Former 15 year old nerdy boy
shorter: This would all be easier if women would understand they are simply food to be consumed by men’s desire.
nelc submitted:
I did a kinda redraw on that Japanese Star Wars cover. I just swapped Luke’s and the Redhead’s heads to see how they’d look with each other’s poses. It’s a bit messy, because of Red’s hair, both cutting it out and covering it up, and I flattened out Luke’s new chest and filled in his waist a bit. I didn’t change the poses at all, though I did tilt the heads to match their swap-mates’ old positions. It’s amazing how just a few degrees of tilt make. Red looks so much more business-like, like a Jedi even, while Luke looks kinda sexy now (he said in a gruff, masculine, completely straight way), maybe even a bit wet.
I love how just by doing this shop it really highlights the differences in the poses. And you’re right, the head tilt makes a huge difference!
I don’t know…it seems unnatural that she is wearing only one glove.
space-pioneer submitted:
I just saw the post with the X-Factor cover. I found another picture of the cover. This is apparently an original art stat from Marvel’s production department which was sold on ebay recently.
This picture was certainly censored. In the black and white pic,…
clearly nobody remembers that the plot of that issue was how Cyclop’s groin became a powerful black hole that threatened to destroy the universe. man, folks have no sense of comics history.
These girls aren’t always perfect, obedient, and proper. Sometimes they’re rebellious, outgoing, and independent. But one thing is for sure, they don’t always need to be saved.
I think this graphic perfectly demonstrates why I am so ceaselessly lukewarm about PatF.
Each of the Princesses is saying something inspirational! and looking deep, or fierce, or contemplative, or truly in the moment— and Tiana is just
a
frog.
Thanks Disney.
Tiana had good, inspirational lines while she was in human form too. This was just the choice of whoever assembled this photoset.
Yeah, why not some of the stuff she said defending her father during the scene with Dr. Facilier?
So…this is one of the villains for that comic idea. He has an elaborate back story…but all I will say is that he is a head…that is not armor, it is his robot body.
This was a team of characters I created for the Shadowline Create A Superheroine contest from a couple years back. It resulted in a comic I really enjoyed called I Hate Gallant Girl…which by chance had similarities to my idea (both featured heroes desiring to be a part of a super team and being rejected for not having the right look). So while I let the ideas gestate, they are also largely not fully realized.
On the far left is the only guy on the team. He was kind of a Green Lantern/Green Arrow pastiche. Asian and former member of the Justice League Team. In the original pitch he would have left the team, tired of the Superman like top guys crap, he left the team, ended up as Grandslam’s boyfriend.
Next to him is a teen girl (technically, she should have a costume, but I drew her as she would be introduced-a somewhat gawky teen). She is half black and half…um…well, not human. Her mother sews costumes for people with powers. Her father was an alien chameleon. He appeared as human on earth…after he had to return to his home planet, she discovered she had limited versions of his powers. She could not shape-shift, but she could blend in with her surroundings…and she naturally had green hair. Her fingers were padded, allowing her to do the who Spider-man thing and climb walls.
Grandslam is in the center. She was a bank teller who discovered a mystical amulet that gave her strength, near invulnerability and super-speed. Only she can remove it-and it seems to grant different people different abilities (there was an idea I had for a scene when she let her father wear it and he could fly. Her parents knew of her super-hero identity…her mom worried about it, but her dad thought it-and his daughter-were awesome).
Next to her, in the flashy and revealing outfit is the hero who befriends her. She is actually an alien. Her only *real* superpower is that her alien physiology is hyper-evolutionary. When on her home planet, she looks small and frail-but on any planet, her biology adapts to give her the best chance of survival. She can fly, is invulnerable and super strong only because her DNA deemed it needed. She also is beautiful for the same reason. Her costume is chosen to be as far from her secret identity as possible (very conservative). Her ship landed in India, so she is Indian in ethnicity. While I wanted to have the character be strong, likeable and independent, she was also a commentary on the excuses given for “pornification” of heroines.
The girl with the short hair has energy powers. I liked the idea of a glowing energy mask, rather than a fabric or other tangible one. She can fly by generating wings of energy. The costume is meant to evoke Kirby and the New Gods. She is also a trans woman.
Lastly, the flying woman was a character who once loved to fly…but ridicule caused her to become sheltered. For a time, when she was married she felt no care what other people thought…but once her husband died she lost confidence…but through her friendship with Grandslam grew confident in herself becoming a hero.
I actually lack names for a lot of the characters…because I never took the time to research after the contest was over, in spite of ideas continuing to occur to me regarding this little world.
This is awesome and hilarious! And I love just how ridiculous the pose looks as a real every-day poses (or even a fighting pose).
Clearly…these young ladies have proven the basis of Escher Girls to be wrong. And there is no point in going forward. ;)
(Source: maxiandapril)
