Anyway, enough porn. Back to GENDER ISSUES.
Geez, the second wind of notes was bigger than the first.
And today I learned I can’t draw Amber in my style without her looking like I tried to draw myself
I really need to learn how to draw more variety in faces
wooooo
THIS. I’ve loved David Willis for this Shortpacked for forever, but Kevin Bolk always puts up a good fight as well, and I wanted to express my appreciation to both I always like seeing male artists take a stand against female objectification in comics. It needs to be an outside perspective, unfortunately, to get the point across sometimes - because as soon as a woman like myself comments on the problem all we hear in response is “you’re just jealous” and “you know you want to look like that.” Actually, I don’t. I know people who are constantly being belittled for their abilities because they’re drop dead gorgeous or they have huge breasts.
I’m not saying there aren’t women out there who want this - but let’s be honest… it’s mostly men who want this kind of woman. It is not completely their fault either - they’re constantly bombarded by media and society that tells them this is what a woman should look like, just as much as women are. Of course both men and women have a skewed perspective with this influence.
Well I have news for you - BOOBS ARE FAT. MOST WOMEN WITH HUGE BREASTS DO NOT HAVE TINY DELICATE WAISTS. That small percentage of women who do have tiny waists and huge breasts almost always have serious health issues due to so much weight on a frame that can’t support it.
But the real problem is not so much how they look - as others have pointed out, men are portrayed as strong muscled hunks in comics and other media as well (although I have to point to Shortpacked here, because they argue so much better than I ever could on that point). My major problem as far as objectification is the lack of women with distinct personalities. As a comics and anime fan, I’m constantly running up against females that are not well rounded characters. It’s like people don’t know how to write female characters. Women only use their bodies to get what they want, but beyond their bodies and sex appeal their characters always seem empty and lacking.
All I want is for female characters to have more power than the “power” they gain using their bodies to manipulate. This stems way back to the antifeminist church fathers’ writings way back in medieval times; they used to attack women for the same thing. I feel we should be past that at this point in time, don’t you?
/TLDR.
Kevin Bolk managed three sets of both boobs and butts! He is a wizard!
To not disappoint David Willis
Here’s a small part of the Homestuck/Dumbing of Age sexy fanfiction.
NSFW? I don’t know, never done this sort of thing before.
yessss
Can I just say how much I will always love this couple? Perfect, perfect, perfect couple.
It’s like David Willis looked into my heart one day, and then drew all the things that I love into two people and made those two people fall in love and have a baby.
All I can really say to that is: Damn you, Willis.
Aw, shucks.
I decided already that I hated the new Amber art, so I drew a new one. I’m pretty fickle. This one has more personality in it, rather than Amber standing around holding a prop.
I also drew a new Walky and Dina, which I’ll post some time later today.
Speaking of Amber and Billie, while putting together my Dumbing of Age book, I realized I should probably have stock images of my characters that aren’t nearly two years old now. Some of that 2010 art is looking kinda dated to me!
So have some new Amber and Billie art (middle) and the original drawings (outsides).
They are built very similarly. Maybe I should have drawn one of them and one of the more slender characters, just so everyone doesn’t take a look at this and assume I’m unilaterally plumping up everybody’s boobs.
