'Meantime'

My first halfway-decent image. I still rather like it, though the lighting's very crude. The grafitti was pinched from a photo on the web, except the York City Football Club bit, but I literally put the wall together brick by brick. I had an image of a single brick on my graphics program. So I had to copy that, paste it next to another, paste it again and again... A truly fun hour or so.

A friend claimed the blond girl's breasts are rather large compared to her body mass. I don't see it myself; and anyway, my main problem with that girl was getting her skirt to cover some of her dignity. An oddity of Daz Studio skirts is that they can't handle sitting postures. If you move the hemline in line with the thighs, chances are that the whole thing will be twisted practically off the body. As it is, too much of the poor girl's buttocks are showing; but it's the best I could do.

The postures copy Edward Hopper's old trick of ensuring figures are never facing towards each other. The title, meanwhile, is lifted from a Mike Leigh film. It's the first of several 'Disaffected Youth' pictures which are part social commentary, part wish fulfilment. I was never a disaffected youth myself. I wasn't always that happy, but was always too shy to sit on street curbs shouting at people.