pecorei: eschergirls: Annetta: Designing

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eschergirls:

Annetta submitted:

Designing a Character Right

I considered submitting before, but I always changed my mind. This time, I thought you guys might want to see this. It’s from an art book about Mega Man, with the artist commentary at the top. A friend sent this to me, since he knows I stalk your blog, and I thought it was nice that some people treat their characters with the respect and love they deserve, instead of objects to attract customers with.

This is very excellent. :)  I wish more comic artists/editors would think like this when it comes to character design too. :\  It’s one thing for Emma Frost to wear what she does, but not Rogue having that giant V of flesh, or every single female character being sexual, thrusting and posing in every panel, or having big butts and boobs when Ed Benes draws them, and being super skinny when Ian Churchill or Michael Turner draws them. Draw the CHARACTER, not whatever generic woman you find sexy.

Nice to know some professional artists still care about making admirable characters instead of finding a way to satisfy their repressed sexual urges and draw porn.

When a COMPUTER PROGRAM has more in the way of internal organs that HALF THE FEMALE SUPERHEROINES apparently in existence…you’re doin’ it wrong. Computer programs are supposed to provide the fantasy, not the reality.

Shame that reasonable female body types have become the fantasy, isn’t it?

Also, if you squint, you see how his art director comments about how he thinks Roll would be “embarrassed” to appear in her originally more sexy costume, and that he’d feel bad making her wear something that would make her uncomfortable. And the artist listened. I don’t know about you, but one look at that picture is enough for me to see that Roll appreciated it!

If you click on the image, it should blow up into the hi-res version.  Sorry if some people didn’t know that and so didn’t get the full story about this picture!  But yes, it wasn’t just her design that prompted me to post this, it was the caption about how it came to be.