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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I've heard of people doing this, but I have never done it. I brush before bed and in the morning... fully clothed.
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.
Why all the girly books? I'd usually be reading Stephen King (my favorite!) and eating junk food when no one was watching.
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.
The title States what woman do when no one is watching, not what woman don't want anyone to see them do.
I do this. I am always kneeling in the library. Pretty much all the books i get out are on the bottom shelf
I live in Maine. We'd eat ice cream only 2 months a year if we waited for hot weather.
briught home chicken eating cookies and cocoa. dessert first 😆
Yes, and that nail polish feels weird, tastes nasty, and peels off against your teeth. Bleah!
Oh really your just gonna leave the wine seeping into the carpet...
My legs not smushed together? Me. It's hard for me to keep my legs together since my thighs are too big.
Food took too long... eating or sleeping or being naked is the apparent theme here!
People commenting on this are so shitty. 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 "shitty" 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.
I chat on my laptop while pooping :-D
With my dog and at least 2 or 3 of my cats! lol
It's art! It depends on each persons perspective . You love the series and some find them boring, that is the beauty of art!
I brush my teeth in the shower all the time, it's so easy...
I love the expression or feeling in the face in every picture :)
Alexis, that really struck me too! These are wonderful and are getting such harsh, petty criticisms.
Yes me too!!
It's actually very enlightening. It fills gaps on men's curiousity over women. We men actually do shittier things, the kind that gets you into trouble or get you sick as if contracting the black plague. Go women!
Me too
I brush my teeth in the shower too!
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Bitch SHUT THE FUCK UP UR MOUTH IS STILL "FUNKY " AFTER U BRUSH UR CHOPS HOE
How utterly boring.
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.
Not similar - the same. It's the artist and her friends.
Well, life IS boring. I think that was the idea. Really, if you take away selfies, Instagram, Facebook, bored panda, netflix, what do you get? Lots of free time to realize you´re bored.
Oh my god. Tiny dynamine I was only trying to point out that expecting life to be exciting at all times is unreal, much like living through the internet. And yes, I DO a lot more than what you´re so "helpfully" suggesting. And no, I don´t think these illustrations are boring, I like it that they depict moments that would ordinarily be overlooked because they´re so "normal".
Oh my god. Do you think there is nothing else to life outside of the internet? Go and volunteer at an animal sanctuary or help children at your local school. Go and walk in the countryside and admire nature. Basically, do something.
i'm very rarely bored. life is far from boring, there's never enough time. sitting at home relaxing with books, internet and pets is extremely normal, so people are disappointed. i expected something fresh or at least funny.
If you limit your exciting and meaning-giving activities to taking selfies, posting on social media, reading online magazines and watching tv series, then your life truly is boring and I am truly sorry for you :(
Yes that's what I thought of
Hey Tiny, one individual can't determine if something is art or not. Not liking a piece of art doesn't change the fact that it's art and that there are people who enjoy it. Does me not liking Picasso's art mean it's not art? No. Art is subjective; you either like it or you don't. And those who think this series is pointless, the meaning of it has gone way over your head.
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Depends on your life. This woman has spent a great deal of time and effort depicting things that are of no interest so I really see it as a massive waste of time.
It is actually great, no evil patriarchal man around, who cares about them? Women don't need man, they can use sperms from a bank, and perhaps kill the fetus if it is a male fetus. I think this will totally work.
then art is a waste of time too dude ;)
Tiny: of course this is art. It's simply not to your liking.
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This is not art.
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.