Honest Illustrations Showing What Women Do When No One Is Watching
In April 2015, Little Rock Illustrator Sally Nixon started an art project called "365" in which she had to create one illustration per day for a whole year. As it was not that easy to think of new drawing ideas so frequently, Sally started to search for inspiration in her own life and simple routine moments that she's going through. The artist wanted to show the natural side of real women besides staged Instagram selfies, Snapchat filters, and all the other forms of social media that rule our world.
The women of Nixon's beautiful drawings are captured doing their casual everyday life things like taking a shower, eating in bed, brushing their teeth, walking around the house without pants, and having lazy TV time with their friends. In other words - women when nobody's watching.
"They don’t have perfect bodies or perfect habits and that makes them relatable,” she explains to TL Andrews. “The scenes I create around them are everyday places: a bathroom, a restaurant, a messy bedroom. However, my goal with each drawing is to elevate the seemingly mundane girl problems to something special.”
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The negative comments are an indication of immature jealousy. Stop hating on this wonderful artist and try doing something in your own life that merits someone writing an article about YOU and your accomplishments...
I love it! The patterns, colors and lines. I love it when their boobs sag and their bellies fold. I just love it ! What pen did the artist used for colouring?
They don't, they're just doing average, every day things.
Load More Replies...I've heard of people doing this, but I have never done it. I brush before bed and in the morning... fully clothed.
I brush while my conditioner is doing its thing.
Load More Replies...I brush my teeth in the shower at night, before going to bed. I thought I was alone!
My house is really old, and we had a window in the shower. We just put an adhesive film on it to keep anyone from being able to see in.
I do sometimes. I feel like I get a better toothpaste lather because I'm not worried about getting toothpaste on my clothes. And it saves time. Also, I've seen lots of windows in showers. Usually old homes.
It's for ventilation. To keep air in and avoid mold build up.
Load More Replies...I brush my teeth in the shower.. :) someting refreshing about being entirely clean..:)
Doesn't have to be. Our lives are not always exciting.
Load More Replies...Same. Maybe if she was surrounded by food wrappers, eating a family size tub of ice cream, with masses of tangles in her hair, and there was a clock on the wall reading 2pm, one might be a little more reluctant to show the world.
Load More Replies...Yay! Thank you, these renderings are GREAT! Super colors, composition, I'm there!
Blissful sigh -- a comfortable chair, a good light, and books to the ceiling. Who could ask for anything more?
No both! The concept is perfect ( no pun intended ) the imperfect view of how life is, all of us aren't as glamorous as we like to think we are. We all just want to not care what people think and just be happy.
I can relate to this...I enjoy reading so my living room and bedroom look a lot like this!!
I don't do it just because my kitties can't have the extra sodium from our human food (they're elderly and on a Renal cat food diet). Otherwise, who would resist those eyes and meows? Many years ago I had a kitty who was crazy about breaded cauliflower. And strawberries. :)
You do know dogs lick s**t and p**s off their genitals and a******s, right?
Everyone whinging must not wash their dishes in hot enough water to clean properly.
She should be squeezing pimples on her shoulder. That would make it more relatable.
I wish I could.say the same. Maybe one day I'll get a reduction and enjoy such freedom.
Load More Replies...It's liberating taking the bra off and takes a lot of tesnsion off...been going without a bra most of the winter ...whoo
I wonder what she's thinking -- and where she'll go after she finishes getting dressed.
Haha I do this. I sit on the bed in my stockings and look in the mirror. I think, god I got fat after having a baby. Glad something holds it all in 🙄
you must not be a mother then, of humans or fur children, YOU NEVER GET TO TOILET ALONE when you're a mother
Load More Replies...The realist part about this is the unchanged TP roll but the used rolls behind her
It's the toilet paper on the back of the toilet and NOT on the roll.
Thinking exactly the same thing here- 2 half rolls on the back of the toilet and none on the holder- typical ....
Load More Replies...My cats definitely follow me to the bathroom, its most annoying when they want to jump on my lap (not when i'm doing my business!) but the other part in this photo that rings true is not putting toilet paper on the dispenser lol
In my house it's a cat and she tries to jump in my lap while I am on the toilet.
IF that's how women look when they meet up to spend time together, then me and my friends are weird - we laugh, enjoy ourself and definately don't wear a "This is such a waste of my time" or "Honestly I will kill you, or myself in a moment" expressions.
Perhaps they are enthralled by a movie and are actually paying attention to it. It's possible they are watching the news. Maybe they are professional musicians and are listening to the Mozart piece they will be playing for Queen Elizabeth. OR ... maybe they are resting from their cotton candy-unicorns and rainbows- laughing and smiling-pillow fight. Oh, and my cat yowls like he's being killed if I shut him out of the bathroom. But I'll work on teaching that cat some respect, damn it! It's interesting to me that your only input to the art or the comments is negative--and that your profile picture face drawing has essentially the same expression as the people in the drawing.
Load More Replies...Jeah I always put my sunglasses on when Im inside watchin tv. Hahaha
Why all the girly books? I'd usually be reading Stephen King (my favorite!) and eating junk food when no one was watching.
I like this. As a person with strict parents, it was frowned upon to read anything fluffy or thrashy, so it was a guilty pleasure. Romance might be geared towards the female populace, but everyone can enjoy them. Just as everyone can enjoy a good thriller or sci-fi, even though those are geared towards males. To each, their own.
Two of the books are by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. I wouldn't consider two of the most hilarious and talented women on the planet to write "girly books."
I dont get it. What other things should she do? Can some man explain to me it, please?
I would say picking your teeth and nose or fishing your underwear out of your butt... that's what I would do when nobody's looking...
Load More Replies...Would not be reading girly books! Gotta have Stephen King or some true crime books!
I like how everyone is focusing on the tiny details Ike the "girly books" and their titles rather than sitting pantsless eating cheesy puffs whilst reading...
This would never happen b/c 1. as a fat kid, i never waste food, this is crazy to me. 2. if i put my plate on the floor, the cats would be all over it. 3. i'm never to tired to not eat.
It's not waste, it's called breakfast once she wakes up, duh!
Load More Replies..."my goal with each drawing is to elevate the seemingly mundane to something special.” Bad luck. Everything still looks painfully mundane.
Where is the dog? That plate should have been licked sparkling clean moments after being put on the floor.
Isn't this just "things people do sometimes, sometimes while alone, sometimes in company" just pictures of the mundane and I do not understand how the activities pictured are exclusive to women?
It's never implied that they are exclusive to women. And if you read the artist's description of the series, it's more like things most women wouldn't show on social media.
Load More Replies...I'm currently laying in my bed and flipping through stuff on Facebook on my phone while eating Cheetos. Most of us are always on our phone and hardly reading books .
Either her left pinky was chopped off in a cooking accident or her thumb is on the wrong side of her hand.
Accurate! Then when dry, you run your fingers under relatively warm water and the polish on the skin around the nail is easily pealed away.
I just polish at night and remove the excess in the shower in the morning.
Load More Replies...Soooo me. Except my left hand is perfectly painted and right hand looks like this
of course it's a bit much, that's why this is called an illustration
Load More Replies...The color, tone, line usage, etc are all really excellent in this one. Some of the others are equally great too.
Load More Replies...She's unaware that anyone is looking. She's not posing for social media/public gaze.
Load More Replies...She walked up all those stairs wearing her new fashionable but totally uncomfortable shoes, so she deserves a donut! (But I'll bet she has trouble putting those shoes back on!)
My dog would always curl up in the space behind my knees/legs and rest his head on my leg.
unless she was there first...then this is definately me cuddling up with my dog
Load More Replies...My dogs so small I would probably end up crushing her if I rested my head on her like that...
You've obviously never suffered a cake emergency.
Load More Replies...That hamburger is too close to her a*s for my comfort. Also, I have done this on occasion, used to worry my neighbors would look, but hey, if they do, punishment fits the crime.
We have a very open front entrance near my couch. I'd do this and someone would be at the door. Guaranteed in my case.
and most likely the mailman here or delivery guy..i never get a break with glass window doors sigh...
Load More Replies...Nope. My body's gone so badly now that even I don't want to see it 😄
I will never look at some one's couch the same way ever again!!!! nop.
hey man! whats the point ?😂girls only eat and sleep when nobody's watching? huh?
I thought the shoes were cockroaches as well lol. But once I realized they were not, this one became my favorite, by far!
It's the milk left after she's finished with her cereal!
Load More Replies...one of the benefits of living alone - cereal for dinner is quite ok ;-)
It's wine. Its cereal for dinner or a midnight snack. You can tell because it's dark outside the window.
It's wine. She's eating cereal for dinner or a midnight snack. You can tell that it's night because its dark outside the window.
most likely it is juice which is a small juice glass for breakfast...most likely a healthy bad tasting juice..haha...could be healthy cereal in the box and instead it all sits as she is downing a huge mug of coffee...if cereal then it is milk from the bottom of the bowl. 😊
Still think it's the cereal at the end of the bowl, as there's no bowl for the cereal to go in. From the look of the box, not healthy lol
Load More Replies...Oh yep me. Can't let the milk go to waste. It has that nice cereal taste😋
The title States what woman do when no one is watching, not what woman don't want anyone to see them do.
Ha! This was exactly me last night ... minus the wine add a little greenery instead.
Her place must be cold AF who puts together furniture with a fur coat on??!!
Just couldn't take the time to take off her coat after a day shopping at IKEA ... gotta assemble that table right now .....
I work at a hardware store and you would be amazed on how many woman who come in getting parts for projects
looks like me wanted to look glamourous and be warm i dressed up in my fur coat over pajamas...and baked...will never ever do it again. never attempt it! i learned the hard way after i melted a patch of faux fur opening the oven door. we can be glamourous/beautiful while creating beauty/assembling/creating things i think is the message. beauty can also be found in many forms. can be glamourous comfortable and smart all in one. i say we all give that outfit a chance. 😁
Oh my! God forbid my dad see me eat cereal! My brother will see me on my laptop! No! These were really bad.
Except again, it's not "what women don't want people to watch," but when no one (social media, as per the artist) is watching.
Load More Replies...I noticed how sunburned she's getting but not noticing because she's reading
I never wear my tights or socks this way because I hate the feeling of my toenails passing through the cloth. I wriggle them all and widen to make my foot enter the hole I create for this.
Yup, plus the way it's pictured... that's how you ruin your tights, girl... :(
Load More Replies...she buys her shoes way too small, and her socks way too long...
exactly how everyone tries and wishes each time it would just work magically despite many failed attempts and ruined pairs later..we do this before sitting down taking a deep breath and doing it the right way..if we want something done right we cannot rush through it, gotta do it the right way. 😉
Why are all their boobs so small? There are women with bigger ones, you know.
I think the perspective is just off & she is bending over in front of the wall.
Load More Replies...hand on crotch legs spread. in a dress sprawled on the chair.
I did the squat jump thing and ripped my pants in the process. Damn thighs. Haha
Load More Replies...I'm not sure she should be wearing those... they are clearly cutting off her circulation! She's blue!
I always get dressed in front of my husband otherwise I'd be late for work!
I do this. I am always kneeling in the library. Pretty much all the books i get out are on the bottom shelf
Books on the bottom are more interesting
Load More Replies...i do the same. who wants to stand up looking at stuff for so long. 😆
Her toast is burnt. I hate burnt toast, but I do love being pantless at home :)
I live in Maine. We'd eat ice cream only 2 months a year if we waited for hot weather.
I live in Canada. Northern Alberta, we drink slushies year round.
Load More Replies...yoga pants vs. ice cream and hot vs. cold and winter drab vs. spring flower fab..etc..
According to OKCupid profiles, a glass of wine is THE thing to have at ... all times.
Load More Replies...So, women eat c**p, never go to supermarket and use a lot of take away?
Once i went to hot bath tub just to be able to finish whole ice cream. Biggest shame of my life probably...
Life is too short to wast time matching socks
Load More Replies...I thought this exact thing! All she needs is some gaffa tape and she's totally been kidnapped!
Load More Replies...briught home chicken eating cookies and cocoa. dessert first 😆
I think that's coffee and dinner biscuits not cookies. At least in the US chicken always come with dinner biscuits. I personally have a coke though not coffee.
Load More Replies...Too much in a rush to snack, snacking before its even out the bags, organized and shelved away...
Yes, and that nail polish feels weird, tastes nasty, and peels off against your teeth. Bleah!
Acrylics. Can't pick the teeth at ALL. On the other hand, my fingernails no longer shatter. So there's that.
Load More Replies...I can relate to this one. My friends and I people watch like this, with RBF, not meaning to look unapproachable.
How are they sat in a cafe if (as the title says) no one is watching. Maybe that's why they look angry, because no one brought them coffee yet due to no one watching them.
I do the get it. How is making pizza something that women do when no one is looking? It's irrelevant weather it's a woman or weather some one can see it happening, it's not exactly a big shock to find out that people make pizza, and it's not ab embarrassing or private activity. So yeah, I don't get it.
Maybe reading the article with the artsit's input would help? It's not things that they think should be done when no one is looking, more like things they wouldn't go out of their say to share on social media.
Load More Replies...Low carb eating...pick all the toppings off and eat 'em. Leave that carb filled crust alone.
See the cheese grater and stuff? And all the pepperoni in her hands? They're making a pizza not picking off the toppings lol
Load More Replies...Hell yeah! My husband hates it when I do this! It renders the pizza useless! Who knew?
I'd still eat it. Then it would be a margherita, which are the best.
Load More Replies...What's with the itty-bitty titty committee of banana boobs??
Load More Replies...I'm torn between finding the textures of the walls and furniture to be very well done ... and appalled at the ugly house decor :-D
Load More Replies...Whoever took these photos has worn nail polish at least.
Load More Replies...Her legs are tanned and her upper body is pale. Usually it is the other way around.
I LOLed when "Wiggle" (Jason Derulo) started playing in my head out of nowhere! And is that a "ham-sammich" I see? 😂
The title is misleading. The point of her illustrations is to show women in their everyday lives - no filters
Load More Replies...Many do, yes. There's still unbelievable stigma that some are sensitive to.
Load More Replies...The women are doing this together so that's besides the point. Women with their friends doesn't count as being watched
Load More Replies...Eating and sleeping in our underwear seems to be mainly what the artist thinks we do!
Oh really your just gonna leave the wine seeping into the carpet...
These seem to be a response to the gender role clichés and therefore result in cliché themselves. Frankly, if I could only socialize with women that are afraid to eat in front of men, I'd never socialize because what else is casual and fun if not sharing a meal?? I've experienced it twice (where a date didn't want to eat in front of me) and it always felt bizarre. Surreal. I didn't realize this was a thing. Apparently it is. Makes me wonder about the life of this illustrator.
Load More Replies...My legs not smushed together? Me. It's hard for me to keep my legs together since my thighs are too big.
I do this when I get home. Before I can even take my shoes off I sit on my bed and just lie back for a minute with my feet dangling
I didn't see a bed here. I see a sharp cement block being sat on.
Load More Replies...Food took too long... eating or sleeping or being naked is the apparent theme here!
Because of lot of women don't like to each a bunch of junk food in front of people because people like you will point it out, regardless if they're drawings or real people.
Load More Replies...Eating... sleeping... being naked under fur coats. Busy women we are eh!! Lol
All these pics. Would be funny if not so sad. First i think 'hell, lol' but then realise how sad and lonely those women are.. or is it just me? Even relationship is not a salvation from your inner loneliness... that's it. Time to have a coconut oil coffee before it gets depressive)
My great great grandmother Etta Walker Fink had this exact couch and throw. Most of these remind me of her. Some way she had. Bossy.
So a woman eats... naked always... and being lazy? I dont think any of this captures a woman when no one is watching ....
People commenting on this are so s****y. They're just lovely little drawings showing normal women in regular life. They're not meant to be "exciting" or provocative. Just showing regular life. I loved the series. And I brush my teeth in the shower.
The "s****y" comments aren't all that abundant. I looked at them all. A few people had oddly specific complaints and some didn't like the conflation of title to every image's subject. Some people loved them and some didn't. I don't see the outrageous reaction you're referencing.
Load More Replies...If I understand correctly, this was the purpose of the series: to show the "normality" of life. Although I agree, "Nothing spectacular to see here" would fit either. Moreover, most pictures depict a rather similar type of women. What I think lacks is arduousness, curiosity, and many other positive aspirations that may well be as normal as the wish to hand out on the couch.
Load More Replies...I'ma grown up woman, and honestly, I don't run around, sit around, lay around my home naked or half nude when I'm alone. I don't like the overal image of "normal woman" that comes from this series. With each picture my distaste kept growing. Not only those aren't anything special art-wise, but the way they portrait and ordinary woman's life I find untruthful.
But she does. Do you mean you don't like how she acts and looks when she's not going out? Or do you mean you are and look different when you don't go out and all made up? I think what she means to portray is that women don't always look how they look on social media since they are almost always all dressed up nice/perfectly, perfect make up. Special pose, 300 instagram filters. And she just portrays her interpertation of how she and her friends look when they don't go out. As far as your distate and. Art is subjective. I gues you should have stopped looking after 2 pictures then. XD Art is special for the one who made it and for the ones who appreciate their art so I don't really get your comment about it's not special art-wise. Art is also not always just about the visual aspect. Sometimes it's about the story behind it and the presentation is just a vessel for it. And something it's a combination.
Load More Replies...These are truly amazing. I enjoyed each and one of them! Love your work!
This is lovely, but this is exactly what ALL people do, not only women, and only when nobody is watching.
Things women do when noone is looking: Take a bath Sit on couch/chair Lie on couch/in bed Eat/drink Wear clothes Not wear clothes Open purse I get this is supposed to be a "slice of life" but yeez, this is just...boring, because, you know, everybody does these things! Apart from a few, it's just...a picture...with nothing happening...
So the artist take on us women is all we do is eat, read, drink wine, sit around with our tit's out, sleep, and wear horrible cloths....Ummmm NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's how it was 10-15 years or more ago.. had they been recent, every pic would have had a smart phone in it and a woman staring at it.. :)
Load More Replies...People commenting on this are so s****y. They're just lovely little drawings showing normal women in regular life. They're not meant to be "exciting" or provocative. Just showing regular life. I loved the series. And I brush my teeth in the shower.
The "s****y" comments aren't all that abundant. I looked at them all. A few people had oddly specific complaints and some didn't like the conflation of title to every image's subject. Some people loved them and some didn't. I don't see the outrageous reaction you're referencing.
Load More Replies...If I understand correctly, this was the purpose of the series: to show the "normality" of life. Although I agree, "Nothing spectacular to see here" would fit either. Moreover, most pictures depict a rather similar type of women. What I think lacks is arduousness, curiosity, and many other positive aspirations that may well be as normal as the wish to hand out on the couch.
Load More Replies...I'ma grown up woman, and honestly, I don't run around, sit around, lay around my home naked or half nude when I'm alone. I don't like the overal image of "normal woman" that comes from this series. With each picture my distaste kept growing. Not only those aren't anything special art-wise, but the way they portrait and ordinary woman's life I find untruthful.
But she does. Do you mean you don't like how she acts and looks when she's not going out? Or do you mean you are and look different when you don't go out and all made up? I think what she means to portray is that women don't always look how they look on social media since they are almost always all dressed up nice/perfectly, perfect make up. Special pose, 300 instagram filters. And she just portrays her interpertation of how she and her friends look when they don't go out. As far as your distate and. Art is subjective. I gues you should have stopped looking after 2 pictures then. XD Art is special for the one who made it and for the ones who appreciate their art so I don't really get your comment about it's not special art-wise. Art is also not always just about the visual aspect. Sometimes it's about the story behind it and the presentation is just a vessel for it. And something it's a combination.
Load More Replies...These are truly amazing. I enjoyed each and one of them! Love your work!
This is lovely, but this is exactly what ALL people do, not only women, and only when nobody is watching.
Things women do when noone is looking: Take a bath Sit on couch/chair Lie on couch/in bed Eat/drink Wear clothes Not wear clothes Open purse I get this is supposed to be a "slice of life" but yeez, this is just...boring, because, you know, everybody does these things! Apart from a few, it's just...a picture...with nothing happening...
So the artist take on us women is all we do is eat, read, drink wine, sit around with our tit's out, sleep, and wear horrible cloths....Ummmm NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's how it was 10-15 years or more ago.. had they been recent, every pic would have had a smart phone in it and a woman staring at it.. :)
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