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ratcreature) wrote2006-06-28 07:10 pm
ratcreature) wrote2006-06-28 07:10 pm
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I just had to share...
This is a scan from Wizard How To Draw: Character Creation, from the chapter Super Women
WTF? That woman on the left looks freakishly disproportionate, not attractive, not even if you like larger breasts. And that thing with the ashamed body language of the normal woman left me speechless. To be fair to the book as a whole a few chapters onward in another section on female archetypes titled appropriately "Vixens" (sic!) the same approach to drawing breasts is actually mocked, so strangely enough the example "vixen" drawings have thus smaller breasts than usual for superhero comics. Go figure. Anyway, so it's not consistently advocating freakish balloon boobs.
However that in the archetype section the chapters are Super Men, Super Women, Acrobats, Costumed Vigilantes, Brutes, Vixens, Armored Villains and Sidekicks, and the only chapter with examples from both genders is the one about acrobats (by Adrian Alphona, who draws Runaways), is quite telling. I mean, talking about archetypes I kind of get why they wouldn't think of women as typical examples for brutes or even armored villains, but no sidekicks and costumed vigilantes either? *grumble*
WTF? That woman on the left looks freakishly disproportionate, not attractive, not even if you like larger breasts. And that thing with the ashamed body language of the normal woman left me speechless. To be fair to the book as a whole a few chapters onward in another section on female archetypes titled appropriately "Vixens" (sic!) the same approach to drawing breasts is actually mocked, so strangely enough the example "vixen" drawings have thus smaller breasts than usual for superhero comics. Go figure. Anyway, so it's not consistently advocating freakish balloon boobs.
However that in the archetype section the chapters are Super Men, Super Women, Acrobats, Costumed Vigilantes, Brutes, Vixens, Armored Villains and Sidekicks, and the only chapter with examples from both genders is the one about acrobats (by Adrian Alphona, who draws Runaways), is quite telling. I mean, talking about archetypes I kind of get why they wouldn't think of women as typical examples for brutes or even armored villains, but no sidekicks and costumed vigilantes either? *grumble*
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The supposed "super" "female" on the far left is nothing of the sort. Breasts like that can be achieved by only two methods (cheap plastic surgery or lousy comics art) and there is a distinct lack of female pelvis in the body depicted. Women with PCOS still have more curve to their hips than that. MEN still have more curve to their hips than that.
::uses Les Toil icon to balance the abominations above::
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This one is definitely one of the worse examples even for this series. The only consolation is that each chapter is written by someone else, so they aren't all appalling (or at least not all appalling in the same way, like, I mean there is the thing that the only obviously black character in the whole thing is in the "Brutes" chapter next to the gorilla villains...) and some drawing advice and tips are actually useful.
It's really sad that so far I haven't found a single drawing book with a focus on drawing humans (rather than landscapes or inking techniques or something) that isn't either racist or sexist or both in some way, though admittedly some are worse than others.