scloutier submitted:
I have made it all make sense.
We now have, clockwise from top left:
1) the scenario going on between the aliens depicted by the original artist, which was not actually a fight scene at all, but a desperate attempt to cooperate despite the mind-controlling tentacle creatures attached to their heads.2) the original art.
3) what a fight scene between Artemis and Diana might look like, on a cliff in the moonlight in a temperate summer rainforest.
4) a context in which the poses of the aliens make sense for human characters.
I love all of this.
“YOU take the disco-ball wand!” OMG, LOL’ING FOREVER HERE.
Hey everybody!
So, I decided to turn my attentions to two particular illustrations of Power Girl that were bugging the fuck out of me. One is by the late Michael Turner, and the other is by Joe Benitez. The latter is not safe for work, and certainly NOT SAFE FOR ANATOMY! Let’s get started, eh?
Power Girl by Michael Turner.
This one has given me the shits for years. Her boobs are most of the way down her ribcage, her hips are disjointed and pointing in the wrong direction, her boobs are sort of bolted-on half-spheres that have no relation to the rest of her anatomy, her arms are weird - need I go on? Here’s my correction:
Now, I didn’t quite go down as far as the illustration by Turner does. It was too late by the time I realised my spacing error. Anyway!
- Head at natural angle
- Neck no longer giraffian
- Breasts somewhat contained by firm costume
- Yeah, they’re huge, but they sit in a more reasonable place now
- Shoulder width in proportion to head and chest size
- Arm muscles make sense
Power Girl by Joe Benitez
I’ve been working on this one for some time cause, dudes. Dudes. It is HEINOUS. It is BAD. I don’t even have the words to describe how terrible it is:
What the hell am I even seeing here? What the ever-lovin’ Christ is this shit? You know what my brain did to this picture after I saw it? I’ll show you:
Sorry about the shitty animation, but I’m not very good with the programme I used.
It’s just - SO BAD. So, SO BAD. Let’s look at why.
- Sweet Lord, those terrible breasts.
- Kara Long TORSO, Kara Long TORSO, the heroine that comes in PIECES!
- Short legs!
- Long arms!
- Broken back!
- No neck!
Correction time!
Forgive the Super Diamond pasties, but I didn’t want to dishonour poor Power Girl by drawing her naked. The pasties let you know where I would put things, anyhow. Corrections:
- I changed the angle to illustrate where the boobs would more rightly sit
- The boob size appears smaller, but they are still a double D cup. Most of them would sit under the arms. Most bras these days push boobs up to look bigger. If Power Girl were without support, her boobs would probably sit about there. You don’t want them bigger than that when you’re a woman of action.
- Arms at a more reasonable angle. The legs in the original are short, hence why the hands could fit where they do. In reality, the hands would either need to be on top of the knee (to push the breasts together) or next to her knees (to touch the floor). You can’t do both (as I illustrate in figures A and B below).
- Fixed nipple position.
- Fixed the wedge-foot.
Below are two additional illustrations. The first is the figures A and B that I promised, and the second is an approximation of what Benitez’s Power Girl would look like standing up straight. Pretty ridiculous, huh?
(Either bent forward and hands down, or up straight with hands on knees - can’t have both!)
Now, if you can’t see what’s wrong with that last image, I can’t help you.
Pelvis? What pelvis?
This is a special Greg Land-specific category. My hatred of the way this man draws pelvises and hips is deep, fiery and eternal. What’s worse is that he deliberately does it, and he has no actual excuse of fucking up the way he does: He traces ALL his shit these days. No, those impossible pelvises are a DELIBERATE choice on his part, and that makes me angrier than words could possibly say.
He inflates the breast sizes and narrows the hips until they’re grotesque mockeries of real women’s anatomy. He calls it “making them more slender and athletic” or some shit, but I call it, “I’m not an ass man so I’m going to do everything I can to emphasise the fact that these chicks have giant tits.”
Here’s an image of an actual slender, athletic woman:
OH HELLO, SON, I THINK I SEE SOME FUCKING HIPS THERE. You can see the point where the top of the femur juts against the flesh. Even in this tiny, lithe little gymnast, the bones remain. You cannot lose bone. Humanity needs the wide bones in that part of the body for procreation, they are in our genetics. So I’m not sure what Mr. Land is trying to do with that excuse, cause it doesn’t go along with reality.
So, my anatomical break-down of a typical Land image and then my correction:
Okay, so, going in to this picture, I thought I’d just have to widen the hips or something. Then I started the anatomical overlay, and I realised there was SO MUCH wrong with this image. I had to actually give up on fixing his image and start again, cause it was SO WRONG. The ribcage is impossibly narrow, and I know that it isn’t the focus of this series of articles, but it’s so egregious and horrible that I have top stop and say: WILL YOU LOOK AT THAT FUCKERY?
So seriously, I had to give up on the sketch-over, because the anatomy points were all, horrendously, terribly WRONG, and start again. I got this:
As you can see, I tried to make her actually look Asian. Ended up looking like Trini from the Power Rangers, but she fucking kicked ass so that’s okay. She’s Asian both sides because, well, I can’t afford to buy comics, so I’ve lost track of what race she is in the purple aerobics instructor kit. I can draw them, and I save up for the really good special runs (Wolverine: Origin) and the indie comics that I like (Platinum Grit) but that’s it. Being a broke artist on a disability pension, I’m sadly unable to indulge my comic thing as much as I’d like.
To the actual anatomy - holy shit, where to start?
- Fixed the hips. They were far too small.
- Gave the thighs some muscle.
- Made the head bigger to match boobs and shoulders.
- Widened the ribcage because HOLY SHIT, YO.
- Added muscle mass here and there.
- Actually drew the costume instead of making it look like body paint.
- Changed her hair cause it was too impractical.
That took way longer than I had anticipated. Sorry about the delay, folks!
Next time: Imperial Walkers.
A brilliant post and a fantastic correction.
Truly, Greg Land loathes hips.
Aaaaand since you can’t defeat one hate group by giving a platform to another, here’s the Southern Poverty Law Center’s contact page. Let them know what you think about them quoting a bigot in defense of their (correct) characterization of MRA groups as hate groups.
Go ahead and let them know that Cathy’s affiliations belong in that category, too, for all of the anti-trans bile they spread.
(For those who don’t know, Cathy Brennan has harassed trans tumblr users under the name bugbrennan [not linking, don’t want to lead any traffic that way] and also generally posts anti-trans pieces on multiple blogging outlets. She deserves no platform regarding any issue, let alone combating hatred.)
Andrea Riseborough as Angelica Fanshawe in The Devil’s Whore (2008).
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Pro-choicers, as imagined by Pro-Lifers.
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“The private sector grew faster in the first three years of the Obama administration than it did in three of the previous five administrations.” —
The New York Times explains that private sector growth is not the source of sluggish job gains in the U.S. The problem is in the public sector: government jobs have been cut at local, state, and federal levels.
So the next time you hear the phrase “big government,” know two things: (1) It’s a lie, and (2) Some government cuts are part of the problem.
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Slogan that’s been rattling around my mind for the past month or so.
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Jimmy Kimmel absolutely nailed it last night at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
