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So back in high school in the traditional art class they had a lot of paintings and recreations of comic panels on the wall. One of these was the recreation of a panel from Enki Bilal's graphic novel La Femme piège ("La Donna Trappola", the trap-woman in italian) and it was just this out of context image of a male feet (with a cyborg prosthetic leg) and female feet standing on their tiptoes to kiss the guy.
Man, 10 years ago passed since I first stepped in that high school. In my second year I got to recreate a graphic novel panel as well, when I'll find it I'll scan it and post it here for all of you to see.

Anyway, I was reminded of that drawing, and decided to recreate something similar to that panel.
In the original the cat was black, but I oped to use a calico because its colors contrast the metallic, sterile looking environment more, and I made the nurse's outfit pink to reinforce the femininity of the figure. I also decided to make the prosthetic leg look more RoboCop-ian.

I dunno what the context is, when I was in high school and I watched that thing on the wall I imagined the story being that the guy lost his leg in some heroic act and the nurse was a fan of him, or he is showing appreciation for her after waking up and finding out he's still alive. Who's the hero, the guy who did something for the greater good, or the one who healed him and gave him a new leg?
See, this is how I work and invent stories and scene sometimes: I look into some random comic book or manga pages, and I see some bizarre or impressive thing, and then I have fun trying to make up the context around that visual.

Kinda like how Terry Gilliam talked about how he would have his work desk covered in cut out images from books and papers, and more times than none he would just look at some images causally put one above the other into a strange combination "and go: Wow, that's fantastic, let's use that! But I didn't do it. All I did was recognize it, but I didn't make it, I just had the ability to recognize something interesting and use it. And I find when we make films, this is always happening, all these patterns are always floating and the artist is the radio antenna that picks up those forms. You don't always know where they come from, you don't always understand them, but there they are and you go along with it." for example he once saw this cover for the Radio Times magazine with a samurai helmet made of computer parts and that image stuck with him and he used it in his 1985 film Brazil creating a context and meaning around a samurai with an armor made of technology.

I will eventually check out Enki Bilal's graphic novels, they're gorgeously drawn and painted.

Description
So back in high school in the traditional art class they had a lot of paintings and recreations of comic panels on the wall. One of these was the recreation of a panel from Enki Bilal's graphic novel La Femme piège ("La Donna Trappola", the trap-woman in italian) and it was just this out of context image of a male feet (with a cyborg prosthetic leg) and female feet standing on their tiptoes to kiss the guy.
Man, 10 years ago passed since I first stepped in that high school. In my second year I got to recreate a graphic novel panel as well, when I'll find it I'll scan it and post it here for all of you to see.

Anyway, I was reminded of that drawing, and decided to recreate something similar to that panel.
In the original the cat was black, but I oped to use a calico because its colors contrast the metallic, sterile looking environment more, and I made the nurse's outfit pink to reinforce the femininity of the figure. I also decided to make the prosthetic leg look more RoboCop-ian.

I dunno what the context is, when I was in high school and I watched that thing on the wall I imagined the story being that the guy lost his leg in some heroic act and the nurse was a fan of him, or he is showing appreciation for her after waking up and finding out he's still alive. Who's the hero, the guy who did something for the greater good, or the one who healed him and gave him a new leg?
See, this is how I work and invent stories and scene sometimes: I look into some random comic book or manga pages, and I see some bizarre or impressive thing, and then I have fun trying to make up the context around that visual.

Kinda like how Terry Gilliam talked about how he would have his work desk covered in cut out images from books and papers, and more times than none he would just look at some images causally put one above the other into a strange combination "and go: Wow, that's fantastic, let's use that! But I didn't do it. All I did was recognize it, but I didn't make it, I just had the ability to recognize something interesting and use it. And I find when we make films, this is always happening, all these patterns are always floating and the artist is the radio antenna that picks up those forms. You don't always know where they come from, you don't always understand them, but there they are and you go along with it." for example he once saw this cover for the Radio Times magazine with a samurai helmet made of computer parts and that image stuck with him and he used it in his 1985 film Brazil creating a context and meaning around a samurai with an armor made of technology.

I will eventually check out Enki Bilal's graphic novels, they're gorgeously drawn and painted.