Lady Nilstria: I haven’t something in

Lady Nilstria submitted:

I haven’t submitted something in so long. :D

I think everyone sees the problems with this picture of Witchblade, farting speech bubbles not withstanding. Snake spine, hips of putty, balloon boobs, monstrous hair, and so forth.

However, I think the worst thing is the pose itself. I included a redline of what the pose would look like if just the anatomy was fixed. She’s basically just standing there, and we’ve all heard about how women’s poses don’t have any dynamism to them when they’re actually broken down. Dynamic poses are not gender exclusive. The same formula applies to everybody, so why are they in practice only applied to men? Lines of movement, camera angles, hip and shoulder angles, women need these things as much as the guys!

The colored redraw tries to take this into account. I don’t think I did particularly well (I feel out of practice having done no drawing at all during summer classes) but I think there’s actually a story behind it. I think the worst thing behind all of this is that story is sacrificed for sex, and that is a blasphemy to both the visual and written mediums.

I also get a little tired of the porn faces. :P

That redraw is a great way to make your comeback!