August 25, 2015 | Arts / Entertainment

Artist explores the sexual side of Zayn Malik

Zayn Malik may be gone from One Direction, but the former boy-bander is not forgotten. Artist Zain Curtis has found a very interesting way to celebrate Malik's new career as a solo musician.

It’s a celebration of Zayn becoming a solo artist. I’ve wanted to create something like this for a while. I didn’t know how to properly execute it until I saw that he was signed to a new label and actually was going to put out a record.

 

I wanted to do something fun and sexy with him, so being drawn in various ‘solo’ masturbation scenes seemed to piece it together for me. It parodies the shedding of the ‘cookie cutter’ image that every pop star eventually runs away from.

 

It’s exploring the sexuality of someone who maybe had to repress it, while at the same time, it was being sold as a product to audiences.