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ratcreature posted an excerpt from Wizard's How to Draw: Heroic Anatomy, in response to brown-betty's request for illustrations of how bizarre illustrations of women can get in comics.
And yeah, I thought we might all be able to see it clearer if we looked at it a little sideways.
And bear in mind that people who are interested in comics really do start drawing from books like this.
Notes:
1) The absolute hardest thing about all of this was trying to draw those distorted freaking poses. I'd copy the drawing, check it back against the original, and realize - shit, I accidentally straightened him out. Go back and twist him up more.
2) The weirdest thing was trying to draw a female superhero you wouldn't want to fuck. Take a look at the original picture of Trenin. No way is that guy designed to be a guy anyone would want to fuck. Male superheroes don't have to be. Who would want to fuck The Thing or The Hulk? But all female superheroes have to be fuckable at all times in all poses. And when I say female superheroes, I mean pretty much every woman in comics except maybe for Aunt May.
And I don't think I actually got it right. I think Trena is still a little too hot. It was tricky because I wanted to make her clearly still a woman while being way more bulked-up than women get.
3) I considered switching the guys into stereotypically masculine poses instead of stereotypically feminine ones, but decided that the point was that those poses are no more natural to us than they are to you, guys. We have to be carefully taught. And they're just as ridiculous on us.
4) I don't care if you're Angelina bloody Jolie; chewing on your own hair is not sexy, it's a nervous disorder and it makes you look like you're covered in your own spittle. This is not going to appeal to anyone but a furry.
5) I think "It's the subtleties of this piece that make it sexy," was my favorite double-plus botch on the clue roll; followed closely by the caption "Don't feel like you need to draw a butt shot on every page to help portray sex appeal," next to a picture of a naked woman from the back, and the text about making exaggerated superheroes believable above the drawing of the guy who looks like he's being attacked by tumors.
6) For some reason anatomy books never fully explore the groin. The breasts, yes. Long, detailed, loving explorations of the breasts. The groin, not so much. I ended up going to International Male for reference.
(Never, never, never Google the phrase "male groin". You think I'm saying that because I found porn, but I'm not. I was looking for porn. I found medical photos. 'Nuff said.)
7) There is very little as creepy as spending four pages talking about how to draw fetishistically oversexualized women and then signing off with "Now if you wouldn't mind, my creation and I would like a little privacy."
BTW: makesmewannadie posted a fascinating excerpt from John Berger's Ways of Seeing, which is what prodded me to do this in the first place.
(reply at DW | see
comments @ DW)
And yeah, I thought we might all be able to see it clearer if we looked at it a little sideways.
And bear in mind that people who are interested in comics really do start drawing from books like this.
Notes:
1) The absolute hardest thing about all of this was trying to draw those distorted freaking poses. I'd copy the drawing, check it back against the original, and realize - shit, I accidentally straightened him out. Go back and twist him up more.
2) The weirdest thing was trying to draw a female superhero you wouldn't want to fuck. Take a look at the original picture of Trenin. No way is that guy designed to be a guy anyone would want to fuck. Male superheroes don't have to be. Who would want to fuck The Thing or The Hulk? But all female superheroes have to be fuckable at all times in all poses. And when I say female superheroes, I mean pretty much every woman in comics except maybe for Aunt May.
And I don't think I actually got it right. I think Trena is still a little too hot. It was tricky because I wanted to make her clearly still a woman while being way more bulked-up than women get.
3) I considered switching the guys into stereotypically masculine poses instead of stereotypically feminine ones, but decided that the point was that those poses are no more natural to us than they are to you, guys. We have to be carefully taught. And they're just as ridiculous on us.
4) I don't care if you're Angelina bloody Jolie; chewing on your own hair is not sexy, it's a nervous disorder and it makes you look like you're covered in your own spittle. This is not going to appeal to anyone but a furry.
5) I think "It's the subtleties of this piece that make it sexy," was my favorite double-plus botch on the clue roll; followed closely by the caption "Don't feel like you need to draw a butt shot on every page to help portray sex appeal," next to a picture of a naked woman from the back, and the text about making exaggerated superheroes believable above the drawing of the guy who looks like he's being attacked by tumors.
6) For some reason anatomy books never fully explore the groin. The breasts, yes. Long, detailed, loving explorations of the breasts. The groin, not so much. I ended up going to International Male for reference.
(Never, never, never Google the phrase "male groin". You think I'm saying that because I found porn, but I'm not. I was looking for porn. I found medical photos. 'Nuff said.)
7) There is very little as creepy as spending four pages talking about how to draw fetishistically oversexualized women and then signing off with "Now if you wouldn't mind, my creation and I would like a little privacy."
BTW: makesmewannadie posted a fascinating excerpt from John Berger's Ways of Seeing, which is what prodded me to do this in the first place.
(reply at DW | see
comments @ DW)