Flipped Upside Down Image of a Underwear Figure

Dear Polyvios, you know I always have problems deciphering your paintings.

My first impression is a lot of broad, chaotic looking lines in strange colours with little contrast.

Then, when I look closer, sure, there are darker, cleaner lines underneath, a hip, a belly, a pair of legs from the side, with one leg raised slightly ahead to step forward.

I am trying to estimate how accurate they are anatomically, but then the scale of the lines and their function become unclear. Is this line the front of a lean thigh that stretches back, or the border of a shadowshape indicating a muscle on a fat thigh? Are you even sure about that?

I think, there is certainly aesthetic value in the contrast between your earnest work, and the ambivalence of your results, but not one, that reveals itself at a first glance to a conventional spectator like me. Looking through more of your works, I repeatedly discover lines and curves that almost hit convention, but it takes a moment to discover them, on some works way more than a moment, and some seem to be just random energy through and through.

I am personally a big fan of easily consumable bubble gum culture, which your art certainly isn't. Which isn't necessarily a drawback. If I imagine your works not on an online page, where I expect a quick rush of endorphine from quickly decoding your intended message, but in a frame on a wall, a painting that hangs forever and is seen repeatedly forever, I can imagine that your way of drawing may keep its interest and mystique far longer, and prevent the viewer from easily getting bored with it.

What you could do to improve, I got no clue. Maybe my idea of improvement does not even apply to what you do, as my urge is to try to push you to be more conventional, which you just clearly aren't.

Nicest job on your scribbliest poses, Polyvios, but I'm thinking that the poses and shapes are getting on the right track, and therefore, it's still too scribbliest to me yet. How would you like to try this: First you draw this upside down, then you photograph it right side up?

So that you get a more recognizable symbol of the figure. My hat's off to you.