In my quest to learn more skin painting techniques i chose to paint people with the most amount of skin on show. I find conventional beauty standards boring and made worse by overly sexualised magazine covers, music videos, tv etc...
I like the juxtaposition of unconventional beauty in a space usually reserved for conventional beauty.
Large, fat, obese people...what ever you want to call them, are so much more appealing to paint and generate a level of interest for me that your average 'magazine cover' model simply doesn't.