Leg Too Tight

Leg Too Tight  

Felt Pen and Photoshop, 2019 (A still from an animation called “Amputee Undefined”)

Created and described by Sophie Kamlish. 

[felt tip drawing sounds throughout]


The illustration contains four figures, each drawn in different coloured bright felt tip pen. The background is plain pastel yellow.

On the far left, a young woman is sitting on a chair from a side-on position. 

[chair scrapes as woman sits down]

She and the chair are drawn with pink linework onto a white background. She struggling to take off her prosthetic leg, which has a blue and green fish scale pattern. 

[woman straining]

She has shoulder length hair and is wearing glasses, a long-sleeved top, ankle-length trousers and simple shoes with laces. The right leg of her trousers is rolled up to reveal her prosthetic. Her facial expression is one of grim determination, with a furrowed brow. Her hair is covering most of her face as she looks downwards towards her knee and the top of her prosthetic leg, which she is holding onto with her hands. 

[straining continues]

Opposite her, attempting to help remove the prosthetic, is a kneeling woman drawn with blue lines onto a white background. She has long hair, is wearing a long sleeved top and trousers and is on the floor gripping the bottom of the prosthetic while pulling and leaning backwards. Her mouth is open and her eyes are closed as she heaves. 

Joining the tug-of-war-like battle is a man holding onto the kneeling woman. 

[male straining joins female]

He is drawn with orange lines onto a white background, he has short hair that sticks up at the front, and he is wearing a plain t-shirt, trousers and simple shoes. He is half kneeling, with one knee and one foot on the ground. His head is thrown back and he is straining with exertion. 

[straining continues]

Finally, clutching onto the man there is a young girl drawn with purple lines onto a white background. She is wearing a stripy long-sleeved top, a skirt, ribbed socks, and shoes. Her hair is curly and in a high ponytail. She is standing up and putting in a lot of effort, bending her knees and arching her back, with her eyes screwed tightly shut and a downturned open mouth. 

[straining stops]

[leg popping off]

[felt tips fade out]