random grouchiness

[ratcreature]

I'm beginning to feel oddly understanding about the stupid "sex kitten" poses female characters are so often stuck with on covers and such. It's not that I'm getting fond of the sexism, but it is frelling hard to come up with engaging poses when you just want to draw some character, portrait-like I mean rather than some scene with an inherent action. And while the message isn't great, at least the stripper body language says something rather than having the character stand around dumbly, looking very boring.

How do people who are good at portraits figure out how to arrange the character? I totally fail at this. My attempts always look stiff or stupid or both.

Comments

[astridv]

Hey, I found that sketch I was talking about: http://pics.livejournal.com/jwaneeta/pic/0000x60y

Maybe I should just draw John Sheppard in a sex kitten pose... *sigh*

You so totally should! And I have a feeling you'd get a lot of happy viewers if you did that. :)

[ratcreature]

Yeah I suppose he would look pretty drawn say kneeling with his legs spread, the back arched and some sort of collar around his neck... You could probably even make that in-character by making the background a Wraith hiveship. *G*

[astridv]

Turnaround's fair play, eh? :P

I was reading a few French graphic novels the other day, and the heroines were important to the story, well-developed, had their own agenda... and yet, every once in a while there would be the gratuitous titts/butt shot. I wonder if those guys are even aware they're doing it, sometime.